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- Positive psych workshop at Uni of Chester on quality of life & work. Please RT & share this! shopfront.chester.ac.uk/index.php?main… … … … Thank you! :-) 3 months ago
- Positive psych workshop at Uni of Chester on quality of life & work. Please RT & share this link! shopfront.chester.ac.uk/index.php?main… … … Thank you! :-) 3 months ago
- Great upcoming one-day workshop at Uni of Chester on quality of life & work. Please share this link! shopfront.chester.ac.uk/index.php?main… … … Thank you! 3 months ago
- Fantastic upcoming one-day workshop at Uni of Chester on quality of life & work. Please share this link! shopfront.chester.ac.uk/index.php?main… … Thank you! 3 months ago
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Author Archives: drjezphillips
Right…I’m back.
Hi everyone, I just wanted to post to let people know that I am back now and that the blog will be re-starting soon. I, unfortunately, had some health problems over the last few months that kept me away from … Continue reading
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Guest Blog from Insp Michael Brown: Policing, Mental Health and the Academic Gap
I am hugely grateful to Inspector Michael Brown of the West Midlands Police (known as @MentalHealthCop on Twitter) for taking the time to write this excellent piece as a guest blog. I became aware of Michael’s work via Twitter and … Continue reading
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Tagged mental health, mental illness, police, policing, Psychology, Research
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Mental Illness as a Cause of Offending Behaviour? A Critical Look at Prevalence Rates
Reblogged from Craig Harper: Prevalence rates of mental illness in UK prisons are estimated at 90% (Mental Health Foundation, 2011), with comparisons between the prevalence of these common mental health diagnoses within forensic settings and the general population indicate that … Continue reading
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The Offender Profiling Series. 1 – What is Offender profiling?
Offender profiling is a subject of great controversy. It has been widely portrayed in film and TV and yet the realities of this process, and of its usefulness, are so often misunderstood. Profiling is not, as many would have you … Continue reading
Tweeting Police and Fear of Crime: How will the research work?
Firstly my sincere thanks again to everyone for helping out with this project. I have had some brilliant support from many members of the police and public who have helped spread the word about it and got people following and ready to … Continue reading
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Tagged fear of crime, police, policing, Psychology, Research, social media, social networking, Twitter
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The Relationship between Mental Health and Crime: Links and Resources.
The relationship between mental health and crime, as with that between the brain and crime, is one that is both complex and controversial. The media has, unfortunately, often represented this link in a negative way, leading to the perception that … Continue reading
Twitter Addiction: Fact or Fiction?
Any quick internet search will bring up a variety of studies suggesting that using Twitter, and other social media, can become addictive. Indeed, one study earlier this year argued it is more difficult to resist than tobacco or alcohol. (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/9054243/Facebook-and-Twitter-more-addictive-than-tobacco-and-alcohol.html) So can … Continue reading
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Tagged addiction, Brain, Cognition, Information processing, social media, social networking, Twitter
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The Brain and Crime: What is the relationship here?
The relationship between brain function and criminal activity is an area of huge controversy and debate from scientific, legal and philosophical perspectives. Essentially the key issues here are these: does brain dysfunction lead to criminal behaviour and, if so, what … Continue reading
The psychopath: Facts and research resources
Of the many disorders represented in film, books and other media the psychopath, and the condition of psychopathy, is perhaps one of the most misunderstood. Psychopathy is an extremely complex, and often controversial, issue. Debates rage in terms of its’ … Continue reading
I Tweet therefore I am? Twitter, Self and Identity
Understanding ourselves has always been fundamental to human nature. Indeed, many fields of psychology focus on understanding how we form the sense of ‘I’ or ‘Me’, something that is essentially encapsulated in two concepts: self and identity. The notion of … Continue reading
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Tagged identity, Information processing, self, social media, social networking, Twitter
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