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Exploring bereaved children’s experiences of the death of a close relative and the ways they wish to be supported: an emancipatory repeated focus group study
The response of a nation and admiration for a leader - a steadfast and manageable grief?
As many around the nation mourn the death of Queen Elizabeth II, Associate Fellow of the BPS Julie Stokes OBE, who founded the charity Winston’s Wish to support children with grief, explores the country’s reaction to the Queen’s death and also reflects on her being celebrated as a strong female leader.
View result'Restraint, power and fineness' - remembering W.H.R. Rivers
04 June 2022 marks the 100th anniversary since the death of one of the original BPS founders, W.H.R. Rivers.
View resultThe psychology of collective grief
Following the sad passing of Queen Elizabeth II, many people will be grieving and feeling loss. Professor Nichola Rooney, who led the BPS’S bereavement work stream during the Covid19 pandemic, explores the concept of collective grief and national mourning.
View resultBame Augustine Nsamenang: an extraordinary thinker in global psychology
For the last of our Black History Month blogs, we feature the author of 'Human Development in Cultural Context: A Third World Perspective', Bame Augustine Nsamenang (1951-2018).
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Does television offer a safe place for LGBTQ+ voices and stories to be heard?
This LGBT+ History Month, BPS member Christina Murphy looks back on how the handling of LGBTQ+ relationships on TV shows has evolved over the years, and how that portrayal impacted on her as she tried to find her identity.
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Mental Health Awareness Week - Suicide Prevention
As part of Mental Health Awareness Week we will be publishing a number of blog articles, beginning with this piece focussed on the issue of suicide prevention.
View resultBPS sends condolences on the death of Prince Philip
09 April 2021
The British Psychological Society sends condolences on the death of Prince Philip.
- BPS updates
British Psychological Society statement on the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
08 September 2022
The British Psychological Society sends condolences on the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
- BPS updates
BPS responds to UK Covid-19 deaths exceeding 100,000
27 January 2021
More than 100,000 people have now died from Covid-19 in the UK - a devastating milestone in this pandemic.
- Health and wellbeing
Psychologist who explained death caused by ‘giving up’ to speak at BPS conference
26 April 2022
A survival psychologist believed to have found the missing link to why some people die who are otherwise fit and healthy will address a BPS conference next month.
- Violence and trauma
BPS responds to the launch of Government’s HIV Action Plan on World AIDS Day
01 December 2021
The government’s plan, released to coincide with World AIDS Day, promises to reduce infections by 80 per cent by 2025 and end infections and deaths by 2030.
- HIV and sexual health
DECP response to Ofsted school inspections reforms
12 June 2023
Our Division of Educational and Child Psychology welcomes the changes but says more needs to be done to support mental health of children and staff in schools.
- Education
BPS urges collective community responsibility to tackle Covid-19
02 November 2021
With Covid-19 cases increasing across the country, and growing pressure on the NHS heading into winter, the BPS is urging action in the community interest to keep everyone safe.
- NHS
BPS, ACP-UK and ACP joint statement on the conviction of Lucy Letby
21 August 2023
The British Psychological Society, Association of Clinical Psychologists UK and Association of Child Psychotherapists have responded to the conviction of Lucy Letby.
- BPS updates
- NHS
BPS statement on racial injustice
02 June 2020
The BPS stands in solidarity with all those who are feeling pain and expressing righteous anger about racial injustice and recommit to valuing diversity and fighting inequity.
- Equality, diversity and inclusion
Unhelpful ‘catch up’ narrative places unnecessary pressure on children
22 February 2021
'The notion that children need to catch up or are ‘behind’ at school due to the pandemic reinforces the idea that children have ‘one shot’ at their education.'
- Children, young people and families
- Education
Psychologists give their perspectives on anxiety
18 May 2023
Each year Mental Health Awareness Week shines a light on a different theme within mental health, with anxiety under the spotlight for 2023.
- BPS updates
- Clinical
- Counselling and psychotherapy
Death and dying
20 March 2020
We collect together archive links on the psychology of death, dying, loss, near-death, bereavement and grief.
- Mental health
Remaining with death
30 September 2019
Khyati Tripathi with a personal journey into death studies.
- Palliative care
Watching death
11 September 2008
BBC News have reported that doctors at 25 UK and US hospitals plan to test people’s experiences of near death.
- Brain
When death is an aphrodisiac
04 February 2011
What effect do thoughts of death have on a typical person’s desire for sex? The short answer is that it depends.
- Social and behavioural
Experiencing death to improve life
20 January 2015
Jelena Martinovic on near-death experiences and psychology in the 1960s and 70s.
- History and philosophy
How to avoid death row…
28 April 2006
Even after taking into account the nature of the murder, defendants who were perceived by jurors to be sorry and sincere were more likely to be sentenced to life imprisonment than to be sentenced to death.
- Legal, criminological and forensic
Watching death
23 September 2007
I hope that one day we will be able to watch the dying brain as easily as we can now watch the living brain, writes Dr Susan Blackmore.
- Brain
What makes for a “meaningful” death in fiction?
17 February 2021
A new study from the State University of New York looks at what makes certain fictional deaths so memorable.
- Social and behavioural
When thoughts of death turn to environmentalism
17 October 2008
Some people derive existentially important feelings of self-esteem from pro-environmental behaviour - and respond to concerns about death with concern for the natural world.
- Climate and environment
Dying a dozen deaths
28 January 2016
Our editor Jon Sutton with a non-review of The Revenant.
- Crisis, disaster and trauma
- Violence and trauma
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Complex emotional needs, overcontrol and death by suicide in older adults
Series: FPOP Bulletin: Psychology of Older People Volume: 1 Issue: 166
Date of Publication: 01-04-2024
Author(s): Luke Jordan
View Complex emotional needs, overcontrol and death by suicide in older adultsInebriation and death of women: Making sense of women’s alcohol and drug consumption in Bollywood and society
Series: Psychology of Women and Equalities Section Review Volume: 6 Issue: 1
Date of Publication: 01-06-2023
Author(s): Sonia Soans
View Inebriation and death of women: Making sense of women’s alcohol and drug consumption in Bollywood and societyThe big discussion – dementia, death and dying
Series: FPOP Bulletin: Psychology of Older People Volume: 1 Issue: 160
Date of Publication: 01-10-2022
Author(s): Catherine Wood
View The big discussion – dementia, death and dyingThanatotherapy: How psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy and the near-death experience can mutually benefit one another
Series: Psychotherapy Section Review Volume: 1 Issue: 67
Date of Publication: 01-01-2022
Author(s): Pascal Michael
View Thanatotherapy: How psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy and the near-death experience can mutually benefit one anotherSummer research placement: Death anxiety
Series: Psych-Talk Volume: 1 Issue: 95
Date of Publication: 01-01-2020
Author(s): Natalie Turner
View Summer research placement: Death anxietyBecoming hope-free: Parallels between death of individuals and extinction of homo sapiens
Series: Clinical Psychology Forum Volume: 1 Issue: 317
Date of Publication: 01-05-2019
Author(s): Guy R. McPherson
View Becoming hope-free: Parallels between death of individuals and extinction of homo sapiensMental health and deaths after police contact: Why Seni’s Law is welcome, but more is needed
Series: Clinical Psychology Forum Volume: 1 Issue: 316
Date of Publication: 01-04-2019
Author(s): Reem Abu Hayyeh
View Mental health and deaths after police contact: Why Seni’s Law is welcome, but more is neededThe Inheritance: Reflections on death, visibility and community wellbeing
Series: Psychology of Sexualities Review Volume: 10 Issue: 1
Date of Publication: 01-01-2019
Author(s): Martin Milton
View The Inheritance: Reflections on death, visibility and community wellbeingDeath, Dying and Disposal 13 Conference
Series: PsyPag Quarterly Volume: 1 Issue: 107
Date of Publication: 01-06-2018
Author(s): Khyati Tripathi
View Death, Dying and Disposal 13 ConferenceCounselling psychologists’ experience of the death of a terminally ill client: An interpretative phenomenological analysis
Series: Counselling Psychology Review Volume: 33 Issue: 1
Date of Publication: 01-06-2018
Author(s): Francesca Palmieri
View Counselling psychologists’ experience of the death of a terminally ill client: An interpretative phenomenological analysisBritish and Pakistani children's understanding of death: Cultural and developmental influences
26-09-2014
- Georgia Panagiotaki
- Gavin Nobes
- Aisha Ashraf
- Herjit Aubby
The relationship between death anxiety and severity of mental illnesses
18-07-2019
- Rachel E. Menzies
- Louise Sharpe
- Ilan Dar‐Nimrod
Work, love, and death-thought accessibility: A terror management investigation
07-05-2018
- Simon McCabe
- Michael Daly
Finding death in meaninglessness: Evidence that death-thought accessibility increases in response to meaning threats
04-06-2015
- David Webber
- Rui Zhang
- Jeff Schimel
- Jamin Blatter
Death penalty decision-making: Fundamentalist beliefs and the evaluation of aggravating and mitigating circumstances
04-09-2018
- Logan A. Yelderman
- Matthew P. West
- Monica K. Miller
The development and validation of the Death Anxiety Beliefs and Behaviours Scale
08-08-2022
- Rachel E. Menzies
- Louise Sharpe
- Ilan Dar‐Nimrod
When existence is not futile: The influence of mortality salience on the longer-is-better effect
04-04-2016
- Simon McCabe
- Melissa R. Spina
- Jamie Arndt
Perceived efficacy, conscious fear of death and intentions to tan: Not all fear appeals are created equal
17-01-2013
- Douglas P. Cooper
- Jamie L. Goldenberg
- Jamie Arndt
Four and 6-year olds' biological concept of death: The case of plants
23-12-2010
- Simone P. Nguyen
- Susan A. Gelman
The coexistence of natural and supernatural explanations within and across domains and development
27-10-2016
- Justin T. A. Busch
- Rachel E. Watson‐Jones
- Cristine H. Legare
Exploring the impact on primary care mental health practitioners of the death of a patient by suicide: An IPA study
19-09-2022
- David M. Sandford
- Olivia J. Kirtley
- Richard Thwaites
- Rory C. O'Connor
Fear of death and strategies for coping with patient death among medical trainees
01-09-1991
- Jenny Firth‐Cozens
- David Field
The impact of death awareness on sizes of self-representational objects
30-10-2017
- Simon McCabe
- Kenneth E. Vail
- Jamie Arndt
An existentialist view on mortality salience effects: Personal hardiness, death-thought accessibility, and cultural worldview defence
16-12-2010
- Victor Florian
- Mario Mikulincer
- Gilad Hirschberger