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      Good Practice Guidelines to support the involvement of Service Users and Carers in Clinical Psychology Services

      These guidelines are designed to support good practice in service user and carer involvement in the work of clinical psychologists and within clinical psychology services.

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      DCP Briefing Paper No 5: Commissioning Clinical Psychology Services for older people, their families and other carers

      Information about the role and function of clinical psychologists working with older people, their families and other carers.

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      Mental Health Awareness Week - Dementia: Caring for the Carer

      Psychological research has made, and will continue to make, a significant contribution to our understanding, diagnosis and treatment of dementia.

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      Clarifying and developing the role of the EP in relation to all aspects of Parent and Carer Partnership, Advocacy and Training

      This Executive Summary of the DECP Parent Partnership Working Party Report features the principle features of the findings and recommendations for future practice, including a framework for a family partnership orientated EPS.

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      Working with autism - best practice guidelines for psychologists

      This best practice guidance is for practitioner psychologists who work with people with autism and their families and carers.

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      Commissioning Clinical Psychology services for adults with learning disabilities

      This guide aimed primarily at commissioners of services will also be useful to service providers, families, carers and people with learning disabilities.

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      Looked After Children: Improving the psychological well-being of children in the care of the local authority

      A guide for clinical psychologists working with or considering the development of psychological services for looked after children and their carers.

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      Parenting young babies whilst self isolating and social distancing

      Following recently announced restrictions for mothers due to give birth, Dr Abigail Wright offers some advice for parents and carers dealing with new babies and young children.

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      Managing exam anxiety – advice for children and parents

      With exams upon us some children might be feeling anxious about what is to come. Dr Victoria Lewis shares some advice and tips for children, young people, parents and carers at this time.

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      Psychological services within the Acute Adult Mental Health Care Pathway

      Guidelines for service providers, policy makers and decision makers.

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      Psychological dimensions of dementia

      Putting the person at the centre of care.

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      Crisis, Disaster and Trauma - Covid-19 Response

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        • Disabled carer

          Trauma and parent carers

          13 May 2024

          Parents of disabled children can experience challenges to their own mental health. Dr Joanna Griffin and Jane Steeples raise awareness of how they may also experience unrecognised trauma.

          • Children, young people and families
          • Physical Disabilities

        • Supporting parent carers

          09 March 2020

          Joanna Griffin on emotional wellbeing in parents of disabled children.

          • Children, young people and families

        • Who cares for the carers?

          09 August 2016

          Jane Smallwood with the latest in our series for budding writers.

          • Children, young people and families
        • Infant pointing a finger

          How infants affect how much their carers engage with them

          18 November 2009

          What if there’s something about some infants that leads their carers to engage with them more, thus giving them an advantage over their peers?

          • Developmental
          • Education

        • ‘I am passionate about caring for the carers’

          15 January 2019

          We speak to Fiona Dunkley, author of 'Psychosocial Support for Humanitarian Aid Workers: A Roadmap of Trauma and Critical Incident Care' (Routledge).

          • Crisis, disaster and trauma
          • Violence and trauma
        • Carers

          Protection from the stress of being a long-term carer

          08 February 2007

          Among these participants with a strong ‘couple identity’, such stressors appeared to have a far weaker effect on their mental health.

          • Health and wellbeing
          • Mental health

        • Developing a therapeutic family

          05 August 2019

          British Psychological Society’s Division of Counselling Psychology annual award for Community and Carer Involvement.

          • Counselling and psychotherapy

        • Jude Clarke 1967-2016

          15 November 2016

          British Psychological Society Division of Clinical Psychology-Scotland Service User and Carer Representative from 2010-2016.

          • BPS updates
        • Cover of The Transporters resource for autistic children

          Transported to a world of emotion

          08 February 2007

          Simon Baron-Cohen, Ofer Golan, Emma Chapman and Yael Granader describe a new aid for children with autism, and their carers.

          • Autism
        • Walking away from dementia

          ‘There was no help really, in knowing what to do about dementia’

          01 November 2022

          Lewis McQueen looks at why a gap has emerged between dementia guidelines and practice on the ground, and asks what more should be done to care for the carers.

          • Brain
          • Dementia
          • Health and wellbeing

        • ‘We are not at a place of full acceptance or equality for trans people yet’

          04 April 2019

          We hear from Robin Dundas, 2018 winner of the British Psychological Society’s Division of Counselling Psychology annual award for carer and service user involvement.

          • Sex and gender