"We now frown upon doctors who used terms such as “moron” or “cretin” to describe those entrusted to their care. The term personality disorder will fare equally badly" My piece in @TheLancetPsych Full text via the link below 🙂 thelancet.com/journals/lanps…

Imagine how your inaction impacts your friends of colour edition.cnn.com/videos/us/2020… #Racism #ICantBreathe

4000 people today in my home town Perth, Australia. 4k people demanding justice for Floyd’s murder. The system that killed George Floyd in the US is the same system that killed Tanya Day in Australia. and an immeasurable amount of others.

I’ve said this so often - but as psychologists we understand that the first step to healing is that your pain & trauma is heard & validated. Such an important step towards that today. #blacklivesmatteraustralia

60000 in the streets of sydney!!!

Hey, well-meaning folks in the mental health system— You cannot ‘empower us’. Only we can empower ourselves. But you can notice your own power, acknowledge it, let go of it, and call out the misuse of power. And sometimes, you can support us when we seek our own power.

Fantastic to see - trial of e-health program for people with intellectual disability !!

Ageism, in fact, partly explains why delirium has not been worked up for stratified (personalised) medicine. This is an injustice, given quite how delirium there is in all care settings. My piece. drshibleyrahman.wordpress.com/2020/06/26/mak…

Awesome clip!

love this !

Stand against 1950's racist opinion thinly disguised as "academic commentary" published this week - e.g., "Cultural difference helps to explain ...puzzling things about the long-term poor: their tepid response to opportunity and the frequent disorder in their personal lives" #BLM

Publishing 20th Aug Other Tongues: psychological therapies in a multilingual world by Beverley Costa In this pertinent book Costa states that a profession practising talking therapy should consider carefully the challenges and opportunities working multilingually presents. 1/3

A much needed increase in psychology session rebates.

This is the time to ask each other 'What do you need?' This is the time to ask ourselves 'What do I have to give?' I've some books to post; will zoom on any subject you'd like. If you can pay, okay. If not, it doesn't matter. This is how humanity gets through crises: together.

Do we hear about this multi-trillion dollar rolling climate impact from economists? Of course not, because its time scale is greater than 10 years. And so they continue to 'predict' negligible effects on GDP in the face of apocalyptic destruction.

PRGuy Ok, this is from early 2020, but it still applies.

Congratulations to the fantastic effort by Lillian Richardson, a fifth year Masters of Professional Psychology student at ANU, for your work within the APSC in developing practice guidance to support agencies and staff working with objectionable material. apsc.gov.au/working-aps/di…

Are you a uni student? Do you work with uni students? Please participate in and share our latest research trial testing a new video-based program for improving mental health. Join here: anu.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0N… ANUPopulationHealth Centre for Mental Health Research

How are you doing? Its been a long couple of years for everyone - even psychologists ! What is the impact on your practice & wellbeing; what do you need to serve your community? We are gathering data to support recommendations and peak body advocacy Oh .. & you may win $50!