Newsletter – November 2020

Interesting Content and Research

• Early data suggests that COVID fatality rates were lower in countries with female leaders
• The impact of pets on mental health
• How to remember stories
• Contextual behavioral science can be used to understand psychedelic assisted therapy.
• “Awe Walks” Can Boost Positive Emotions Among Older Adults 
• Video demonstration of person centred/humanistic counselling
• Therapy could tackle COVID-19 mental health timebomb in schools
• What kind of person is prone to believing conspiracy theories?
• The Past Isn’t Objective: Your “Story” Is Your Responsibility
• On Needing to Find Something to Worry About (2 minute read)
• Mick Cooper’s Advice on Applying for a PhD in Counselling & Psychotherapy

Resources

• Video Playlist for Psychology Students (from GetPsyched)Includes videos on essay writing, lecture note taking, referencing, writing your dissertation, getting work experience as a psychology student, and best practices for qualitative and quantitative research. A Social Network for the Psychologically Curious (from Stillpoint Spaces)Our friends at Stillpoint Spaces London have just launched the world’s first ‘Psychology Social Network’. It’s completely free, and inside, you can explore psychology, in depth, with others who share your interests. The Best Online Therapy Services of 2020 (from eCounseling.com)

Online Courses, Events & Training

• Transforming Attachments: Can Psychotherapy Make You Secure?
• Human Diversity: Roots, Origins, Attributions and Projections.
• PCCS Books: CPD Day Conference
• Women’s Trauma Conference
• Polyvagal Essentials for Every Therapist with Deb Dana

Quotes to Ponder

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.” — Maya Angelou

“What we need to learn to do is to look at thought, rather than from thought.” – Steven C Hayes

“Discomfort is the price of admission to a meaningful life”― Susan David

“Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.” ― Oliver Sacks

“We don’t know where we’re going, we don’t know what’s going to happen, but no one can take away from you what you put in your own mind.” ― Edith Eger