Speakers
Professor Julie Hulme
Nottingham Trent University
Julie Hulme is Professor of Psychology Education at Nottingham Trent University. A National Teaching Fellow and Chartered Psychologist, Julie has an international reputation for her work on psychological literacy, and enjoys applying her own psychological knowledge and skills to creating inclusive learning opportunities for students. A long-time friend of the ATP, Julie is a former Further Education teacher, and Past Chair of the BPS Division of Academics, Researchers, and Teachers in Psychology. She believes passionately that transformative education should be available to all. Find out more at https://www.ntu.ac.uk/staff-profiles/social-sciences/julie-hulme, and follow Julie on X @JulieH_Psyc.
Title: Psychology? It's a Mickey Mouse subject...is it?
Growing numbers of students are taking psychology at A level or equivalent, and at university in the UK. At the same time, there has been a persistent political discourse about the lack of value of psychology as a subject (for example, in the Augar Report), partly based on employability metrics from universities. Julie will share with us why psychology is one of the most valuable subjects that students can learn, because it enables them to meet their personal, professional, and community goals through a concept known as psychological literacy. Equip yourself with answers for questioning students, sceptical parents, and any politicians you happen to bump into - and find out more about the competences that you and your students can put to use to make a difference in the world around you.
Professor Amanda Roberts
University of Lincoln
Amanda Roberts is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Lincoln, UK, with a PhD in Behavioural Neuroscience from Cardiff University and previous research and lectureship positions at UK academic institutions including Kings College London, The Institute of Psychiatry, Queen Mary University London, The Wolfson Institute, and UEL. She has numerous multidisciplinary national and international collaborations including an honorary research contract at the National Problem Gambling Clinic and a Research Fellowship at the Gambling Addictions Research Centre, AUT, NZ. Amanda's research interests include the evaluation of gambling harms treatment programmes both in the community and in UK prisons, and additional interests extend across topics that relate to gambling comorbidity, gambling in vulnerable populations, homelessness, women and gambling, suicide, and gambling and interpersonal violence.
Title: Disordered Gambling: Harms, Trends, Patterns and Treatment.
Whilst gambling does not result in problematic behaviour in the majority of individuals, a significant and appreciable number go on to experience serious social, financial, legal and emotional harms. For almost half a million of individuals in the UK, gambling is no longer a recreational pleasure but has escalated to become a full gambling disorder. The disorder often results in serious negative consequences including illegal activities and crime, domestic violence, self-harm/ suicide and tends to cluster with other high-risk behaviours such as alcohol and substance misuse.
These problems and interpersonal harms can have large effects on families, and studies have documented associations with disordered gambling and relationship difficulties including marital dissatisfaction, reduced family stability, the worsening of intimate relationships and family dysfunction. Some of these dysfunctional relationships evolve into violence, and there is growing evidence to show that gambling related harm is a specific risk factor for family and intimate partner violence. The first part of the presentation will document analysis that was carried out to investigate the relationship between gambling and violence in nationally and internationally representative samples. The findings highlight the need for gambling treatment services to undertake routine screening for alcohol, violence and IPV and to tailor treatment for clients who present with such issues.
Another disruptive consequence of disordered gambling is gambling-related crime, and it has been suggested that disordered gamblers are three times more likely to be arrested than low-risk gamblers and seven times more likely than non-gamblers. To date, the impact and consequences of prisoners presenting with gambling related harm is unknown, and for those that do present with gambling harms, there is no standardised intervention established for use in prison. Next, the presentation will document some of our findings from a study carried out at a prison in the UK. In this study, we aimed to provide data on the prevalence of gambling in prison, and the relationship between crime and gambling, both before and within prison itself. We hope this data will provide the foundation for further funding to develop a screening tool for use in prison settings to assist in the identification of gambling related harm and assess the feasibility of developing and implementing a brief intervention.
Finally, the presentation will focus on treatment in the UK. The Gordon Moody Association (GMA) is the UK’s primary gambling-specific residential treatment facility, combining group and individual treatment programmes, in a community rehabilitation setting. Working with GMA, we sought to analyse the gambling behaviour and profile of treatment seeking gamblers. A snapshot of the data from the GMA will be presented showing that the current legislative framework overall in the UK is perhaps not quite doing enough to protect those most at risk. Related to this I will look at a brief pilot study investigating attitudes towards gambling in Primary Care settings and ask should it be General Practitioners who screen for gambling disorders in the first instance?
All our data sets have provided important information to clinicians, policy-makers and gambling legislators in the UK and beyond.
Professor Mark Forshaw
Edge Hill University
Mark is Professor of Health Psychology at Edge Hill University. He is a nationally and internationally recognised expert in training in psychology, and has consulted for a range of organisations across the world, both public and private sector, on training, continuing professional development, critical thinking, and leadership.
He founded and directs Crisis and Resilience Expertise (CaRE), a collaborative, multi-disciplinary home for researchers at Edge Hill University and beyond, working on any aspect of human crisis such as pandemics, terrorism, natural disasters and economic crashes.
He has previously been President of the Institute of Health Promotion and Education, a BPS Trustee, a member of the Registration Authority of The Science Council, a board member of the Occupational Safety and Health Consultants Register, and has been Chair of various boards and committees including the BPS DHP Training Committee, the Membership and Standards Board, the Board of Examiners in Health Psychology and the Qualifications Standards Committee. Until recently he served on the EFPA European Awarding Committee for the EuroPsy certification.
He is the author of many papers, and 12 books for students, health professionals and the public, most recently Health Psychology in Clinical Practice.
Title: Chemically Modified Minds: Are All Students on Drugs?
We know that alcohol is increasingly less popular with younger people in the UK. Does that mean it’s being replaced with other things, and what are they? Do we need to be concerned about what our students might be putting into their bodies? In this talk, we take a trip through the hazy world of chemically modified minds, and learn about the pressures younger people are under, and how that translates into use of a range of substances from the socially acceptable through to the little-known and legally muddled world of cognitive enhancement.
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