Clinical Psychology student community placements

Trainee clinical psychologists in their first year of training spend six weeks on community psychology placements, considering psychological aspects of social inequality in a community context. Placements were provided by the Time Bank, Emmaus, Alzheimer’s Society, Open Doors, HANA, Department of Work and Pensions, Worklink, Groundwork and Andrew Marvell College. Teaching is set up to support the placement, and consists of formal lectures on topics such as Critical psychology, difference and diversity, and social constructionism. Last Friday the trainees presented their posters to the faculty in the Calder building. They drew out themes of their placements and provided novel perspectives on their experiences to their local colleagues and mentors, as well as their peers and anyone passing through the Calder building during the lunch period. It was a lovely event with a free lunch put on by the trainees to celebrate a positive ending! Thank you to all organisations for providing placements, for all mentors providing support and to all who came to discuss the posters on the day!

How mothers feel: Validation of a measure of maternal mood

Colin Martin as co-authored:

Emily Savage McGlynn, Colin R. Martin, Maggie Redshaw (2019) How mothers feel: Validation of a measure of maternal mood Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice DOI: 10.1111/jep.13304

Visit by Women with Endometriosis to the University of Hull

On Monday 26 November 2019 representatives from Women with Endometriosis toured the labs with Leah Cooksey, PhD student in Biomedical Sciences, Dr Barbara Guinn, Reader in Biomedical Sciences and Mr Kevin Phillips, Consultant Gynaecologist at Hull University Hospitals Trust and Castle Hill Endometriosis Centre. Our guests heard a talk about the University of Hull and the endometriosis research now being performed as part of the Biomarkers PhD cluster and toured the labs having a chance to see first-hand some of the work we are undertaking. We were joined by Hull Daily Mail and the Roaring Girls and discussed some of the awful and far reaching impacts that endometriosis can have on the 1 in 10 women affected by this disease.

The experience of talking about hearing voices with family, friends, and others

Simon Watkins,Anjula Gupta & Christopher Sanderson have published:

The experience of talking about hearing voices with family, friends, and others Psychosis doi: 10.1080/17522439.2019.1690561

Objective: There is evidence to suggest that close social networks and wider social influences have a significant impact on people who hear voices. The aim of this research was to explore people’s experiences of talking about voice hearing with family, friends, and others. Method: Transcribed interviews with five participants, recruited through mental health services, were analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). Results: Two superordinate themes, each with multiple subordinate themes, were developed from the interviews: “Who can I talk to about this?”, which explores the way people communicate carefully about their voices to manage their experiences of shame, and “I was shocked by how they responded”, which considers others’ reactions to participants disclosures and the impact this had on the participants. Conclusions: The research findings are compared to the existing literature, limitations of the research are considered, and clinical considerations for supporting people who hear voices are explored.

Conference presentation by Kirtsy Fishburn

Kirsty Fishburn was invited to speak about ‘Prescribing in Mental Health’ and ‘Maintaining Competence in non-medical Prescribing Practice’ at Northamptonshire NHS Foundation Trust at their ‘Making a Difference Non-Medical Prescribing Conference.

Evaluating interventions for Behaviours that Challenge (BtC) in dementia care – what instruments do specialist practitioners working in the UK use?

Rosie Dunn & Esme Moniz-Cook have published:

Rosie Dunn & Esme Moniz-Cook (2019) Evaluating interventions for Behaviours that Challenge (BtC) in dementia care – what instruments do specialist practitioners working in the UK use? FPOP Bulletin 48, 51-60

Training people with dementia/cognitive impairment and their carers in the use of web-based supportive technologies (Innovative practice)

Hull colleagues have published:

Katie Cunnah, David Howe, Jonathan Thorpe, Rosie Dunn, Rebecca Platt, Caroline White, Kevin Paulson, Emma Wolverson (2019) Training people with dementia/cognitive impairment and their carers in the use of web-based supportive technologies (Innovative practice) Dementia doi: 10.1177/1471301219887592