Volume 22 - Part 6 - (June 2009)
Social cognitive theory goes global
Social cognitive theory goes global
Albert Bandura spoke to a packed audience at Friends House on 22 April about how he is abating urgent global problems by psychosocial means
Page Numbers: 504-507
Get a second life
Christian Jarrett on the benefits (and dangers) of using virtual worlds in your psychological research, therapy and teaching
Page Numbers: 409-493
Siblings – friends or foes?
Alison Pike, Tina Kretschmer and Judith F. Dunn on what the research says about achieving a harmonious household
Page Numbers: 494-497
Giftedness and the brain
Christian Hoppe and Jelena Stojanovic look towards the neural mechanics behind talent
Page Numbers: 498-501
‘Return to work’ revisited
William J. Fear argues that people on incapacity benefit need a psychosocial intervention rooted in self-efficacy
Page Numbers: 502-503
Forum
Including speaking up for IAPT; being adult about humour; climate change – answering the sceptics; statutory regulation – where next…? and more
Page Numbers: 466-471
News and media
including the ‘treatment’ of homosexuality; new psychology award; self-screening; psychologists and torture; genetic links to autism; and much more
Page Numbers: 472-479
Conference
Reports from the Society's Annual Conference in Brighton, including lots of web extras in the html version
Page Numbers: 480-487
Book reviews
Including how brain science is changing our world; Straits and Narrow; Fundamentals of Psychology; Working with Ethnicity, Race and Culture in Mental Health; and more, including web extras
Page Numbers: 510-511
Society
Including President’s column; Award for Promoting Equality of Opportunity; Data protection notification; Award for Outstanding Doctoral Research Contributions to Psychology 2008; and more
Page Numbers: 516-519
Careers
Ian Florance talks to Gesthimani (Manya) Merodoulaki about her views on the role and practice of counselling psychology; Carol A. Ireland looks beyond the TV and media portrayals at forensic psychology; and featured job
Page Numbers: 536-539
Looking back
Gustav Jahoda on the German philosopher and psychologist Johann Friedrich Herbart, and his view of the mind as a starry sky of Newtonian forces
Page Numbers: 558-559
One on one…with Dorothy Rowe
Clinical psychologist and writer
Page Numbers: 560