Anton Watman/Shutterstock Alice M. Gregory is Professor of Psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is a member of the Advisory Board for a digital parent education endeavor on infant and toddler sleep that is being supported by Johnson’s Baby. She is a Corresponding Editor (Sleep) for the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. She has Read More…
Category: clinical psychology
CBT isn’t a talking therapy it’s a doing therapy.
Dr. Lucy Oldfield is a practising Clinical Psychologist working in a primary care adult mental health setting in the NHS alongside lecturing at Goldsmiths on the Foundations in Clinical Psychology and Health Services MSc programme. Her clinical work is focused around anxiety and mood disorders with a specialist interest in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy sometimes Read More…
Hypnosis may still be veiled in mystery – but we are starting to uncover its scientific basis
On the count of three, you will forget this ever happened. Everett Collection/Shutterstock Devin Terhune, Goldsmiths, University of London and Steven Jay Lynn, Binghamton University, State University of New York This piece was originally published in The Conversation Some argue that hypnosis is just a trick. Others, however, see it as bordering on the paranormal Read More…
Fight or Flight
Dr. Lucy Oldfield is a practising Clinical Psychologist working in a primary care adult mental health setting in the NHS alongside lecturing at Goldsmiths on the Foundations in Clinical Psychology and Health Services MSc programme. Her clinical work is focused around anxiety and mood disorders with a specialist interest in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Here, in honour of Read More…
Why a lack of sleep makes us depressed … and what we can do about it
Alice M. Gregory is Professor of Psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is a member of the Advisory Board for a digital parent education endeavor on infant and toddler sleep that is being supported by Johnson’s Baby. She is a Corresponding Editor (Sleep) for the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. She has previously received Read More…
How are you? Mental Health Awareness in Higher Education
Today is World Mental Health Day. Two years ago, Dr. Sian Jones, a Teaching Fellow in the Department, blogged on mental health awareness in undergraduates. She says “Today, there is more awareness among students and beyond – and more research (check out Alex Haslam’s research in evidence of this). [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWWZd8lrraw] Yet, undergraduates I see still worry Read More…
Memory and sense of self may play more of a role in autism than we thought
Lorna Goddard, Goldsmiths, University of London It’s well-known that those with autism spectrum disorders including Asperger’s syndrome develop difficulties with social communication and show stereotyped patterns of behaviour. Less well-studied but equally characteristic features are a weaker sense of self and mood disorders such as depression and anxiety. These are connected with a weaker ability Read More…
Brexit, it’s stressing me out
Dr. Georgina Hosang is a Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her research concerns the role of life adversity and medical burdens for those with mental illness and the gene-environment interplay in mood disorders (Major Depression & Bipolar Disorder). Here, in the second of our Brexit-focussed posts, she considers the psychological Read More…
