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Post Of The Week – Saturday 31st January 2015

January 31, 2015 · by · in Attitudes To Mental Illness, Cognition And Development, Depression, Early Social Development, Eating Behaviour, Obedience, Research Methods, Treating Mental Disorders · Leave a comment

1) Morality – Story Of Now When we look at Kohlberg’s theory of moral understanding, a criticism is that in looking at how people respond to hypothetical scenarios, Kohlberg misses out a whole raft of elements in the process of making a moral choice. In recent years, Psychology has become interested in working out what […]

Post Of The Week – Saturday 29th November 2014

November 29, 2014 · by · in Addictive Behaviour, Attitudes To Mental Illness, Cognition And Development, Depression, Eating Behaviour, Learning, Neuroscience, Treating Mental Disorders · Leave a comment

1) We Don’t Do Schizophrenia But …. There has been some debate this week about a report by the British Psychological Society about psychosis and schizophrenia. It has attracted some controversy. The issues are discussed in depth and persuasively in this post from the Mental Elf here. http://www.thementalelf.net/treatment-and-prevention/medicines/antipsychotics/understanding-psychosis-and-schizophrenia-a-critique-by-laws-langford-and-huda/ If you scroll down, you can read […]

Post Of The Week – Saturday 22nd November, 2014

November 22, 2014 · by · in Attitudes To Mental Illness, Cognition And Development, Depression, Evolutionary Psychology, Learning, Memory, Neuroscience, Obedience, Treating Mental Disorders · Leave a comment

1) All In The Mind All In The Mind has started a new series. This week’s episode contained a feature on addiction and also a feature on Milgram. You can listen to it here. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04p86c8 We will use the section on addiction to start that topic: there is a link already on the Google page. […]

Post Of The Week – Thursday 22nd May

May 22, 2014 · by · in Addictive Behaviour, Attitudes To Mental Illness, Cognition And Development, Depression, Memory, Neuroscience, Research Methods, Treating Mental Disorders · 1 Comment

1) Mental Health In Adolescence I spent some tutor time recently with my Year 8 group working on adolescent health issues. We were supposed to be looking at drug use, eating disorders and self-harm. You can see the results of their work on my classroom wall. What emerged very quickly was an understanding that the […]