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  Open your mind to Psychology Courses
The British Psychological Society is a name familiar to most students in Britain studying psychology.
Founded in 1901, the society is the professional and learned body for psychologists in the UK, and has more than 35,000 members.
You should always ask the institution where you hope to study whether the degree course you are interested in is accredited by the Society and whether this accreditation is for Graduate Basis of Registration, or for Graduate Membership.
www.internationalgraduate.net /psychology.htm   (712 words)

  
  British Psychological Society - Ethical Principles
It is essential that all members of the psychological profession abide by the principles if psychologists are to continue to retain the privilege of testing human participants in their research.
Principles of conduct in professional practice are to be found in the Society's Code of Conduct and in the advisory documents prepared by the Divisions, Sections and Special Groups of the Society.
Members of the British Psychological Society are expected to abide by both the Code of Conduct and the fuller principles expressed here.
ethics.iit.edu /codes/coe/british.pyschological.soc.html   (2099 words)

  
 British Psychological Society - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The British Psychological Society (BPS) is the representative body for psychologists and psychology in the United Kingdom.
[3] The Society's view is that "Psychotherapy, as well as the use of hypnosis with psychotherapy, is most appropriately regarded as a post-qualification specialisation for members of one of the primary professional groups such as medical practitioners, applied psychologists or social workers." The BPS maintains a register of Psychologists working as Psychotherapists.
The Society's offices are currently in Leicester in the United Kingdom.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_Psychological_Society   (560 words)

  
 British Society of Clinical Hypnosis - Professional Hypnotherapy
The British Society of Clinical Hypnosis (BSCH) is a national professional body whose aim is to promote and assure high standards in the practice of hypnotherapy.
A hypnotic state occurs normally in everyone when certain physiological and psychological conditions are met and with the assistance of a skilled hypnotherapist it is possible to use this state in hypnotherapy to make deep and lasting changes to thoughts, feelings and behaviour.
The society is begining to develop a truly international flavour as higher standards of training become available in other parts of the world.
www.bsch.org.uk   (370 words)

  
 Mental Health Organizations And Events BRITP to BRITZ
The British Psychodrama Association [BPA], the accrediting organisation for psychodrama and sociodrama training organisations, was established in 1984 to promote and encourage the use of psychodrama throughout the United Kingdom.
The British Society for Population Studies [BSPS] is a non-profitable society of persons who have demonstrated a scientific interest in the study of human populations.
The main objectives of the Society are to further the scientific study of biological, economic, historical, medical, social and other disciplines connected with human populations and to contribute to the public awareness of these problems.
www.umdnj.edu /psyevnts/meetingsBRITPBRITZ.html   (1135 words)

  
 Links: Society for Music Perception and Cognition
The Acoustical Society of America: (ASA) The premier international scientific society in acoustics, dedicated to increasing and diffusing the knowledge of acoustics and its practical applications.
The British Psychological Society: (BPS) Aims to advance scientific psychological research, and to further the co-operation of investigators in the various branches of Psychology in Great Britain.
Society for Research in Psychology of Music and Music Education: Society aiming to provide an international forum for researchers working in the fields of psychology of music and music education.Especially encourages the participation of younger members (students and postgraduates) reflecting the range of interests that are represented within the psychology of music and music education.
www.musicperception.org /pages/links.html   (906 words)

  
 House of Commons - Health - Minutes of Evidence
The British Psychological Society is the academic and professional organisation of psychologists in the United Kingdom.
Psychological interventions and treatments generally find favour with and are sought after by service users.
Additional psychological input to support young people their families and their teachers and carers in their normal home and school environment at an earlier stage in their difficulties is seen by all agencies involved with children as vitally important.
www.publications.parliament.uk /pa/cm199900/cmselect/cmhealth/373/0051103.htm   (2297 words)

  
 About The British Psychological Society   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The British Psychological Society is the scientific society and professional body for psychologists, incorporated by Royal Charter in 1965.
The Society is a learned and professional body controlled by the Roylal Charter.
This means that their primary duty is to preserve and nurture the discipline on behalf of the nation.
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 British Society of Aesthetics
Legend has it that the British Society of Aesthetics (BSA) was founded in 1960 so that Herbert Read could lead a delegation of British Aestheticians to the International Congress on Aesthetics being held in Athens that year.
The Society's activities include publication of the British Journal of Aesthetics and a newsletter, an annual conference held in Oxford, regional conferences, joint conferences with Aestheticians from Scandinavia, the Netherlands, Greece, Italy and Germany, lecture series, and grants to support aesthetics events.
This entitles you to the four issues of the British Journal of Aesthetics, published in January, April, July, and October of each year (including access to the journal on-line), regular Society newsletters, and participation in the Society's activities, including its Annual Conference, held at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford in September.
www.british-aesthetics.org   (353 words)

  
 Psychology
He is a Fellow of the British Academy and an Honorary Fellow of the British Psychological Society.
He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, the American Psychological Association and the National Council for Family Relations.
A former associate editor of the British Journal of Social Psychology, he is currently editor of the European Journal of Social Psychology.
www.blackwellpublishing.com /intropsych/authors.html   (1435 words)

  
 NHS Exposed - The Truth Behind The White Coat   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The society has remained coy regarding the proceedings and have been silent regarding a potential police investigation into their conduct under the Harassment Act 1997.
It seems ironic that the British Psychological Society who stated this week “The Society would not condone the abuse of either psychiatry or psychology”; appears to be engaging in the abuse of psychiatry themselves.
In summary, the British Psychological Society is not a creature of statute.
www.nhsexposed.com /healthworkers/psychology/british-psychological-society-brotherhood.shtml   (1913 words)

  
 British Psychological Society Research
It was a six month longitudinal study with users completing a self-review of their psychological state each month.
They were asked to circle the descriptors that best reflected their psychological state.
The changes in the users' psychological state over the course of the program was dramatic, from a significant difference in the direction of negative descriptors outstripping positive ones at the start, to significant differences in the opposite direction for all subsequent assessments.
www.thetesgroup.com /BPSresearch.htm   (457 words)

  
 PgD/MSc/Practitioner Doctorate in Counselling Psychology: Postgraduate Study: Psychology: Life Sciences: Glasgow ...
In fact, the Division of Counselling Psychology within the British Psychological Society is now the second largest division of the Society, even though it was only formally established in 1994.
The programme will be delivered jointly by the Counselling Unit at the University of Strathclyde on a full or part-time basis in year 1 and on a full-time basis only in years 2 and 3.
The programme is aimed at graduate psychologists (with British Psychological Society registration) with a demonstrable interest in counselling psychology.
www.caledonian.ac.uk /sls/Psychology/study/counselling.html   (496 words)

  
 British Psychological Soc
Many students and psychology graduates are actively encouraged to join the British Psychological Society by being promised the benefits of membership of a learned society and the inclusion on their mailing list for 'The Psychologist' and its Appointments Memorandum (Sits.
Since British academic psychology now basks squarely in the shadow of American research, nothing of any consequence is coming out of our universities.
In 1984 at the AGM of the BPS at Warwick University, it was decided to make the society much wealthier and efforts were put towards equalling the business acumen of the National Union of Students.
www.andrewwalton.co.uk /the_british_psychological_society.htm   (1869 words)

  
 British Pharmacological Society   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The British Pharmacological Society is pleased to announce that Kate Baillie BA (Hons) MA, MBA has been appointed its Chief Executive Officer.
The Society is pleased to announce that following the success of last year’s competition, the British Pharmacological Society in collaboration with Trends in Pharmacological Sciences will again be holding a Young Pharmacologist of Year competition and prize symposium at its Winter Meeting in Brighton More..
To establish strong links with pharmacologists in China a team of senior British pharmacologists visited several centres of excellence in basic and clinical pharmacology to learn about their work and to provide information about the work of the BPS and its journals.
www.bps.ac.uk   (260 words)

  
 The Society
The British Psychological Society is the representative body for psychology and psychologists in the UK.
A forum for Fellows of the Society to discuss current and emerging issues.
The British Psychological Society is a registered English charity
www.bps.org.uk /the-society/the-society_home.cfm   (219 words)

  
 House of Commons - Health - Written Evidence
The British Psychological Society welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the Committee's inquiry into the development of the Electronic Patient Record and its use.
The Society is the learned and professional body, incorporated by Royal Charter, for psychologists in the United Kingdom, has a total membership of over 45,000 and is a registered charity.
The key Charter object of the Society is "to promote the advancement and diffusion of the knowledge of psychology pure and applied and especially to promote the efficiency and usefulness of members by setting up a high standard of professional education and knowledge".
www.publications.parliament.uk /pa/cm200607/cmselect/cmhealth/422/422we15.htm   (1311 words)

  
 British Psychological Society offers a new research resource
Located at BPS headquarters in London, the archive also has a growing collection of psychological test materials as well as historical documents and meeting minutes that outline the history of BPS from its founding meeting in 1901.
Other British psychologists whose books, letters and other documents are featured in the archive include Leslie Hearnshaw, Charlotte Wolff, J.C. Raven and Albert Cherns.
The archive also includes 300 boxes of research reports and unpublished papers--many marked classified or restricted--of the Applied Psychology Unit of Great Britain's Medical Research Council, which, since the late 1940s, was involved in military psychology research and research on extreme environments, instrumentation and short-term memory.
www.apa.org /monitor/dec03/british.html   (193 words)

  
 Legal
Whilst The British Psychological Society has made all reasonable efforts to ensure that the information available on this Web Site is true and accurate in all material respects it is essential that you verify all such information with The British Psychological Society before taking any action in reliance upon it.
It is a condition of The British Psychological Society allowing you free access to the material on this Web Site that you accept that The British Psychological Society will not be liable for any action you take in reliance on the information on this Web Site.
Upon leaving this Web site through a link The British Psychological Society will not be liable for any subsequent actions you take, or liable for any information not on this Web site.
www.bps.org.uk /additional-pages/legal.cfm   (206 words)

  
 Zurückliegende Zeitschriftenjahrgänge in Original und Neudruck von British Psychological Society .
British Psychological Society lagert den aktuellen Jahrgang und die letzten 2 Jahre der gelisteten Titel.
- BRITISH JOURNAL OF HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY covers all areas of psychological factors relating to health and illness across the life span, including experimental and clinical research on aetiology and the management of acute and chronic illness, responses to ill health, screening and medical procedures, research on health behaviour, and psychological aspects of prevention.
Wenn Sie ein Abonnement für den laufenden Jahrgang einer Zeitschrift aus der British Psychological Society wünschen, klicken Sie bitte hier.
www.periodicals.com /g/bps.html   (548 words)

  
 List of British professional bodies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Membership of a professional body does not necessarily mean that a person possesses qualifications in the subject area, nor that they are legally able to practice their profession.
Many of these bodies also act as learned societies for the academic disciplines underlying their professions.
In cases where membership of or a professional qualification from a chartered professional body is necessary to practice a profession, the EU regulations require that suitably qualified people from other states in the European Union are also allowed to practice in the UK and vice versa.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_British_professional_bodies   (276 words)

  
 British Academy | Events - 2007 Joint British Academy/British Psychological Society Annual Lecture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Professor Robin Dunbar was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1998.
He is a Project Director of the British Academy Centenary Research Project ‘Lucy to Language’: The Archaeology of the Social Brain, and is shortly to leave the University of Liverpool to take up the post of Director of the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Oxford.
In 2002, following the centenary of the British Psychological Society, the Academy and the Society set up a joint annual lecture.
www.britac.ac.uk /events/2007/lectures/bps.html   (234 words)

  
 The British Psychological Society
It is both a thriving academic discipline and a vital professional practice.
Psychologists and psychological research have a big impact on all aspects of public life, particularly in areas such as education, health, the economy, industry and social justice.
The Society has national responsibility for the development, promotion and application of psychology for the public good, and promotes the efficiency and usefulness of its members by maintaining a high standard of professional education and knowledge.
www.bps.org.uk   (200 words)

  
 The Stroke Association - British Psychological Society
The British Psychological Society (BPS) is the representative body for psychologists and psychology in the UK.
Psychologists working with stroke patients may be members of specialist Divisions of the Society, such as the Divisions of Clinical Psychology, Neuropsychology, Counselling Psychology or Health Psychology.
The Society also provides a Register of Chartered Psychologists, which is available for the public to check the qualifications of practising psychologists and a Directory of Psychologists offering services to the public.
www.ukstrokeforum.org /about_us/coalition_organisations/british_2.html   (169 words)

  
 RDFunding- Research and Development Information Charity Details   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Broadly, the Society aims to raise standards of training and practice in psychology, raise public awareness of psychology, and increase the influence of psychology practice in society.
The Society was formed in 1901 and has more than 45,000 members.
Through its Royal Charter, the Society is charged with overseeing psychology and psychologists.
rdfunding.org.uk /Queries/ListCharityDetails.asp?CharityID=1593   (126 words)

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