The Psychologist, December 2021

Dr Jon Sutton introduces the December 2021 issue.

… with the Risk Management Authority (RMA).

Carmel Jacob-Thomson with a professional and personal reflection on the words used to talk to and about Care Experienced Children and Young People.

Ella Rhodes on a UNICEF report.

Ella Rhodes reports.

Ella Rhodes reports.

Ella Rhodes reports.

Ella Rhodes with BPS award announcements.

Ed Keogh on his involvement in a public engagement project.

Kate Johnstone on 'A Show for Normal People' and 'Alma's Not Normal'.

Priya Ahmed watches the Netflix sensation, 'Squid Game'.

Dr Drusilla Joseph reviews 'Scenes from a Marriage' on Sky Atlantic.

A tribute from Deborah Page.

Hetashi Bawa and Sharon-Lin Harwood write.

The discussion continues.

Simon Gibbs comments on terminology in recent Society member communication.

Responses to Steve Taylor's cover feature from the November issue.

Early in the pandemic, there was a rapid shift in the pace of research.

A tribute from Dominic Abrams and Diane Houston.

A tribute from Diana Harcourt, Amy Slater and Chris Pawson.

'The teacher and the teenage brain', by John Coleman, is published by Routledge. Annie Brookman-Byrne asks the questions.

'I Ride Tsunami' by Arthur P. Johnson (Independent Publisher Network; £6.99), reviewed by Rosie Chandler-Wilde.

'The Painful Truth: The new science of why we hurt and how we can heal', by Monty Lyman (Bantam Press; £20), reviewed by Talia Drew.

Madeleine Pownall and Wendy Stainton Rogers share their journey in writing A Feminist Companion to Social Psychology, published by Open University Press.

Ella Rhodes spoke to visiting Professor of Occupational Health Psychology Gail Kinman (Birkbeck, University of London) and Dr Christine Grant, Deputy Head of the School of Psychological, Social and Behavioural Sciences (Coventry University), ahead of their British Psychological Society webinar on ways to make home working a success.

Emma L. Barratt hears from researchers understanding our reactions to robotics.

Uncanny Bodies (Luna Press), edited by Pippa Goldschmidt, Gill Haddow and Fadhila Mazanderani, is an anthology of papers and stories by academics and writers. Dr Clare Uytman, psychology lecturer at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, contributed to the book, and spoke to Pippa and Gill about the uncanny in life as well as the uncanny in putting the book together.

Kerenza MacLennan has worked for three and a half years as an Assistant Psychologist at Bradley Complex Care, a specialist hospital near Grimsby. She has recently enrolled on the BPS Qualification in Forensic Psychology (stage 2). Ian Florance heard about her journey so far, and what the future might hold.

We dip into the Society member database and pick out…Kelly Dunn, Psychologist and Director/ Co-owner of KEYFORT.

Lucy Huskinson explores…

Clare Uytman.

Our journalist Ella Rhodes uncovers uncanny thoughts and cognitive paradoxes…

Hannah Sherbersky is a family therapist, Co-Director of the Systemic Portfolio and lecturer at the University of Exeter. Tony Wainwright heard about her work, and her father’s book on being an apartheid prisoner.

Lauren McGregor questions whether neurodevelopmental labels overshadow a fuller picture based on formulation.