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Ren

@renburd.bsky.social

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Trainee counselling psychologist, dog-mum. Passionate about the art of, and the arts within psychotherapy. Also interested in TV comedy, and occasionally existential philosophy. Views my own.

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Fred Callaway @fredcallaway.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

As a field, can we please stop interpreting statistical insignificance as evidence that an effect doesn’t exist? Pretty please?? Like, with a cherry and everything??? #PsychSciSky

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Ren @renburd.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

*Please consider and kindly *repost* for further reach!* If you're a HCPC-registered (UK-based) counselling psychologist, who has used expressive arts in trauma focused psychological interventions (even ONCE!) please scan QR code or go to forms.gle/sHsJBBXyTGay... #psychology #PsychSky #PsychSciSky

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Dr Julia Shaw @drjuliashaw.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Obsessed with the term "neuromyths" 🧠 #education #psychsky #neuroscience #neurosky #neurosci #psychscisky #brainscience #edsci #research #educatorsky #neuroskyence

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 10/11/2024

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Ren @renburd.bsky.social · 03/11/2024

🧠 RESEARCH RECRUITMENT: PLEASE CONSIDER AND SHARE💫 (1/3) Have you completed psychotherapy in the UK that has addressed or sought to address traumatic experiences? Did the therapy use expressive arts? @bpsofficial.bsky.social @academic-chatter.bsky.social #PsychSciSky forms.gle/bbJeM8WqjVuu...

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Ren @renburd.bsky.social · 03/11/2024

Here goes, first post! I'm a trainee counselling psychologist in Scotland, hopefully will qualify in a year. Spinning a million plates, and have discovered bluesky, so why not spin one more? 😅 This place seems a bit less of a cesspit than 'the bad place'...? 🤞

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Academic Chatter @academic-chatter.bsky.social · 23/04/2024

Still makes me laugh

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Dr Lucy Foulkes @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

"A person’s own sense of their life, their trajectory and commitments and emotions are first reduced to nine questions and then to a single number" Fascinating paper by Armstrong & Byrom, reflecting on the PHQ-9 and using this as the standardised measure of depression tinyurl.com/mr3w3bnm

An anthropological critique of psychiatric rating scales

Neil Armstrong and Nicola Byrom

This article discusses sceptical arguments about measurement scales. Measurement scales are part of a promising agenda of openness, transparency and patient and public involvement (PPI) in medical research, but have received critical, sometimes hostile attention from anthropologists. This is because scales repackage localised cultural assumptions about distress as something universal and pan-human and have the capacity to reshape people's interior lives in unhelpful, possibly harmful ways. We take as an example the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9). Use of the PHQ-9 is currently mandated by major funders. But its history suggests flawed PPI and a lack of openness. The article suggests a constructive role for anthropology in mental health research, using ethnographic evidence and theory to show how, although they have their uses, mental health scales should not be regarded as inert or harmless.

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