The COVID-19 pandemic has been long-term both in length and impact on the health of many Australians. Among the effects of long COVID are ongoing psychological needs. While close to 50% of people who have had COVID-19 may experience psychological distress during or following i...

Published May 2022

You’re on a boat in the middle of the ocean that’s slowly filling with water. It’s sprung a leak and with every passing moment the water level is rising. You grab a bucket and frantically try to scoop the water out before the boat sinks. Realising it’s not working, you grab a ...

Published Aug 2022

Mobile phones are becoming increasingly pervasive in our lives. So much so that for many people, it’s almost impossible to imagine life without their phone. The potential for problematic mobile phone use (PMPU) has increased as mobile phones have evolved from a device devoted ...

Published Oct 2017

The paradox of perfectionism is that it promotes behaviour that is far from perfect. In its grip we strive to be our best and often become our worst; unforgiving, rigid and abusive. On a good day, perfectionism can motivate us to strive towards our potential and see the pot...

Published May 2019

Activity monitoring involves the client recording what they do and how they feel over the course of a week. This information can help the psychologist and their client examine links between the client's behaviour and mood. Later, this information can be used to make changes...

Last reviewed Apr 2018

Last reviewed May 2019

Anorexia nervosa is a mental and physical disease that was recognised in France in the 19th Century, usurped for England by Queen Victoria’s physician, and subsequently adopted by many thousands of Americans. (Beumont, 1991) According to those grand narratives embodied in ...

Published Jul 2017

Cannabis is the most commonly used illicit drug of dependence in the Western world according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (2012). The effects of cannabis dependence on health and psychosocial functioning are often under-recognised, and under-treated, in pri...

Published Jun 2017

I began my training as a nurse in the UK and while working on a female medical ward, found myself drawn to those patients who were obviously (at least to me) having psychological problems as well as physical health issues. This led me to further training in psychiatric nur...

Published Jun 2017

Not just p-values and confidence intervals It was actually while I was training to become a preschool teacher that I started my fascination with, and in hindsight, my commitment to psychological science. I remember learning about Milgram’s (1963) obedience studies, Zimbardo...

Published Feb 2019