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…

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The inaugural Northern Community Psychology Network meeting took place on the evening of Tuesday 25th February in the School of Health Studies at the University of Bradford.



Attendees included Psychologists from York, Chester and Bradford, postgraduate students from York St John University, and community practitioners.



The speakers at the event were Rich Jones of the Joshua Project (http://joshuaproject.org.uk/ ) and Suzy Russell… Read more >>

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…

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