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Promoting Tolerance to Personal Uncertainty: An Exploratory Study of a Preventative Universal Intervention
An Exploration Of How The Secondary School Experience Contributes To Elevated Anxiety Levels For Adolescents On The Autism Spectrum
Same storm, separate boats?
The following article is a joint effort by Kathryn Scott (Director of Policy) and Saskia Perriard-Abdoh (Policy Adviser), who lead on the Psychological Government Programme.
View resultExpat anxiety
Christine Haworth-Staines provides her perspective on how things have changed for the expat community in the wake of the Brexit referendum.
View resultThe pressure of taking spot kicks
As England prepare for their quarter final clash against France in the football World Cup tomorrow, with the prospect of penalties looming should the match be drawn, Chartered BPS member Dr Greg Wood argues that how prepared players feel for a penalty shootout should not be left to chance.
View resultThe delicate dance of workforce wellbeing and psychological safety
A culture of openness and psychological safety promotes wellbeing and acts as a buffer to stress, as well as helping improve organisational effectiveness and job satisfaction.
View resultCovid-19 public resources
Eco-anxiety in children and young people: What we can do to help
Ahead of this year’s UN climate conference, which starts tomorrow, Dr Maya Gimalova and Dr Louise Edgington explore how psychology staff can help manage young people’s climate-related distress.
View resultChildren’s right to play
The paper focused on the importance of play, barriers to play, and stated our position, which was drawn from concerns about diminishing opportunities for play in the lives of child
View resultCamouflaging strategies used by girls with autism in specialist educational provisions: perspectives of girls, their parents and their educators
Psychology is responding to Covid-19
The last few weeks have been tough for everyone as we’ve had to adapt quickly to a new way of working, and I want to thank all of you who have been involved in our response.
View result“There’s a long way to go.” Educational psychologists’ perceptions of their role in supporting schools to improve outcomes for trans students.
Funding promises welcome but uncertainty over Personal Independence Payments deeply concerning, warns BPS
11 June 2024
The BPS responds to the Conservative Party's manifesto launch
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- Work and occupational
Making new traditions this Christmas - psychologists say we can adapt our festive celebrations to tackle loneliness despite Covid caution
16 December 2021
Psychologists at the BPS are encouraging people to look at building new traditions and ways of celebrating, as Covid-19 continues to cast uncertainty over traditional Christmas plans.
- Social and behavioural
British Psychological Society warns of mental health impact of Universal Credit cut
06 October 2021
The British Psychological Society has warned of devastating consequences for people’s mental health as the government presses ahead with the £20 cut to Universal Credit.
- Legal, criminological and forensic
BPS responds to six-month extension to £20 Universal Credit uplift
03 March 2021
We've responded to the announcement today in the budget that the £20 uplift to Universal Credit will be extended for six months.
- BPS updates
- Government and politics
Teachers angry about media portrayals during the pandemic
14 February 2022
Some teachers have expressed anger at how they were portrayed in the media during the pandemic in a new study published in a British Psychological Society journal.
- Education
BPS warns temporary six-month extension to universal credit could devastate mental health
02 March 2021
Psychologists have warned that the impact on people’s mental health will be devastating if the £20 uplift to Universal Credit is extended for just six months.
- BPS updates
- Mental health
High Court decision on legacy benefits claimants and Universal Credit a welcome step, says BPS
30 April 2021
The BPS is delighted that the High Court has granted legacy benefit claimants permission to challenge the Department for Work and Pensions’ decision not to increase their benefit in line with Universal Credit.
- Legal, criminological and forensic
BPS statement on the damaging mental health consequences of Rwanda deportations
21 July 2022
The BPS is gravely concerned about the damaging mental health impacts of the detention, treatment and eventual deportation of asylum seekers.
- BPS updates
BPS welcomes reversal of decision to withdraw funding for NHS Practitioner Health
16 April 2024
Evidence is clear that long term investment in staff mental health support at scale is needed.
- Government and politics
- Mental health
- Work and occupational
BPS response to research showing steep rise in depressive symptoms in children
08 August 2020
Our Division for Educational & Child Psychology has responded to the findings of research showing a steep rise in depressive symptoms among 7-12 year olds during the first lockdown
- Children, young people and families
- Education
Keynotes highlight poverty, inequalities and climate change on day two of ECP 2023
05 July 2023
The first day of presentations at the European Congress of Psychology 2023 began with the event’s first keynote speaker Professor Rusi Jaspal.
- BPS updates
Changes to member network periodicals
26 February 2021
Since the first lockdown in March 2020, we haven’t had staff on-site to carry out the necessary tasks to enable periodical printing and posting.
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The wisdom of therapist uncertainty
29 April 2024
Internationally renowned author, Maggie Jackson, tells us that developing ‘uncertainty tolerance’ in both clinician and client is key for building better outcomes.
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- Counselling and psychotherapy
- Decision making
Episode 39: Why it's worth embracing uncertainty
10 December 2024
Can facing the unknown be more beneficial than we think? Join Ella Rhodes and uncertainty expert Maggie Jackson as they explore the research in this episode of PsychCrunch.
- Crisis, disaster and trauma
- Emotion
- Mental health
Global states of uncertainty
16 June 2020
Tanya Bhavani on isolation-themed offerings from the Scottish Mental Health and Arts Festival.
- Mental health
Out of the fog of uncertainty
22 November 2019
Holly Edwards and Sarah Cassidy with advice for new Assistant Psychologists.
- Careers and professional development
Educational psychology in an age of uncertainty
18 March 2004
Irvine S. Gersch, winner of the Award for Distinguished Contributions to Professional Psychology 2002, on how to ensure that educational psychologists meet the needs of the country.
- Children, young people and families
- Education
‘This hid my shadow, my own uncertainty’
26 April 2021
Counselling Psychologist Dr Sharon O’Driscoll on feeling pressure to ‘make the known unknown’ in therapy.
- Mental health
When the veil of certainty falls
19 June 2020
Eleonore Batteux considers whether the pandemic will change our desire to see the future as predictable.
- Cognition and perception
- Covid
The ambiguous crossroad
21 May 2020
Imogen Mathews reflects on the themes and evidence underlying her artwork.
- Art and culture
- Covid
Are these uncertain times drawing us into a cycle of dogma and prejudice?
24 January 2017
When all around us feels like chaos, it’s human instinct to cling to the rocks of dogma, and woe betide anyone who tries to loosen our grip.
- Government and politics
- Social and behavioural
We all differ in our ability to cope with contradictions and paradoxes. Introducing the "aintegration" test
13 May 2016
Researchers found some evidence that older people, divorcees, the highly educated and the less religious tended to score higher on aintegration.
- Cognition and perception
Be warned: The troubling expectation of regret
12 September 2023
An exclusive extract from ‘What Makes Us Social?’, by Chris Frith and Uta Frith.
- Cognition and perception
- Decision making
- Emotion
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Being with uncertainty: A reflective account of a personal relationship with an asylum seeker/refugee
Series: Counselling Psychology Review Volume: 39 Issue: 1
Date of Publication: 01-07-2024
Author(s): David T. Morrison
View Being with uncertainty: A reflective account of a personal relationship with an asylum seeker/refugeeSitting with uncertainty to create a rich nourishment for clinicians: Developing a systemic family therapy clinic for psychosis in community adult mental health team
Series: Clinical Psychology Forum Volume: 1 Issue: 372
Date of Publication: 01-02-2024
Author(s): Jo Allen, Funmi Oshatogbe
View Sitting with uncertainty to create a rich nourishment for clinicians: Developing a systemic family therapy clinic for psychosis in community adult mental health teamFrom uncertainty as a first-year student to uncertainty in the field: What to expect and how to deal with it
Series: PsyPag Quarterly Volume: 1 Issue: 109-5
Date of Publication: 01-01-2018
Author(s): Kathryn E. Bates, Lucy Cooper, Abigail Webb
View From uncertainty as a first-year student to uncertainty in the field: What to expect and how to deal with itUncertainty and hope: Community therapeutics for the Anthropocene
Series: Clinical Psychology Forum Volume: 1 Issue: 296
Date of Publication: 01-08-2017
Author(s): Andrew Mitchell
View Uncertainty and hope: Community therapeutics for the Anthropocene‘We know intolerance of uncertainty is a transdiagnostic factor but we don’t know what it looks like in everyday life’: A systematic review of intolerance of uncertainty behaviours
Series: Clinical Psychology Forum Volume: 1 Issue: 296
Date of Publication: 01-08-2017
Author(s): Ravi Sankar, Lucy Robinson, Emma Honey, Mark Freeston
View ‘We know intolerance of uncertainty is a transdiagnostic factor but we don’t know what it looks like in everyday life’: A systematic review of intolerance of uncertainty behavioursA flourishing Service in a time of uncertainty?
Series: Educational Psychology in Scotland Volume: 17 Issue: 2
Date of Publication: 01-01-2016
Author(s): Louise McClatchey
View A flourishing Service in a time of uncertainty?When groups become extreme: What can uncertainty-identity theory tell us about fundamentalism?
Series: Psych-Talk Volume: 1 Issue: 71
Date of Publication: 01-02-2012
Author(s): Jim Everett
View When groups become extreme: What can uncertainty-identity theory tell us about fundamentalism?Extremism and the Psychology of Uncertainty
Series: Social Psychological Review Volume: 14 Issue: 2
Date of Publication: 01-01-2012
Author(s): Rusi Jaspal
View Extremism and the Psychology of UncertaintyNew Approaches to Qualitative Research: Wisdom and Uncertainty
Series: QMiP Bulletin Volume: 1 Issue: 14
Date of Publication: 01-01-2012
Author(s):
View New Approaches to Qualitative Research: Wisdom and UncertaintySGCP Workshop/Event Report: Wisdom, uncertainty and imagery!
Series: The Coaching Psychologist Volume: 5 Issue: 2
Date of Publication: 01-12-2009
Author(s): Jennifer Liston-Smith, Marjorie Raymond
View SGCP Workshop/Event Report: Wisdom, uncertainty and imagery!The closing of open minds: Need for closure moderates the impact of uncertainty salience on outgroup discrimination
26-09-2015
- Ambra Brizi
- Lucia Mannetti
- Arie W. Kruglanski
Understanding anxiety through uncertainty quantification
12-01-2024
- Friederike Elisabeth Hedley
- Emmett Larsen
- Aprajita Mohanty
- Jeremiah Zhe Liu
- Jingwen Jin
The threatened self: Considerations of time, place, and uncertainty in advanced illness
22-12-2015
- Veronica Nanton
- Dan Munday
- Jeremy Dale
- Bruce Mason
- Marilyn Kendall
- Scott Murray
Leading through the uncertainty of COVID-19: The joint influence of leader emotions and gender on abusive and family-supportive supervisory behaviours
11-04-2023
- Winny Shen
- Tanja Hentschel
- Ivona Hideg
Intolerance of uncertainty, appraisals, coping, and anxiety: The case of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic
09-07-2013
- Sheena Taha
- Kim Matheson
- Tracey Cronin
- Hymie Anisman
Leading through the uncertainty of COVID-19: The joint influence of leader emotions and gender on abusive and family-supportive supervisory behaviours
11-04-2023
- Winny Shen
- Tanja Hentschel
- Ivona Hideg
Urged to feel certain again: The role of emotion-related impulsivity on the relationships between intolerance of uncertainty and OCD symptom severity
13-02-2024
- Junjia Xu
- Manon L. Ironside
- Hannah C. Broos
- Sheri L. Johnson
- Kiara R. Timpano
Developing a measure of work uncertainty
27-11-2012
- Desmond Leach
- Gareth Hagger‐Johnson
- Nadin Doerner
- Toby Wall
- Nick Turner
- Jeremy Dawson
- Gudela Grote
Intolerance of uncertainty and psychosis: A systematic review
22-10-2024
- Jayne Morriss
- Daisy Butler
- Lyn Ellett
A new way to conceptualize intolerance of uncertainty among adolescents: Embracing the network perspective
19-10-2024
- Haoxian Ye
- Xinyu Shi
- Yunyi Li
- Yike Huang
- Ruiyan You
- Xiangting Zhang
- Zhijun Yu
- Huolian Li
- Fang Fan
The mediating role of fear of COVID-19 in the relationship between intolerance of uncertainty and depression
20-11-2020
- Panteleimon Voitsidis
- Vasiliki Aliki Nikopoulou
- Vasiliki Holeva
- Eleni Parlapani
- Konstantinos Sereslis
- Virginia Tsipropoulou
- Panayiota Karamouzi
- Aikaterini Giazkoulidou
- Nektaria Tsopaneli
- Ioannis Diakogiannis
Many faces of dogmatism: Prejudice as a way of protecting certainty against value violators among dogmatic believers and atheists
19-02-2016
- Małgorzata Kossowska
- Aneta Czernatowicz‐Kukuczka
- Maciej Sekerdej
The impact of anxiety and intolerance of uncertainty on climate change distress, policy support, and pro-environmental behaviour
03-10-2023
- Danielle Goldwert
- Amelia S. Dev
- Hannah C. Broos
- Kenneth Broad
- Kiara R. Timpano
The impact of anxiety and intolerance of uncertainty on climate change distress, policy support, and pro-environmental behaviour
03-10-2023
- Danielle Goldwert
- Amelia S. Dev
- Hannah C. Broos
- Kenneth Broad
- Kiara R. Timpano
Intolerance of uncertainty and novelty facilitated extinction: The impact of reinforcement schedule
08-11-2021
- Shannon Wake
- Helen Dodd
- Jayne Morriss
Don't know responses to cognitive and affective risk perception measures: Exploring prevalence and socio-demographic moderators
02-02-2018
- Eva Janssen
- Philippe Verduyn
- Erika A. Waters
Uncertainty and the influence of group norms in the attitude–behaviour relationship
24-12-2010
- Joanne R. Smith
- Michael A. Hogg
- Robin Martin
- Deborah J. Terry
Organizational perspectives on outdoor talking therapy: Towards a position of ‘environmental safe uncertainty’
12-06-2021
- Sam J. Cooley
- Ceri R. Jones
- Duncan Moss
- Noelle Robertson
Aligning Spinoza with Descartes: An informed Cartesian account of the truth bias
11-08-2016
- Chris N. H. Street
- Alan Kingstone