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Since 2007/8 the media has portrayed the banking crisis as the responsibility of a handful of people with serious personality flaws. The poster boy in this blame game was Fred Goodwin, whose grandiose and sometimes bizarre behaviour whilst CEO of Royal Bank of...

Historically, the role of peer-to-peer mental health support was one of the Mental Health First Aiders.  A reactive role focussed on identifying and supporting/signposting colleagues who have reached or are close to breaking point.  In the last few years, the role has...

Back in the middle of 2019, I took a call from a friend and business colleague who I hadn’t seen for a couple of years. I have known this person for a long time, and I know that they work incredibly hard in stressful circumstances, so it was great to hear that,...

In 1985 Edward L Deci and Richard Ryan produced the book “Self Determination and Intrinsic Motivation in Human Behaviour”. This built upon research carried out in the previous decade into intrinsic motivation, the role that it played in human behaviour, and...

I recently returned to three images that have a lot in common for me as they sum up my understanding of recovery when applied to the subject of mental health and wellbeing. The first is this tree. I used to see it every day in the grounds of the Saint John of God...

Many of us begin our working days in a state of near panic as we, maybe, sleep through the alarm for a few minutes, struggle to work out what to wear that day and then have to scour the house to find out where we have left the car keys. We might well benefit from...

I have joined a number of professional associations over the years but have gained the best value by far from my membership of the British Psychological Society. As a member I have access to a vast archive of research, to informative and educational CPD events and,...

I was reading something about the power of random acts of kindness yesterday and it got me thinking about something that happened to me when I was lucky enough to visit Japan with my family back in 2012. I remembered that I wrote about it on Facebook at the time so I...

A Practical Way to Improve Teen Emotional Health I have been doing a bit of reading over the last few days and re-visited the excellent BPS Research Digest website. The British Psychological Society employ a team to trawl the most recent research and write about it in...

A great deal of the research into mental health and wellbeing that has been conducted over the last few years has resulted in psychology moving further and further away from the medical model. The British Psychological Society published the Power Threat Framework in...