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      Community Psychology Section: Chair's message

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      Community Psychology Section

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      Guidance for psychologists on working with community organisations

      There is widespread agreement on the need for community engagement to improve health outcomes.

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      Using Community Psychology approaches to reduce the impact of inequality through the Community Mental Health Framework

      This document is intended to support commissioners and service leads to invest effectively in the transformation of mental health services.

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      Inequalities and mental health: Overview of evidence

      This paper summarises the evidence for informed recommendations to commissioners and providers of mental health services committed to the genuine improvement of community mental health.

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      Championing the rights of the LGBTQ+ community

      For the second time in BPS history members and staff were proud to march at Pride in London earlier this month.

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      BPS seen as strong ally by the LGBTQIA+ communities – but involvement in Pride long overdue

      The BPS secured a place in London Pride on July 2 for the first time in the event’s 50-year history. Rob Agnew, a member of the Sexualities Section who worked on the bid, looks back on the day and reflects and on why it was so significant.

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      Should local communities be empowered to look after themselves?

      As the bitterly-contested election of the new leader of the Conservative party nears its end, Steve Flatt, director of the Working Conversations Group and a member of the BPS’s Political Psychology Section, turns his thoughts to leadership and argues that, in these turbulent times, there is a desperate need for a change in the nature of leadership.

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      Defence, Security, Psychology

      The following article has been provided by Darren Doyle BSc, GMBPsS, RSci on behalf of the newly approved Defence and Security Section.

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      Celebrating the LGBT+ community

      We start our coverage of LGBT+ History Month with an interview with Rob Agnew, chair of the BPS Psychology of Sexualities Section

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      Six reasons

      The member ballot for our proposed new sections will go out in April. In this blog post Martin Seager lays out six reasons to vote for a Male Psychology Section.

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      Intersections of space and identity: a personal history of LGBT+ History Month

      To continue our ongoing coverage of LGBT+ History Month we present this timely piece by Zyra Evangelista from the Psychology of Sexualities Section.

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        • Psychology in the community

          21 May 2018

          What can psychology do in communities? And what are psychologists doing? Kate Brennan-Rhodes reports from the Society's Annual Conference.

          • BPS updates

        • A festival of community psychology

          01 August 2022

          We mark the Community Psychology Festival with some archive links [now updated for 2024].

          • Community

        • Psychology for social change

          10 January 2018

          Ella Rhodes talks to Sally Zlotowitz, Chair of the British Psychological Society’s Community Psychology Section.

          • Community
        • A representation of Psyche, taken from the BPS logo

          Society, December 2010

          18 December 2010

          President’s column; new Community Psychology Section, and a call to support the formation of a Disaster, Crisis and Trauma Section; improving work–life balance; preserving our history; and psychology at the Science Museum

          • BPS updates
        • Megaphone with abstract design

          Forum, October 2009

          18 October 2009

          The narrowing focus of UK psychology; US healthcare reform; bias in testing; clinical terminology; proposal for a Community Psychology Section; and more

          • BPS updates

        • Getting involved, with a creative spirit

          24 November 2017

          Two perspectives on the annual festival of the British Psychological Society's Community Psychology Section; first from Dr Helen Molden, then Iain MacLeod.

          • Community

        • Restoring and honouring community

          11 June 2020

          Sally Zlotowitz, with thanks to Ebinehita Iyere and Rachel McKail from MAC-UK.

          • Community
        • Woman with mask offering bowl of soup at community centre

          Building partnerships with the voluntary and community sectors

          18 March 2006

          Gareth Hagger-Johnson, Jim McManus, Craig Hutchison and Meg Barker with some recommendations.

          • Community

        • Community, connection… challenges?

          17 December 2020

          The Covid-19 Select Committee explored how digital technology could be used in mental health service delivery, as well as the mental health impact of spending more time online. Ella Rhodes reports.

          • Covid
        • Vera Maren Strasburger and Klara Jurstakova

          Building empowering research communities

          03 January 2023

          ECRs as leaders can create the academia we want to work in, argue Vera Maren Straßburger and Klara Jurstakova.

          • Leadership and teamwork
          • Trainees and training
          • Work and occupational
        • London Pride 2022

          ‘We stand proudly with the global LGBTQ+ community’

          30 May 2022

          The BPS has been given a place in the London Pride parade later this year. Diversity and Inclusion Manager Neil Baker explained what it means to the Society.

          • LGBTQ+

        • New voices: Researching loyalist communities

          11 January 2016

          Patrick Flack outlines his research in Northern Ireland in the latest in our series for budding writers.

          • Social and behavioural
          • Violence and trauma