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The British Psychological Society is looking to appoint a Chair for our Research Board, to take up office from summer 2024-2027. Championing psychology since 1901, we represent and promote psychology, psychologists and the wider psychological professions. Our membership is diverse, but we all share a passion for psychology and the impact it has ...
What is psychology? | BPS
Clinical Psychology involves the study and assessment of a wide range of mental and physical health problems, including addiction, anxiety, depression, learning difficulties and relationship issues, using a variety of methods such as psychometric tests, interviews and direct observation. View the Clinical psychologist job profile.
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This directory is designed to help you find a Chartered Psychologist offering services to the public in your area, and can be filtered by specialism and/or clientele as necessary. The Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) are the regulator for Practitioner Psychologists in the UK. Search the Directory of Chartered Psychologists.
Post-nominals: what do they mean? - BPS
Oct 3, 2023 · Post-nominals are letters or abbreviations that appear after your name to show your qualifications, honours, memberships or other awards. They are a concise way to show your achievements and make it easy for potential employers, course tutors or service users to understand your background and credentials.
Why (almost) everything you know about Milgram is wrong
May 15, 2018 · Why (almost) everything you know about Milgram is wrong. Ella Rhodes reports from a Stephen Reicher keynote at the Society's Annual Conference in Nottingham. Standing in front of a keen psychology audience, Stephen Reicher (University of St Andrews) said he felt like he was at a primary school to tell children why Santa wasn't real.
Code of Ethics and Conduct - BPS
Dec 8, 2021 · This code, which has been produced by the Ethics Committee of the British Psychological Society, focusses on four primary ethical principles: respect. competence. responsibility. integrity. Each of these principles is described by a statement of key values and accompanied by a set of standards which lay out the precise forms of ethical conduct ...
Methods: Interpretative phenomenological analysis - BPS
Oct 8, 2011 · If you study, research or teach within the applied psychologies, you will no doubt have heard of the fashionable qualitative method interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA: Smith et al., 1999; Smith & Osborn, 2003). Indeed, between the years 1996 and 2008, there were 294 empirical papers published, indicating the increasing popularity of ...
Theories of the autistic mind | BPS
Feb 15, 2008 · This newer theory explains the social and communication difficulties in autism and Asperger's syndrome by reference to delays and deficits in empathy, whilst explaining the areas of strength by reference to intact or even superior skill in systemising (Baron-Cohen, 2002). ToM is just the cognitive component of empathy.
BPS Code of Human Research Ethics
Apr 5, 2021 · BPS Code of Human Research Ethics. This code lays out a set of general principles that are applicable to all research contexts and which are intended to cover all research with human participants. The attached document, written by the BPS Working Party on Ethical Guidelines for Psychological Research and updated in April 2021, is designed to ...
Deception in psychological research – a necessary evil? | BPS
Aug 26, 2011 · Deception, it is argued, is a necessary evil, often required to provide the necessary 'technical illusions' and increase the impact of a laboratory or field setting, such that the experimental situation becomes more realistic and reduces the effects of participants' motives and role-playing behaviour. The ensuing debate over deception and other ...