Course: Psychology and Mental Health: Beyond Nature and Nurture

As with ‘Catch It’, this app is designed only to illustrate some of the basic ideas of ‘cognitive behaviour therapy’ or CBT. in their work. It is a very popular …

As a Professor of Clinical Psychology, the ideas that I research and write about have real significance. I work (part time, unpaid) in the UK’s NHS as a clinical psychologist. …

When we published the research paper that we discussed last week, several people asked if there were practical steps that they could take to improve their own emotional health and …

Clinical psychologists often (although by no means always) use a specific therapeutic strategy called ‘cognitive behaviour therapy’ or CBT in their work. It is a very popular approach to therapy. …

This interactive spreadsheet, explained in the video, allows you to see how biological problems, social problems, life events and rumination can have an effect on mental health. You can input …

As a practicing clinical psychologist, the point of doing research is to make a difference in practice. In this brief video, I explain some of the implications of the findings …

In this video, I explain the large study we conducted with the help of the BBC, testing out the relationships between the variables in my model of mental health and …

As a Professor of Clinical Psychology, I have argued for a long time that our mental health is essentially a psychological issue, and that biological, social, and circumstantial factors affect …

A brief video discussing the complex relationship between biological and social accounts of mental health and well-being.

In this week’s videos and papers we discuss the role of life events and environmental factors – nurture – in the development of mental health problems. This video introduces the …

A brief video introducing and explaining the origins of the manifesto for psychiatry – a ‘wake up call’ – drawn up by Nick Craddock and colleagues in 2008.

A brief critique of the week’s discussions, and an introduction to next week’s material. In this brief video, I discuss both the strengths and weaknesses of the biological approaches to …

This brief video introduces the seminal 1998 paper outlining a ‘new intellectual framework for psychiatry’ by Eric Kandel. We’ll look at Kandel’s paper in more detail on the next step.

In this week’s videos and papers we discuss the role of biological factors – nature – in the development of mental health problems. We hear again from Professor John Quinn, …