Despite almost every Department of Education policy paper stressing the need for equity and inclusion in the Irish education sector, to date, the government has done nothing to address the stunning inequity in the training of psychologists in Ireland Norma Foley T.D Simon Harris TD

Journalist: Science proves that [x]. Scientist: One dinky new study under [x] conditions suggests [y], but more research is needed to replicate the findings and generalize them to other populations.

Fantastic work from #MIC student, Eibhlin Ryan, whose report on #JohnHume reflects on his life through the lens of lifespan development theory. Check out the latest issue of TheIrishPsychologist to read Eibhlin's report in full. Psychology@MIC Faculty of Education, Mary Immaculate College.

The absence of funding for the training of educational and child psychologists in Ireland has contributed to so many children and families being denied assessment and intervention services. Norma Foley T.D Simon Harris TD

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Systematic #review on the impact of continuous white #noise (or of broadband noise) on #sleep: "According to GRADE criteria, the quality of evidence for continuous noise improving sleep was very low, which contradicts its widespread use" sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Thank you to Marlee Bower and The Mental Elf for this lovely bite-size summary of my meta-analysis and systematic #review on #loneliness and suicide behaviour. Full text paper: please see suicideresearch.info/publications #WorldSuicidePreventionDay2020 #WSPD2020 nationalelfservice.net/mental-health/…

Excellent presentation from Psychological Society of Ireland on the need to invest in Ireland’s Psychological future. Equality of funding for Trainee Educational and Counselling Psychologists is essential.

In 1665 Cambridge University closed because of plague. Isaac Newton retreated to rural Lincolnshire. During his 2 years in lockdown he worked out calculus, the true meaning of colour, gravitation, planetary orbits & the 3 Laws of Motion. Will 2020 be someone’s Annus Mirabilis?

Trainee Counselling & Educational Psychologists will once again head to the #mentalhealth front lines unpaid & unrecognised for the work they will do during #COVID19 let’s do everything we can to make sure 2021 is the end of this unjustified inequity

HSE apologises for advertising seven unpaid psychologist roles ⁦@CareforPsychs⁩ independent.ie/irish-news/hea…

Here's my contribution: Types of SLEEP papers

Sleep has a huge time cost and we haven't evolved to get rid of it, so there must be some good stuff going on. I use this quote a lot in my presentations.

To break backlogs in mental health,we have to break down the barriers to getting psychologists onto the frontline €1.5m would address the inequitable funding trainee psychologists face in trying to qualify,which takes 11 yrs! Mary Butler TD Full clip: m.youtube.com/watch?v=dF79ft…

A new study led by Professor Clare Anderson (@sleepyclare) reveals that drivers with only three hours of sleep are 10 times more likely to be involved in a car crush. #Neuroscience #Research ow.ly/4cDE50ENTTH

Trainee Psychologists being exploited. Educational Psychologists have to work 250 days , being 2000 hours, for no pay. It is totally unacceptable. The non payment is totally contrary to the National Minimum Wage Act . I will explain here. Now I had raise…lnkd.in/eHwFbkA

Congratulations to all our DECPsy students on passing their vivas this week!

I am now offering educational psychology assessments at my practice in Portlaoise, by appointment only. For information about services, please get in touch. Email: [email protected] Phone: 089-4266-477 Website: SMCpsychology.ie #educationalpsychologist

As part my doctoral research, my supervisors and I investigated the impact of problematic smartphone use on sleep duration using objective data. The following article, just published in Behaviour and Information Technology, presents some of the findings. tandfonline.com/eprint/N57FBKP…