Discover how you can get your course recognised through our quality mark scheme and included in our list of approved courses. If you are an organisation delivering CPD courses and other activities, ...

Membership of the Division of Forensic Psychology is only open to members of the British Psychological Society. If you are not already a member you can join the DFP at the same time as applying for ...

Almost a third of people with major depressive disorder find that regular treatments, including anti-depressant drugs, or even electroconvulsive therapy, don't help. Now, a new year-long trial of a ...

The Psychosis and Complex Mental Health Faculty are delighted to invite you to this two-part webinar series: "What's Happening in Psychosis and Complex Mental Health?" Both events will be held online ...

I developed symptoms of long covid and ME/CFS in 2020, during my doctoral training. Rather than listen to my body, I numbed out and pushed through, determined to qualify as a clinical psychologist ...

We're all aware that jokes can serve as a distraction… they help us to think about something other than our hurt feelings, and in the short term, they can impair our memories, so we no longer remember ...

Today (28 January) the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has published new guidance which outlines the psychological support needed for people impacted by gambling harms. The ...

In November 2024, the Mental Health Bill 2024 was first introduced; a huge step forward in fixing the often unequal and unfair measures in the Mental Health Act 1983. The Bill aims to reform the 1983 ...

Welcome to our first edition of 2025, we hope you find the updates and information useful. Following a decision late last year to issue the Workforce and Training Update as a separate newsletter, this ...

I was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, moved to the Isle of Man around five-years-old, and continued my schooling there. At A-level, or AS to be precise, I chose to study psychology because it ...

The Practice Board is recruiting. The Practice Board acts as a responsive source of expertise, discusses current issues in psychological practice and engages in regular horizon scanning to proactively ...

Could simply making a promise to be honest encourage people to behave in an honest way, even when there's a temptation to lie? A recent study in Nature Human Behaviour suggests that it can — but the ...