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The term in the book's title – positive tipping points – may not be familiar to people. Can you explain the difference between negative and positive tipping points? A tipping point is where a small change makes a big difference to a system. Lean back on a chair to the balance point. There, a tiny nudge one way or another can determine whether you end up back upright or in a very different state – sprawled on your back on the floor.

I am a practitioner Occupational Psychologist working in the civil service. When I look at the academic occupational psychology literature I see five clear tensions, which shape how easily we can apply academic research to real organisational problems, and each comes with a request for change. Perhaps, even if you work in a different domain of Psychology, you recognise these tensions: 1. Universality over applicability 2. Cleanliness over complexity 3. Novelty over synthesis 4.

Congratulations on the award Huw. How does it feel for your work around traumatic brain injury (TBI) to be recognised by the BPS? Fantastic. The acknowledgement that our research and clinical practice have shaped and improved lives is a great moment, not as a personal career milestone, but in recognition of the excellent teams I've worked with here at the University of Exeter, and across UK neurosciences and globally.

The government's SEND reform proposals are at risk if the shortage of Educational Psychologists (EPs) isn't urgently tackled, according to new research commissioned by the BPS. The new report Educational psychologists in Englandfrom the Education Policy Institute (EPI), provides the first comprehensive national assessment of the EP workforce since the Covid-19 pandemic.

How do we imagine the future? From life's big decisions to 'what will I fancy eating for dinner?' – how do our brains think about the future? Neuroscientist Scott Cole explains that our hippocampus facilitates episodic future thinking by providing a framework called 'scene construction'. This can be thought of as the first stage of assembling a jigsaw puzzle: finding the corner pieces, the main details, and positioning them relative to each other.

When I learned about narcissistic abuse, it was like a veil lifted. I thought, 'there's a name for this terrible pain, chaos and confusion in my life!'. I was someone with a career I loved, a doctorate, I ran marathons, I was an active mum, yet at home I wasn't ok. I never knew what mood my (now ex) husband would be in. I could never get it right. I was a strong, confident person, and yet, over time, I found my nervous system becoming overwhelmed and frazzled.

This is the second in a series of articles in which Ian Florance revisits psychologists he has previously interviewed. In earlier conversations, they described what they thought the future held. How accurate were their predictions? Have psychologists' lives and practice changed since then? Are they optimistic or pessimistic about the future? Here, three more 'Psychologist interview alumni' answered these and other questions.

I had the privilege of attending the British Psychological Society's SEND white paper workshop last month which addressed how the BPS should respond to the SEND reforms consultation. As a parent of two children with complex needs, who are unable to attend school, this consultation is significant, and, the proposals frankly terrifying.

Login as a British Psychological Society member, at the top of this page, for access to author-narrated audio. Almost 30 years ago now, Martin Seligman argued that psychology had become too heavily focused on understanding mental illness. His provocation contributed to the emergence of positive psychology, which focuses instead on mental health, understanding the factors that help people live happy, meaningful lives. A similar rebalancing is starting to emerge for social health.

ADHD, Autism, Government and politics, Mental health, Neurodiversity The Department of Health and Social Care has published the interim findings from the independent review into mental health conditions, ADHD and autism. 08 April 2026 By BPS Communications The government has published the interim findings from the independent review into mental health conditions, ADHD and autism.