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Something is indeed cooking… The Trauma-Informed Approach (TIA), which emerged in the 1990s (Bloom, 2013) has gained traction over the past 20 years, with staff training being a key intervention used in efforts to implement it in the UK (Purtle, Continue reading Something’s cooking: Trauma-Informed Approach Implementation through Staff Trainings
“It’s like putting together a puzzle without all the pieces”. “I try to grasp with one sense, information intended for another.” Extracts from the essay “Seeing at the Speed of Sound” by Rachel Kolb Despite adjustments in healthcare, like newborn Continue reading Mind the Gap: Understanding the Different Developmental Trajectories of Spoken Language in Deaf and Hearing Children
Universities have responded to the pressing issue of graduate employability by introducing career services. Despite the wealth of resources at their fingertips, a concerning trend persists: student engagement with career services is low. Why is that? Let’s uncover this together. Continue reading Understanding Cultural Influences: Exploring Factors Contributing to Low Student Engagement in Career Services
Are you tired of waiting months for a fleeting window with your doctor, only to find you’re left with a laundry list of unanswered concerns? If you’re nodding along, you’re not alone. This frustration is all too common for those Continue reading Beyond Diagnosis: The Journey of Self-Monitoring in Parkinson’s
Our attention shapes our reality. It controls the information that we focus on, the details we notice, influencing how we understand and experience the world around us. But here is the interesting part: it works both ways! Our reality, including Continue reading Our Attention Shapes Our Reality but What Shapes Our Attention?
Picture this: one moment, you’re cruising through life; the next, you’re face-to-face with a spinal cord injury (SCI). It’s sudden. It’s unexpected. It’s like life threw you a curveball without warning. But fear not, because there is a secret to Continue reading Mind Over Matter: The Power of Appraisals in Spinal Cord Injury Recovery
“There isn’t a stronger connection between people than storytelling.” – Jimmy Neil Smith. I wanted to start with a story that inspired my own research on ethnicity and mental health. Since I was a child, my grandparents shared stories of Continue reading Inspiring equality: the impact of ethnicity on accessing psychological support for families with chronic health conditions
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As the number of pedestrians increased in autonomous vehicle (AV) dilemmas, the willingness to save the pedestrians increased in British and Chinese cultures. Imagine there is a passenger in a self-driving car travelling down a main road on a Continue reading In an autonomous vehicle dilemma, does the number of pedestrians affect moral judgement in British and Chinese participants?
Can We Predict Upcoming Stuttering Moments? Imagine that there’s a word you want to say but it just isn’t coming out – this frustrating feeling is similar to what many people who stutter (PWS) experience in daily life. 🗣What is Continue reading Secret Power of the Human Ear: Can We Predict Upcoming Stutters from Preceding Fluent Speech?