Such a great day of learning with and from members of the Fredericton community about IPV awareness & resources, and building healthy relationships! Love Shouldn't Hurt

Here we go! Published online yesterday. Helpful to inform evidence-based policing specifically re: use of force documenting and training thereof

Thrilled to share new research on the predictive role of baseline emotion dysregulation on treatment dropout in outpatients w/ BPD; co-authored w MacGillivray Smith Dr. Margo C. Watt Dr. Jacquie Cohen & Dr. Marie-Eve Couture! psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/pe…

Making a list and wrote “purpose” instead of “purple” …. Feeling pretty good about a parapraxis of that sort 😂

“a strong sense of purpose can be not only lifesaving but a key component of your own pathway to fulfillment” Side bar - Hoping to see branches of positive and clinical psychology increasingly integrated in the near future!

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Spoke with at CTV Atlantic today about the shortage of psychologists in NB CPNB, including need more @CPA_SCP accredited internships, + $ for more faculty to train grad students UNB & UMoncton

Very interesting. Words matter for men, too. And so do the perceptions that concepts cast broadly emit.

Dr. Carmen Gill sharing her work on amending the Criminal Code of Canada to include coercive control! What a great start to our event UNB Fredericton in collaboration with Love Shouldn't Hurt and Muriel McQueen Fergusson Centre (MMFC)

Andrea Wolfe from Liberty Lane discusses how acute mental health crises and inability to meet basic needs are contributing to higher and more severe IPV case loads

Meranda McLaughlin from Muriel McQueen Fergusson Centre (MMFC) discussing the need to address offender needs to reduce IPV

“Dr. Margo C. Watt reviews some of Canada’s most compelling contemporary criminal cases, appropriately situating them in a legal and historical context, as well as in the scientific literature.” Dr. Meg Ternes Saint Mary’s University Read a free excerpt: bit.ly/48dfRSK #Psychology #Law

Very excited about this program of research and looking forward to seeing what emerges from the data 🤓🧐

Progress is being made in New Brunswick on trauma informed, evidence-based police investigative interviewing practices for complainants of sexual assault. We're happy to contribute to training. cbc.ca/news/canada/ne…

Esoteric PSA: “begging the question” doesn’t mean that a premise begets a question. It refers to a fallacy whereby the premises assume a conclusion is true, failing to explain why it is so. I’ve known since a 4th yr BA phil course, but didn’t have the assertiveness to say so😅

1/ There’s some confusion in therapy circles about the the meaning of the word “empathy,” because it is used to refer to two very different things One is empathy as an internal experience of the therapist—we are able to feel together *with* the patient, because we can identify

It’s easy think you have all the answers about mental health and illness when you -don’t treat patients -have no skin in the game -think ideology is knowledge -your views are never tested by encountering reality

It’s a mistake to outsource most writing to AI. Even if the output is accurate and engaging, something valuable is lost in the process. Jotting down intuitions and spelling out hunches is how we develop and refine our ideas. Writing is where we do our best thinking.

Having spearheaded the term “toxic masculinity” and fostered a therapy culture that paints men as privileged oppressors, it finally registers on American Psychological Association that men are trailing on virtually all measures of social/emotional wellbeing. One eye-opening