bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
ВІДПОВІДНІСТЬ ПОЛІТИЧНОЇ, ЕКОНОМІЧНОЇ ТА ПРАВОВОЇ СИТУАЦІЇ УКРАЇНИ КРИТЕРІЯМ ВСТУПУ ДО ЄВРОПЕЙСЬКОГО СОЮЗУ
Authors: Гаріфуллін Максим Валерійович
Published: January 2023

У статті проведено аналіз готовності вступу України до Європейського Союзу. Нині актуальність членства в Європейському Союзі для України обґрунтована як геополітичним становищем країни, фінансово-економічними, а також технологічними чинниками сталого розвитку національної соціально-економічної системи. Зазначається, що спроби України бути повноцінним членом Європейського Союзу датуються від початку проголошення її незалежною і продовжуються досі. Ключовим моментом євроінтеграційного шляху України було підписання Угоди про асоціацію України та Європейського Союзу в 2014 році. Угода про асоціацію за своїм обсягом та тематичним охопленням є найбільшим міжнародно-правовим документом за всю історію України та найбільшим міжнародним договором з третьою країною, колись укладеним Європейським Союзом. Вона визначає якісно новий формат відносин між Україною та Європейським Союзом на засадах «політичної асоціації та економічної інтеграції» та є стратегічним орієнтиром системних соціально-економічних реформ в Україні. Передбачена Угодою поглиблена та всеосяжна зона вільної торгівлі між Україною та Європейським Союзом визначатиме правову базу для вільного переміщення товарів, послуг, капіталів, частково робочої сили між Україною та Європейським Союзом, а також регуляторного наближення, спрямованого на поступове входження економіки України до спільного ринку Європейського Союзу. Наголошується на тому, що на виконання своїх зобов’язань у рамках Угоди з Європейським Союзом Україна провела низку реформ у політичній, економічній та правовій сферах. Відповідно до наявних вимог для вступу до Європейського Союзу для країни-кандидата необхідна відповідність Копенгагенським критеріям членства. Згідно з цими критеріями було розглянуто, що зроблено вже Україною, а які з вимог ще належить реалізувати. З огляду на вищезазначене здійснено аналіз можливості потенційного членства України в Європейському Союзі на підставі характеристики поточного стану відносин між Україною та країнами-членами ЄС та проаналізована відповідність поточної політичної, економічної та правової ситуації України критеріям вступу до Європейського Союзу.
Metalni nalazi s prostora osmanske kule Jahja-bega, današnje kapele Sveta tri kralja u Gorjanima
Authors: Stingl Sebastijan , Hirschler Marić Ivana , Sekulić Petar
Published: January 2023

Tijekom 2015. i 2018. godine na prostoru Kapele Sveta tri kralja u Gorjanima provedena su arheološka istraživanja. Ustanovljeno je kako je današnja kapela izvorno građena kao osmanska kula tijekom druge polovice 16. stoljeća. Za izgradnju je korištena srednjovjekovna opeka, vjerojatno s ruševina srednjovjekovne Gore/Gare. Kula stambeno-obrambene namjene izvorno se sastojala od prizemlja i, najvjerojatnije, dva kata. Arheološki su istraženi unutrašnjost objekta, kao i veća površina južno i jugozapadno od kule, prilikom čega je otkrivena i veća otpadna kanalizacijska jama koja je pripadajućim zidanim kanalom bila povezana s kulom. U unutrašnjosti kule, u slojevima šute koji su prekrivali izvorni nivo poda, pronađen je samo jedan brončani nalaz, prsten koji se datira u kasno 18. ili rano 19. stoljeće. Među pokretnim nalazima iz arheoloških konteksta, povezanih s otpadno-kanalizacijskom jamom iz vremena osmanlijskog vladanja Gorom/Garom, izdvaja se zanimljiva, brojna i raznovrsna skupina metalnih nalaza. Među njima prednjače željezni okovi za obuću, slijede noževi, nekoliko alatki, britva, ulomak vatrenog oružja i dr. te oštećeni dijelovi brončanog posuđa. Pronađeni metalni nalazi pružaju nam određeni uvid u način odijevanja te neke običaje i aktivnosti osmanske posade ili posjednika kule.
The use of cash and other means of payment: how is the way we pay changing?
Authors: Ferrando Laura , Posada Diana
Published: January 2023

Rationale

Digitalisation has made significant headway in recent years, particularly following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Against this background, it is important to analyse how consumers’ payment habits are changing at the physical point of sale, online and person-to-person.

Takeaways

•In 2022, cash is the most commonly used payment method in Spain at the physical point of sale and in person-to-person transactions, but has declined compared with 2019.

•The decrease in the use of cash is primarily driven by two factors. First, the growth in online purchases, which limits the opportunity to pay in cash and, second, a shift in consumers’ payment habits, with an increase in the use of digital payment methods in their purchases.
EFEITO DO ÁCIDO HIALURÔNICO EM PACIENTE COM MELASMA E LINHAS DE EXPRESSÃO: RELATO DE CASO
Authors: Silva Carla Luiza dos Santos , Almeida Geizikelle Carvalho , Reis Silênio Souza , Fusco Geovana Valadão Borges , Souza Daiane Malheiros , Souza Amanda de Almeida
Published: January 2023

O objetivo desse Relato de Caso foi descrever a experiência acadêmica em campo de estágio na Clínica escola de Fisioterapia da FAMP com uma paciente de melasma. Foi realizada ficha de avaliação facial, incluindo anamnese com os dados pessoais da paciente, e avaliação de hábitos com a pele. Foram propostas 5 sessões, uma vez por semana, tendo duração de 40 - 50 minutos cada sessão.
The legacy of the Bush administration: The No Child Left Behind Agenda
Authors: Horne Jo
Published: January 2023

How will Barack Obama’s administration move the high profile NCLB education agenda forward?
Recognising Developmental Coordination Disorder
Authors: Dunford Carolyn
Published: January 2023

This article is based on the Master Class given by Professor David Sugden and Dr Carolyn Dunford at the British Dyslexia Association Conference on Dyslexia ‐ Making Links: from Theory to Practice in Oxford on 27 February 2009.
Risk taking in leaders and entrepreneurs
Authors: Howard-De La Mare Polly
Published: January 2023

This article reviews the literature on leadership and risk taking, in particular the factors involved in the risk taking behaviour of entrepreneurs and organisational leaders, including orientation to risk, evaluation of risk and the personality characteristics associated with successful leaders and entrepreneurs.
Revision of the UK Test User standards and alignment with changes in Europe: Part 2 – Structure of the new qualifications
Authors: Bartram Dave
Published: January 2023

In this issue of ADM, I build on the article from Issue No. 2 (Summer 2009) and describe the structure for the new qualifications. In the next issues I will set out the timetable for changes and the arrangements that are being made to ensure current certified test users will be able to transition easily to the new system. Anyone who has a current certificate (either one of the occupational testing certificates or the educational CCET) will be automatically eligible to be grand-parented into the new scheme. If you are currently on the Register of Competence in Psychological Testing (RCPT) you will not need to do anything. If you are not, you will need to get onto the Register. None of these changes will take place before the middle of 2010.
Shorter Personality Questionnaires: A User’s Guide Part 2
Authors: Bywater James , Brown Anna
Published: January 2023

The final part of this two-part series summarises some of the issues involved in determining the correct length of assessment in a personality questionnaire (PQ). Part 1 discussed general issues that face test designers; this article covers some more modern solutions and provides practical messages for practitioners.
Online or paper completion of ability tests: An easy choice?
Authors: Wilkie Derek , Robertson Stuart , Edwards Vicky
Published: January 2023

This article sets out to clarify a number of aspects of online testing that need to be taken into account when choosing and administering online ability measures.
What makes 360 degree feedback succeed or fail?
Authors: Morison Phil
Published: January 2023

This article explores participants’ perceptions of their 360 degree experiences. The picture that emerges draws together several hitherto separate theoretical frameworks and provides a stimulus for discussion as well as a practical foundation for the development of a predictive model.
Understanding and measuring leadership effectiveness in a South East Asian context
Authors: Muhamad Mazlina , McDowall Almuth
Published: January 2023

The focus of this article is to outline a case study from a South East (SE) Asian context, where combined qualitative and quantitative approaches are being used to facilitate a better understanding and measurement of leadership effectiveness. We briefly outline some of the underlying research and then our methodology, then present the results from the first phase of the research and relate the findings back to existing leadership frameworks.
The learning brain: New lessons for the classroom
Authors: Sharples Jonathan
Published: January 2023

‘Only by understanding how the brain acquires and lays down information and skills will we be able to reach the limits of its capacity to learn.’ (Blakemore and Frith, 2005, p. 1)
Work personality in later life: An exploratory study
Authors: Bywater James , Affourtit Mathijs
Published: January 2023

With the recent changes to age legislation now well in place, James Bywater and Mathijs Affourtit delve into the research looking at the impact of age on personality and report on their own findings from a study of age trends in a sample of UK employees over the age of 65 years old.
In pursuit of organisational wisdom
Authors: Hudson Trevor E.
Published: January 2023

Key digested message

The concept of ‘wisdom’ is ancient but is something that, as studied by psychologists as opposed to philosophers, has only recently received attention. If wisdom is objectively measurable it has far reaching implications for how we understand leadership, leadership development and potential. This study utilised an adapted version of the Washington University Sentence Completion Test to investigate the concept of ‘Organisational Wisdom’ (OW).

This study found evidence, that the newly developed Organisational Wisdom Sentence Completion Test had statistically significant correlations with leadership interviews and positive correlations with internal measures of potential and performance. When combined with related research the implications for identifying and developing talent are far reaching.
Leadership: What competencies does it take to remain engaged as a leader in a VUCA world?
Authors: Bywater James , Lewis James
Published: January 2023

Key digested message

What does it take to cope in a VUCA world? This research extends the work published in 2018 to examine which behavioural competencies enhance the engagement levels of leaders in periods of high change. It uses substantial samples of real leaders occupying senior jobs in large organisations and measures personal engagement levels as the dependent variable. It seeks to answer the question ‘Who thrives as a leader under varying degrees of change and uncertainty?’ This is important because if a leader becomes disengaged there is little prospect of them being able to lead others through organisational change.
Towards a consensus model of IQ: John L. Horn and John B. Carroll
Authors: McCredie Hugh
Published: January 2023

Key digested message

This article tracks the emergence of a consensus, three level (or ‘stratum’) hierarchical, model of cognitive ability consisting of narrow abilities (Level 1/Stratum I), broad abilities (Level 2/Stratum II) and a single general ability (Level 3/Stratum III).
Explorers of implicit motivation part 3Measuring the achievement motive (nAch)
Authors: McCredie Hugh
Published: January 2023

Key digested message

The preceding article ended with Murray’s Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) eliciting one or more of 44 themas which included three social needs/motives: nAchievement (nAch), nAffiliation (nAff) and nDominance (later termed nPower or nPow). This article will report on how a measure of the first of these needs, nAch, was developed in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
Vulnerable adults: Assessing capacity to consent
Authors: Conboy-Hill Suzanne
Published: January 2023

The new Mental Capacity Bill (2004) says that an adult’s capacity to give or withhold consent to any action affecting them is decision-specific, not diagnosis based, but how do you assess capacity?
The usefulness of letters: Exploring written communication between CAMHS and general practitioners
Authors: Dalton Louise , Holdaway Claire
Published: January 2023

This paper explores GPs’ views of the letters they receive from CAMHS colleagues, and offers recommendations as to how our written communication with referrers might be optimised.
What’s different about sex?
Authors: Butler Catherine
Published: January 2023

Catherine Butler reports on the joint conference held by the DCP Faculty of HIV/Sexual Health and the Lesbian and Gay Psychology Section of the Society on 18 November 2005
NICE recommends EMDR for post-traumatic stress disorder: Why?
Authors: Ost James , Easton Simon
Published: January 2023

This paper reviews the promotion in the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidelines for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), published in March 2005, of Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) as an equivalent to cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT).
Is it worth investing in training clinical psychologists via the Statement of Equivalence route? A pilot study
Authors: Whittington Adrian , Goble Laura
Published: January 2023

The results of two surveys relating to the Salomons Statement of Equivalence (SoE) programme are described. Results indicate broad satisfaction with the programme for stakeholders and high rates of NHS retention over the brief period that was monitored. Areas for development and further research are discussed.
‘Out of the mouths of babes’: Drawing upon siblings’ experiences to develop a therapeutic board game for siblings and children with a chronic illness
Authors: Curson Deborah , Sharkey Sarah
Published: January 2023

This paper outlines the initial development of a therapeutic board game for children and siblings of children with a chronic illness. It demonstrates how children’s views and personal experiences can be used in creative ways to facilitate clinical practice.
Going back to school
Authors: Lonsdale Jennie , Courtney Jude , Chantry David
Published: January 2023

In light of the National Service Framework (NSF) for Children, Young People and Maternity Services recommendations for psychological services in schools, three clinical psychologists reflect on their experiences of working in Behaviour and Education Support Teams (BESTs).
Reflecting on recovery after head injury
Authors: Newnes Craig
Published: January 2023

This paper examines the subjective experience of closed head injury. I describe the lived experience of a head injured person and suggest that recovery as a concept falls woefully short of the mark.
Writing for publication: Sharing the experience
Authors: James Melissa
Published: January 2023

This paper gives a reflective flavour of my experience of writing for publication.
Mental health provision in schools: What do schools want?
Authors: Rust Jonathan , Slinger Richard
Published: January 2023

This paper reports and discusses the opinions of a range of school-based staff with respect to mental health provision, in the context of setting up a school-based mental health service in the Blackburn with Darwen area. The service is funded for two years, by schools and the Neighbourhood Renewal Fund, secured through the Excellence in Cities Partnership.
New challenges, new possibilities and new solutions: The National Service Framework for Older People
Authors: Allen Chris
Published: January 2023

This article identifies trends that are likely to affect future provision in services to older people and considers implications for the models that dominate clinical psychology thinking and clinical practice skills.
Being newly qualified in an older people’s mental health service
Authors: Oldroyd Stephanie
Published: January 2023

This article demonstrates many of the dilemmas and challenges of taking up a first post-qualification post in the older people’s speciality. These are described with insight and affection for the client group and the services providers.
PSIGE: Its history, current functioning and aims for the future. A view from the chair 2003-5
Authors: Bradbury Nicky
Published: January 2023

This article gives an overview of the history, aims and activities of the Special Interest Group for psychologists specialising in work with older people.
Implications for practice
Authors: Smail David
Published: January 2023

The critique of conventional clinical and counselling psychology advanced in the foregoing articles is summarised, and suggestions are offered for positive adjustments that might be made to clinical practice.
The trouble with psychotherapy
Authors: Moloney Paul
Published: January 2023

The supposedly sound evidence base for the effectiveness of the psychological therapies may be far more questionable than is widely supposed.
‘Don’t Make Me Angry’
Authors: Andrew Rachel
Published: January 2023

I recently filmed a programme for Channel 4. This involved my assessing and formulating the difficulties of four angry teenagers. The young people and I then developed their interventions. These are reflections on the process, the young people and me.
A survey of psychological therapy waiting lists in secondary adult mental health services throughout UK NHS Trusts
Authors: Rezin Valerie , Gardner Charlotte
Published: January 2023

This paper reports the results of a survey of UK mental health trusts regarding length of waiting lists for psychological therapy and initiatives for reducing these.
Quality of care on an inpatient psychiatric unit
Authors: O’Brien Gemma , Pitt Julian , James Daphne , Roberts Lynne
Published: January 2023

This article summarises a research project which assessed the experiences of care provided by three inpatient psychiatric wards before and one year after the introduction of the Tidal Model (Barker, 2001; Barker & Buchanan-Barker, 2004) – a client-centred nursing model.
User satisfaction with a psychoeducation group for people with a diagnosis of psychosis and their carers
Authors: Mooney Patricia , Stallard Anna , Alexander Fiona
Published: January 2023

This study assessed user satisfaction with a psychoeducation group programme for people with a diagnosis of psychosis and their carers. Results were found to be encouraging. Recommendations for future changes to the group and the audit process are made.
Diversity in eating disorder service user feedback: Implications for service development
Authors: Roy Meila , Turner Hannah , Bryant-Waugh Rachel
Published: January 2023

This study reviewed qualitative feedback from people attending a community eating disorder service and completing a routinely administered satisfaction questionnaire. Two hundred and twelve qualitative responses were identified and categorised into eight themes. Findings suggest that it is important to retain flexibility and choice in service delivery.
Supervisor training: Assessing learning needs and outcomes
Authors: Carroll Martin , Holmes Nan
Published: January 2023

Supervision training has become an area of growing importance for clinical training programmes. This paper presents our recent efforts to evaluate the impact of supervision workshops on the knowledge and attitudes of supervisors and increase our understanding of their learning needs.
Notes from the Chair
Authors: Cate Tim
Published: January 2023

Tim Catelooks at the work of the Division over the last month
Addressing the needs of significant others on an outpatient pain management programme
Authors: Copland Claire
Published: January 2023

Clinicians delivering pain management programmes (PMPs) have long debated how best to involve significant others. The article explore s some of the dilemmas encountered when considering this issue and describes the development and audit of a session for significant others on an outpatient PMP.
The effectiveness of pain management programmes for older adults
Authors: Mir Faisal
Published: January 2023

This service evaluation provides support for the need for pain management programmes for older adults with chronic pain. Results revealed that patients after attending the programme reported less pain related disability, anxiety, depression, and catastrophising about their chronic pain difficulty.
Clinics for consultation and collaboration in learning disability services
Authors: Jones Jill , Weinberg Laura
Published: January 2023

Consultation services are growing in clinical psychology settings. This paper describes an audit of a consultation service for staff working with clients with learning disabilities.
Developing a service user and carer written charter: From the perspective of an assistant psychologist
Authors: Simpson Jenny
Published: January 2023

This article outlines the development and implications of a service user and carer written charter and how it relates to psychological theory.
Who cares about evidence-based psychotherapy?
Authors: Cate Tim , Bilsen van
Published: January 2023

Tim CateandHenckvan Bilsenissue a call to arms
The Mental Capacity Act: An update
Authors: Dooley Catherine
Published: January 2023

Catherine Dooley brings us up to date with the latest developments
The diverse unity of clinical approaches: Developing frameworks
Authors: Leyin Alan
Published: January 2023

This article examines the diversity of approaches and styles of working within clinical psychology and presents a framework that integrates this diversity.
AIMS and its aims
Authors: Hanna John
Published: January 2023

Clinical Psychology Forum talks to John Hanna about the Accreditation for Acute Inpatient Mental Health Services (AIMS) project.
Learning the ropes
Authors: Plunkett Colleen
Published: January 2023

This article highlights some of the day-to-day practicalities and realities of working as a newly qualified clinical psychologist in Assertive Outreach (AO).
The DCP Pre-Qualification Group
Authors: Phillips Cathy , Muir-Nelson Rachel
Published: January 2023

Cathy PhillipsandRachel Muir-Nelson,Trainee and Assistant Co-Chairs for 2005–6, look at the Group’s activities over the past year
Learning from experience about a competency-based placement system for clinical psychology training
Authors: Larkin Michael , Rostill Helen , O’Shea Michelle , Howard Ruth
Published: January 2023

We reflect upon the process of changing to a competency-based system of placements. We illustrate our account with qualitative data from stakeholders in the Birmingham course.
Distance learning needn’t be distant: The creative use of literature and the media
Authors: Stedmon Jacqui , Dallos Rudi , Moss Duncan
Published: January 2023

The Plymouth programme has developed a prototype for distance learning designed to help integrate theory and practice for trainees. This paper explores the rationale for adopting a reflective, blended learning approach and describes a successful distance learning package.
Reflective practice comes of age in Birmingham
Authors: Powell Theresa , Howard Ruth
Published: January 2023

This article describes the transition from personal awareness groups to reflective practice groups and integration of reflective practice into the curriculum on the Birmingham ClinPsyD. It details the steps in the process and the first evaluation of the new groups.
Interprofessional education: Even clinical psychologists can do it
Authors: Champion Matthew , Hayward Mark , Hart Kathryn
Published: January 2023

Clinical psychology trainees and dietetic students came together to learn from and with each other. This article reports some of the experiences of those involved.
Notes from the Chair
Authors: Cate Tim
Published: January 2023

Tim Cate sees the reorganised Division of Clinical Psychology continue to take shape
News
Authors: Sanders Matt
Published: January 2023

The Triple P Programme is the subject of a symposium at this year’s DCP Conference and its orginator, Professor Matt Sanders, is one of the Conference’s keynote speakers
Managers’ Faculty annual survey 2005
Authors: Walker S.L. , Cate Tim
Published: January 2023

S.L. Walker and Tim Cate report the findings
The Mental Capacity Act 2005: Implications for restraint and seclusion
Authors: Baker Peter
Published: January 2023

Peter Baker from Sussex Partnership NHS Trust and the Tizard Centre, University of Kent, reports
Some problems with the case for psychologists becoming clinical supervisors: A response to Pilgrim and others
Authors: Harper Dave
Published: January 2023

Craig Newnes published an article by Tim Newton and me inClinical Psychology Forumnearly 20 years ago (Harper & Newton, 1988). It was the first thing I had ever had in print, written as an assistant psychologist trying to get a place on a clinical course, so it seems fitting to be writing another piece to top and tail Craig’s editorship. As I wrote in a letter toForuma few months back, I’d like to offer my personal thanks to Craig who has put in endless hours over the years to turn the DCP newsletter into something (relatively) readable and who has managed to attract a skilled group of people into the editorial collective. Whilst not everyone agrees with Craig’s views, his editorship has been remarkably democratic – with the pages ofForumregularly crackling with debate. He is a skilled, passionate and well-read writer of anything, ranging from reflective musings to polemics to, I now understand, novels. As a friend once said to me, if Craig didn’t exist, we’d have to invent him. The following paper is intended to be in the spirit of the debates seen in the pages ofForum, as fostered by Craig and the collective.
Where the political becomes personal: Reflections on undergoing the Statement of Equivalence
Authors: Smit Joalida
Published: January 2023

This article provides a personal reflection on undergoing the Statement of Equivalence. It describes feelings of professional inferiority as the result of subtle mechanisms of ‘othering’ inherent in the SoE. It argues that undergoing the Statement requires a particular cognitive-emotional orientation that is less often discussed.
Service evaluation of a pilot project examining the impact of dialectical behavioural therapy on outpatients diagnosed with borderline personality disorder
Authors: Newton Ben , Denham-Vaughan Sally , Lees Andie
Published: January 2023

Current research supports the use of dialectical behavioural therapy with clients who have borderline personality disorder (e.g. Verheulet al., 2003). This service evaluation assesses the impact of DBT on clients’ psychological well-being and associated self-harming behaviour, and estimates the ensuing effect on NHS resources.
A pilot study of the Webster-Stratton Incredible Years Therapeutic Dinosaur School programme
Authors: Hutchings Judy , Bywater Tracey , Daley Dave , Lane Eleanor
Published: January 2023

The Webster-Stratton Incredible Years (IY) Therapeutic Dinosaur School intervention was evaluated in clinically referred children with behavioural disorders. Results suggest that this is an effective intervention.
Splinters on the fence: Reflecting on Agenda for Change
Authors: Kalsy Sharon
Published: January 2023

This article provides a personal account of Agenda for Change, based on the author’s observations of both the process and the staff who experienced it.
Integrating graduate primary care mental health workers with clinical training: The Selby & York PCT/Hull & York Universities Scheme
Authors: Bell Sally , Bamber Michael , Chasle Laura , Lyne Jake , Nutt Rachel , Sanders Winston , Simpson Phil , Wang Mike
Published: January 2023

This article describes the experiences of five graduate primary care mental health workers (GPCMHWs) based in York and Selby PCT, forming part of a unique graduate scheme linking the PCT and York University to the Hull Clinical Psychology Doctoral Training Course.
Distressed by anomalous experience: Early identification of psychosis
Authors: Tierney Ian , Coelho Claudia , Lamont Peter
Published: January 2023

Research on the effect of early identification and delay in the treatment of psychosis affects academic units contacted by individuals reporting distressing anomalous experience.
Notes from the Chair
Authors: Cate Tim
Published: January 2023

Tim Cate looks back on a successful Annual Conference and ahead to 2007
Developing frameworks:Our Health, Our Care, Our Say?
Authors: Leyin Alan
Published: January 2023

This article examines the diversity of approaches and styles of working within the context of the white paperOur Health, Our Care, Our Say.
Psycho-education and support group for people with severe brain injury
Authors: Smalley Victoria , Brannick Susan , Coates Richard
Published: January 2023

Groupwork with people who have sustained a brain injury is commonly practised, but rarely written about. This article details our experience of running a psycho-educational/support group with this client group. The benefits and difficulties of this groupwork are discussed.
Key issues in the Mental Capacity Act 2005 for England and Wales in the treatment of eating disorders
Authors: Tan Jacinta , Stewart Anne , Whitehead Linette
Published: January 2023

Jacinta Tan, from the University of Oxford, andAnne StewartandLinette Whiteheadfrom Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust, present the latest article from the Society’s Mental Capacity Act group
Diagnosing autism: Can it make a difference?
Authors: Brown-Wright Lucy , Gumley Dianne
Published: January 2023

This article discusses the process of assessing and potentially diagnosing autism. It is argued that the process of recognition, encompassing collaborative and comprehensive multidisciplinary assessment, can be pivotal in understanding clinical difficulties and potentially making a difference.
Is this the end of the world as we know it?
Authors: Langman-Levy Amy , White Loretta
Published: January 2023

Amy Langman-Levy&Loretta White, trainee representatives from the DCP Pre-Qualified Group Committee and Oxford Course Trainees, offer their reflections on the 2006 GTiCP Annual Conference
Notes from the Chair
Authors: Cate Tim
Published: January 2023

Tim Catereports back from the Division’s Strategy Meeting and looks at harmonisation
An examination of a recovery group in an adult community mental health team
Authors: Bennett Claire , Carter Sarah , Sudan Anita K.
Published: January 2023

The recovery group provides an acceptable service which attendees’ value and name as a helpful resource during their recovery journey. Replication of the group in other geographical areas could provide a valuable resource to support others in their recovery journey.
What can a team-based psychologist do after a serious incident? Developing guidance and being aware
Authors: Clifford Rebecca , Reid Stuart
Published: January 2023

Recent questions have been asked nationally by psychologists about how we are to respond to our staff teams following a serious untoward incident within the Five Boroughs NHS inpatient psychology team, we were completing some guidance for ourselves following responding to such situations within our practice. This article will summarise the work we have done and hopefully promote further debate and awareness across services.
Skype therapy: More or less confidential than traditional therapy?
Authors: Hawker Debbie , Hawker David
Published: January 2023

Skype is often used for psychotherapy, especially where face-to-face alternatives are unavailable. Some suggest that Skype is not suitable, because of concerns about confidentiality. We believe it is at least as secure as many other ways psychotherapists communicate with clients.
A black male heading towards a profession which is largely white female
Authors: Dodzro Ronald
Published: January 2023

This article is a reflection of my experiences as an aspiring clinical psychologist attempting to understand the profession. It looks at how we can attempt change. Currently the profession is not a reflection of the multicultural society we serve.
A controlled trial of a CBT group for women with low self-esteem
Authors: McElhinney Rowena , Reid Helen , Morton Liza
Published: January 2023

Following previous work which indicated positive outcomes (Morton et al., 2012), we report findings from a controlled trial evaluating an eight-week cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) self-esteem group for women based on ‘Overcoming Low Self-Esteem Self-Help’ course workbooks (Fennell, 2006).
Positive behaviour support for people with a diagnosis of personality disorder
Authors: Brown Dan , Shawe-Taylor Metka , Swan Sarah
Published: January 2023

This paper discusses some risk management challenges associated with the diagnosis of personality disorder (PD) and describes a positive behaviour support (PBS) approach to addressing these.
Are trainee clinical psychologists fit for delivering positive behavioural support on qualification?
Authors: Scior Katrina , Brown Freddy Jackson , Gore Nick , Morris Julian , Armstrong Heather
Published: January 2023

Recent NHS guidance mandates that positive behavioural support (PBS) should be the approach of choice across settings for those whose behaviour challenges. In this article we argue that more needs to be done to ensure clinical psychology trainees are fit for PBS practice if the discipline is to take a leading role.
The value of values: Reflecting on the inclusion of Values Based Recruitment (VBR) in selection processes
Authors: Hobbis Imogen
Published: January 2023

This article records some personal reflections on the introduction of Values Based Recruitment to the admissions processes of clinical psychology training courses and considers some of the challenges and opportunities this raised for the University of East Anglia Doctoral Programme.
Involvement in UK DClinPsy programmes: Attitudes and activity
Authors: Briggs James , O’Key Victoria , Tickle Anna , Rennoldson Mike
Published: January 2023

We surveyed service users, carers and staff who contribute to involvement in clinical psychology training programmes in the UK about involvement activity and their attitudes towards this. We found generally positive attitudes towards involvement not reflected in activity levels.
‘It’s all about relationships’: Formulating problems in multi-agency work with offenders with personality difficulties
Authors: Sutherland Ruth , Brown Pete , Ramsden Joanne
Published: January 2023

A workshop was held to formulate difficulties encountered in multi-agency working. Significant parallels with individual formulations were identified, particularly the importance of developing collaborative relationships. Service-level formulation was agreed to be a useful strategy for overcoming obstacles in multiagency work.
Evaluation of an attention and engagement group for children diagnosed with autistic spectrum disorder and their parents
Authors: Turner Krystina , Chippendale Jodie , Winterton Alison , Davis Amy , Mogridge Janet
Published: January 2023

The Attention and Engagement group was developed for children with autistic spectrum disorder and their parents. It aimed to overcome the limitations of existing interventions offered by various services. It was found that parents were very satisfied with the service.
Experiences of attending neuropsychological assessment: A service evaluation
Authors: Mountjoy Thomas , Field Sue , Stapleton Anna , Kemp Steven
Published: January 2023

This project evaluated a sample of service users’ and carer/family members’ experiences of neuropsychological assessment in an outpatient adult clinical neuropsychology service, and specifically the utility and impact of the results received in feedback sessions. Recommendations and suggestions for effective practice are discussed.
The challenges of a psychology service working within an inpatient stroke ward: Reflections and recommendations
Authors: Edwards Amy , Venn Paul
Published: January 2023

This article focuses on the work undertaken within our inpatient setting and our reflections of working within our current structure. Our team frequently reflects on the challenges of working psychologically within an acute general hospital. This article aims to share some of these reflections within the context of the available literature, with a view to making recommendations that may assist similar services.
Attachment focused caregiving training in residential children’s homes: A pilot study
Authors: Bailey Elizabeth K.
Published: January 2023

Staff in residential children’s homes care for young people presenting with complex emotional and relational needs. The Fostering Attachments with Children who are Looked After and Adopted training programme was delivered to residential childcare workers. Feedback from participants was extremely positive, especially in relation to staff confidence and understanding.
A relational map of politics, the media and the public: Cognitive Analytic Therapy and contextual reformulation
Authors: Jefferis Steve
Published: January 2023

Cognitive Analytic Therapy offers a social and relational model of psychological development which is increasingly being used for contextual reformulation: formulations to understand systems, teams, organisations and beyond. The CAT concept of ‘reciprocal roles’ provides an accessible and powerful shorthand to describe repeated patterns of relating, which can be extended to individuals and groups’ experiences of society, culture and institutions, and how these experiences may be reciprocally maintained. The example of politics and the media, and the case of Jeremy Corbyn, is used as an illustration of CAT formulation of a social process.
Trident renewal and the Labour Party: A systemic formulation using the Coordinated Management of Meaning
Authors: Arthington Phil
Published: January 2023

A recent political episode regarding the UK’s nuclear weapons programme is used to illustrate how systemic formulation based upon the Coordinated Management of Meaning can help to make sense of problems of communication arising within human systems.
Improving access to psychological therapies for psychosis in a community mental health service
Authors: Gray Emily , Stevens Daniel , Motton Nicola , Meddings Sara
Published: January 2023

Access to National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) recommended psychological therapies for people experiencing psychosis has been limited nationally. This paper demonstrates how access to these therapies has been successfully increased in a North-West Sussex mental health service.
Bringing together psychologists and the public: The challenges and opportunities of a Division of Clinical Psychology branch involvement initiative
Authors: Allan Sophie , Hill Emma
Published: January 2023

Involving Experts by Experience is a priority for the Division of Clinical Psychology. This commentary outlines the DCP East of England Branch’s involvement work, including challenges of defining Experts by Experience’s achievements, and future plans, from the perspective of two subcommittee members.
A qualitative study of the experiences and views of parents of young people attending concurrent dialectical behavioural therapy group interventions
Authors: Allen Siân , Tolley Susan
Published: January 2023

Based on qualitative methods, the study describes experiences of parents of young people attending concurrent dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) group interventions. Parents reported a positive group experience, noticing benefits for themselves and their children, and a greater sense of hope for the future.
Developing a social support group for older people in a physical rehabilitation setting
Authors: Crayton Elise , Verney Natalie , Kneebone Ian
Published: January 2023

Quality of life and recovery from a variety of conditions, can be positively affected by social support. This article describes the development of an activity-based support group at an inpatient rehabilitation hospital for older people.
An initial review and analysis of the recruitment process involving service users and carers for assistant psychologists
Authors: Prescott Lindsay , Westbrook Jenna , McGarry Jill
Published: January 2023

This article presents the recruitment process of assistant psychologists to Salford Learning Disability Team which has involved service users and carers over the past six years. The aim was to share ideas for best practice and our areas for development.
Uncertainty and hope: Community therapeutics for the Anthropocene
Authors: Mitchell Andrew
Published: January 2023

This technical paper briefly explores collaborative systemic therapy for its potential contribution to helping community-based sustainability initiatives enhance the generation of social spaces within which changes in how members of a community engage in adaptations to climate change are facilitated.
Can brief mindfulness-based intervention improve attention in individuals with mixed neurological disorders?
Authors: Emenalo-Strange Judy , Friedland Daniel
Published: January 2023

This study evaluated whether a short-term mindfulness-based intervention could improve attention impairment for participants with a neurological condition. The results demonstrated a clinical improvement in self-reported measures of mindfulness, attention and psychological distress. This was not observed using the neuropsychological test of attention for overall group scores.
Development of a patient-centred neuropsychology website
Authors: Gillanders Sarah , Duncan Nikki , Gillespie David
Published: January 2023

This article describes the development of a patient-centred neuropsychology website. It outlines the aims of the website, how it was developed and how it has been used since its launch.
Understanding power in order to share hope: A tribute to David Smail
Authors: Bostock Jan
Published: January 2023

The psychological consequences of poverty, abuse and discrimination are palpable and debilitating, and clinical and community psychologists are in a position to represent this in our research and practice. We can account for how economic, social and organisational inequalities and deprivation influence communities and individuals, and understand how social processes can be undermining and also how they can generate resilience. We can also use our resources to work with others actively and publicly.

While recognising that psychological interventions are inherently limited and problematic, I would like to suggest that they may share hopeful ways forward with individuals, organisations and communities. Acknowledging and understanding the overwhelming physical and emotional consequences of the misuse of power can be a validating process that generates collaborative alliances. We can draw on David Smail’s framework for analysing people’s proximal powers in the context of distal forces to consider the scope people have to act individually or collectively, and to be open about the limitations and potential of psychological interventions.
The promise (and potential pitfalls) of a public health approach in clinical psychology
Authors: Harper David
Published: January 2023

David Smail’s work provided an excellent example of how one might view individual distress within its social context, a context which ranged from the level of interpersonal relationships to the forces of global capital. In this paper, I review how individualised solutions to emotional distress are increasingly preferred over collective or structural approaches. Within medicine the discipline of public health has proved to be a useful counter-balance to this tendency. I discuss some of the benefits offered by adopting such an approach in mental health, while also acknowledging the need to address some of its problems (e.g. the rather uncritical use of heterogeneous diagnostic categories of varied validity and reliability).
Working across boundaries in services for children, young people and families
Authors: Fatimilehin Iyabo
Published: January 2023

My experience of working with children, young people and families has been one of crossing ‘boundaries’. These boundaries are multifaceted and impacted by cultural contexts, service contexts, economic and political imperatives, organisational structures and personal and professional values. This talk will take a brief look at the implications of these boundaries for working with children and families in contemporary British society.
Speaking our minds as clinical psychologists
Authors: Johnstone Lucy
Published: January 2023

A combination of international debates about psychiatric diagnosis, failure to find biomarkers to validate the ‘illness’ model, and emerging evidence on the role of trauma, abuse and social inequality in mental distress, is creating the possibility of fundamental change in mental health systems. However, despite the recent ‘Position Statement on Classification’, clinical psychologists have always had an ambivalent attitude to challenging psychiatric power and influence. This tension will be explored in relation to key areas of theory and practice.
Reflections on organising the power, interest and psychology conference
Authors:   Midlands Psychology Group
Published: January 2023

And then there were six…

It was mostly with feelings of relief that members of the Midlands Psychology Group (MPG) reached the end of the two-day Power, Interest and Psychology Conference. As conference co-organisers, it seemed we had achieved the overall aims and that much time had been spent paying tribute, remembering and celebrating David Smail’s ideas. At the same time, individual members of the group, to varying degrees, experienced mixed feelings about the two days. We continue to think and talk together about these and about the continued influence of David’s ideas on the profession of clinical psychology.
The rich, the rich, we’ve got to get rid of the rich
Authors: Mckenzie Lisa
Published: January 2023

This is the chant of 1500 protesters marching across Tower Bridge in London on a very wet and very cold Saturday afternoon in January. This was the very boisterous and loud section of the ‘March for Homes’, which started in Shoreditch in east London, led by the Focus E15 campaign – a group of young mothers and their children who were forcibly evicted out of a homeless hostel in 2013. The hostel sits in the shadow of the billion pound developments of the Olympic Park and the Westfield Shopping Centre. The campaign and fight of the Focus E15 mothers is just one example of the terrible and cruel ways that working-class families and young mothers in particular are being treated in austerity Britain. This is the consequence of inequality gone mad, unrestrained markets, and a lack of empathy for those who struggle to survive in a rampant neoliberal campaign for wealth and more wealth to be redistributed upwards. This is my current research: examining what is happening to working class families, and how precarious their lives have become because of the structuring forces of the open market. Drawing upon my previous research in St Ann’s in Nottingham, I show how working-class people and their communities have been devalued to such an extent that the land that they live on is worth more than them.
Dissemination of research from clinical psychology training: Further lessons from the Manchester programme
Authors: Wittkowski Anja , Bohen Faye , Hare Dougal Julian
Published: January 2023

This article outlines an approach to the organisation of the doctoral research project on a ClinPsyD programme. The advantages of combining programmatic research with in-house supervision and integrating research with other components of clinical training is discussed. In this paper we will discuss the impact of the changes that have been made to the research component of the Manchester ClinPsyD programme which were described in our previous papers (Hare et al., 2015).