Congratulations to Gozde Ozakinci, Associate Director of SDHI and Lecturer in Health Psychology, School of Medicine at the University of St Andrews who along with colleagues Sophie Lebel, Gerald Humphris, Belinda Thewes, Judith Prins, Andreas Dinkel and Phyllis Butow have recently had their paper ‘Current state and future prospects of research on fear of cancer recurrence’ published in the journal Psycho-Oncology
The full article can be found here
SDHI is delighted to announce a further Seminar to be held on Thursday 5th May 2016 at 2.00pm in room 1S05, Dahousie Building, University of Dundee
‘It’s All in The Detail – creative practices within social care’
A presentation by artists and their collaborators exploring the innovative work with people with profound learning disabilities on the Artlink Ideas Team
Please see seminar flyer for further information
All Welcome
If you would like to attend, please contact Rosanne Bell (r.c.bell@dundee.ac.uk)
Recent publication explores priorities in promoting access to maternity services for disabled women who also experience domestic abuse. 
New article highlights the taboos associated with and implications for sexual life of middle aged women in Lebanon.
SDHI is now the Scottish organisational member of the European Network for Training, Evaluation and Research in Mental Health (ENTER). ENTER’s Network Agreement reflects mental health care as “a major public health priority” across Europe and the need for cooperation among European partners. At present the Network has members from 14 European countries who are involved in clinical service provision as well as academic education and research, providing close links between academia and practice.
On the 2-3 June ENTER will host its 17th Annual General Meeting and Conference in St Andrews for the first time in collaboration with SDHI.
Congratulations to Kirsty Miller, Juliet Wakefield and Fabio Sani from Psychology at the University of Dundee who have recently had their paper ‘Greater number of group identifications is associated with healthier behaviour in adolescents’ published in the British Journal of Developmental Psychology
The full article can be found here
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