After a week of reading dissertations, a well earned stretch!
This time, sharing some of my spouse’s work :) www.theguardian.com/uk-news/vide...
So thrilled to launch this international online conference on body image and appearance pressures/ideals, Sept 16-18th 2025.
Open to all scholars, incredibly low cost, and with two phenomenal keynote speakers ... please SHARE!
To find out more: lgboothroyd.webspace.durham.ac.uk/perspectives...
Huge congratulations again Sophie- testament to your talent and hard work!
LOVE this paper, featuring parents' neuro-affirming narratives about echolalia.
My son's echolalia brings him JOY.
Key message: 'Therapeutic' attempts to extinguish echolalia are cultural homogenisation. They deny the individual's autonomous identity.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Shout out to fantastic coauthors @veraaraujosoares.bsky.social Beth Ridley (joint first author), Martin Tovee, Piers Cornelissen, and Robin Kramer!
(2/2) AND people rightfully worry about categorising child weight in stigmatising ways. The more anti-stigma they are, the less they use these categories: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Time to consider NEW ways to communicate about this topic, prioritising child health & wellbeing first?
(1/2) New paper + thread
Lots of research critiques parents' so-called inability to visually categorise their child's weight as higher/lower than the mid range.
BUT ...
HCPs (& people without kids) can't do this either!
doi.org/10.1111/bjhp...
It's a PERCEPTUAL phenomenon, so why blame parents?
You’re recruiting pairs of clients and therapists -does this not by definition only recruit clients for whom a therapy ‘works’ (as presumably those it has not helped do not have an existing therapist pairing with which to participate)? Or have I misunderstood and this is intended- sorry if so!