There are countless reasons to eat organic food. It is the best choice for your health and the health of the our environment. So why doesn't everyone go fair trade? There is a higher cost using organic food. It is more to produce food naturally knowning that cost is forwarded to the consumer. There are, however, things that you can do today to make the switch the signal from organic less higher priced.

Eggplant, like okra, grows almost too well. I harvested 15-20…

Camerados are a social movement to end isolation. They create space for connection. They call them Public Living Rooms. They are in Blackpool, Camden, Sheffield, Oxford and New York and Baltimore...to begin with...

I'm writing about my work with them and what it can teach us as psychologists…

Camerados are a social movement to end isolation. They create space for connection. They call them Public Living Rooms. They are in Blackpool, Camden, Sheffield, Oxford and New York and Baltimore...to begin with...

I'm writing about my work with them and what it can teach us as psychologists…

Community Psychology was at the centre of this symposium organised for the BPS Division of Clinical Psychology Annual Conference. I have attached the slides at the bottom for my talk and others will available soon for anyone who couldn't make it.

 ‘Clinical Psychologists working at the macro-level:…

Hi all,

For those of you that are interested the conference slides are now available to download for the conference at UCL on 'Clinical Psychology and Macro-Level Working' on December 16th 2016.

UCL 'Practice to Policy' Conference

Speakers include: 

Jamie Hacker Hughes: Opening address. 

Nina Browne: ‘Practice to Policy’: learning from clinical…

I'm really excited to share Owls  www.owls.org.uk

We are busy gathering and testing new ideas driven by people to find solutions to enable mental wellbeing.

Nina…

Recent films ‘Long walk to freedom’ ‘12 years a slave’ and ‘Selma’, tell stories about Black people’s struggle and resistance. These stories, although important, promote the idea that Black people have been liberated from racism through successful legal reform. These are also stories of a time so far away we can be excused for leaving our…

Hi Everyone.

I'm currently studying my Masters in Community and Critical Social Psychology at York St John. Back in March, as part of the placement in the Community module, I did some work at a place called Inkwell Arts, and since then have continued to volunteer there whilst studying and working part-time.

The reason for this is, and i am trying to refrain from cliched hyperbole, but it really is a great cause. I could go on absolute length (and indeed my dissertation next…

Dear all

A really wonderful Festival has now passed and hopefully some of you who were able to attend had a great time...

I have uploaded the Book of Abstracts (in Word format and .pdf format) below for those of you who want to know more about the sessions that were presented at the Festival.  Apologies for not putting this up on the Ning sooner - the Ning was down and unresponsive on the day before the event and by the day of the event it was all systems go!!

Now, with…

A number of community psychologists and others linked with Manchester Metro University attended the Fortaleza conference.

You can read about it on Ornette Clennon's blog, HERE

and also read a more general account of our trip to Ceará, including visits to community projects in Mark Burton's personal account…

As promised, here are the slides that Ho Law and I used on the day.

Hope they come in useful.

Best wishes

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That wasn’t the first one that he tried on. Don’t think for a second that it was the first. David would like us to think it was the first. That he just rolled out of bed, took some high power calls (with real authority), picked out a grey jumper and strolled out to the lawn to do some casual, hair-down stuff with a few world leaders. But the real scene was very…

Excuse the shameless self-publicity but members may be interested to hear about this textbook on mental health and psychology.  Aimed at undergraduates doing ‘abnormal psychology’ courses or other mental health-related courses and those training in the mental health professions, the book questions traditional reductionist approaches hidebound by categorical diagnostic classification.  In contrast to the majority of other texts, the book tries to adopt a more…

At the SCRA mid-winter meeting the Executive voted to reduce all fees for international members. SCRA also has a new International committee in an attempt to integrate a wider range of perspectives and facilitate a more global approach in orientation.



The following changes were approved and implemented.  You may wish to forward this information to students who may be interested in the global positioning of community psychology and the range of work roles available. Of particular…

the EMCCP (East Midlands Critical and Community Psychology Network) is developing it's own website.  if it could be linked to others' websites, that would be very helpful.

www.emccp.wordpress.com

with many thanks

suzanne

Hello all,

I was asked last year to write something for a European Community Psychology newsletter in response to a call for any syllabi that people may have.  Here's an attached example of one module that we have developed at Nottingham Trent University, which has created some degree of enthusiasm and interest.  

The reading list has some of the following resources listed:

Jetten et al (2012) The social cure: identity, health and well-being 

Kagan, et al (2011)…

Hello all,

Here are my slides from the workshop I gave at the BPS London Office at our AGM.  Hope it's of interest.

Best wishes to you all

Glenn

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