
From the Editor – Aug/Sep 2019
Welcome to Psychology in Practice magazine issue 2. See the message from our editor, and use the links below to navigate to the articles, or browse through the website.
Welcome to Psychology in Practice magazine issue 2. See the message from our editor, and use the links below to navigate to the articles, or browse through the website.
Professor Alan Baddeley is widely known for his ground-breaking work on working memory, and specifically for his multiple components model. In this article, Professor Baddeley examines the usefulness of cognitive psychology, and how this relates to working memory.
This feature looks at the varied and diverse career paths people take within
the field of psychology. In this issue, we follow Professor Andy Miller, an Honorary Professor of Educational Psychology at the Universities of both Nottingham and Warwick.
Dr Frank Ryan considers the role of willpower and working memory in creating lasting psychological change, and the ways in which practitioners can help to maximise these in a psychotherapeutic context.
Jan Willem Poot is the founder of Yes We Can Youth Clinics, a mental health care facility in the Netherlands specialising in helping young people ages 13–25 with mental health challenges, addictions and related behavioural issues. Jan Willem is in recovery himself and Psychology in Practice had the honour to interview him about the experiences he brings to his work.
The Stanford prison experiment demonstrated the power of situational forces over otherwise good people. Transformations are more likely where the social forces are powerful enough to overthrow the attributes of personal morality, compassion, empathy, or a sense of justice. We can change systems and construct situations in which people are trained to act courageously against all forms of evil.
Welcome to Psychology in Practice magazine issue 1. See the message from our editor, and use the links below to navigate to the articles, or browse through the website.
In part two of his article, Professor William Damon discusses how conducting a life review…
In this article, Miriam Edelman considers the dynamics of group decision-making, and the ways in…
Welcome to Psychology in Practice magazine issue 2. See the message from our editor, and use the links below to navigate to the articles, or browse through the website.
This month’s key author is Professor William Damon, one of the world’s leading researchers on…
This feature looks at the varied and diverse career paths people take within the field…
Teresa Wheeler talks about how the role of the educational psychologist has changed, and defines…
Brought up in a remote part of South Wales, Dr Joanna Cates always found being…
Therese Mascardo, a psychologist who got her start in California, talks about how the conventional…
In this article, Dr Sula Windgassen explores the relationship between psychological factors and physical symptom…
Ana Maloney explains how supporting special needs parents and their families can be highly rewarding.…