The philosopher Rousseau once said that a life without privacy would be a life without sin. This maxim also holds true for the Dark Net....

In lectures I discuss how it is possible to reduce anxiety by shifting perspective from the emotional / immediate self to a detached /...

In lecturers I often discuss how the emotional brain takes the big decisions or hijacks the rational brain without us being aware of it. ...

I recently posted a short piece on real time feedback. This research suggested that gathering feedback was not enough to improve a...

Drinking occurs in a complex set of social interactions and expectations. An interesting study looked at how a range of people took the...

I was a very early adopter of real time feedback measures with clients. These tools measure the client response to treatment in each...

Young peoples drug and alcohol problems are rarely freestanding but linked to a wide range of other mental health and behavioral...

Two recent studies caught my eye on body language. In the first study the eye movements of of heterosexual students were tracked whilst...

How many times have you heard people deride counselling based interventions as just "talk." Interesting advances in brain imaging has...

Decision making is at the heart of many of the interventions I teach, like Motivational Interviewing.However people have different styles...

In lectures on human development people are often surprised when I suggest that the menopause was what made us human. The vast majority...

A recent study at Bath University of 200 teenagers has revealed interesting gender differences between teenage males and females with...

I have just been invited to speak at the Royal College of GPs 10th PCCSF conference in Birmingham.The theme is Safeguarding Adolescents...

The UK Government has announced its new Drug Strategy 2017. Building on similar themes as the previous strategy, its main impact will be...

In lectures regarding the functions of different human emotions, the topic that interests most participants is when I discuss the role of...

Driving under the influence of drugs, particularly cannabis, has become a mayor issue in recent years. In the UK, it is illegal to drive...

A new study has found what might be the link between the increased risk of developing alcohol problems after exposure to alcohol in the...

Ever felt like a big fish in a small pond in the work place? Recent research has cast light on this work place experience where the...

In training and lectures I discuss how depression can be side-stepped. Rather than over thinking, which is strongly related t depressive...

Studies of children growing in stressful environments always views them from a deficit lens. However, many of the behaviors that are...