The Psychologist, September 2015
The transition to school
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‘We all have prejudices and biases – we can all learn'
Ian Florance talks to Camilla Sanger.
Channelling strengths in young people
Tina Rae on her work as an educational and child psychologist.
Welcome to your psychology degree
Mike Aitken Deakin addresses the thousands of new undergraduates getting this issue free, urging them to enjoy the experience and get what they want out of it.
Reviews, September 2015
Books from the September issue.
Amy
The new film, directed by Asif Kapadia, reviewed.
Excursions into broader theorising
Lance Workman questions Richard Stevens on the Open University, consciousness, happiness and more.
Big picture: Learning through landscapes
Image by LTL/Malcolm Cochrane with comment from Dr Jenny Gibson (University of Cambridge).
The best choice?
Katherine Woolf, Henry Potts, Josh Stott, Chris McManus, Amanda Williams and Katrina Scior consider evidence on selection into the healthcare professions.
Why do we ‘like’ social media?
Ciarán Mc Mahon considers the psychology behind Facebook and more.
From adversity to buoyancy
Marc Smith reconceptualises academic resilience in schools.
The transition to school
Claire Hughes asks what matters and why.
Digest
The latest selection from our blog, in the September issue.
Sabrina Halliday (1955–2015)
Dennis Bromley (1924–2015)
Letters, September 2015
NEETs, street triage and transpersonal psychology, from our September issue.
New voices: Do schools need lessons on motivation?
Laura Oxley on reward and punishment in the classroom in the latest in our series for budding writers (see www.bps.org.uk/newvoices for more information).
Consent and looked-after children
Ella Rhodes reports from a discussion at the British Psychological Society’s Ethics Committee.
President’s column: August 2015
The latest offering from Professor Jamie Hacker Hughes.
The Geel question
For centuries, a little Belgian town has treated the mentally ill. Why are its medieval methods so successful? Mike Jay investigates.
One on one… with Peter Olusoga
‘I love hearing people’s stories’
Letters, September 2015
NEETs, street triage and transpersonal psychology, from our September issue.