| Description | Press Releases and drafts of press releases from British Psychological Society London Conference held 19-20 December 1994 at Institute of Education includes:
List of delegates and speakers, abstracts, programme, press team arrangements.
Press releases, drafts, contacts, abstracts and summaries
General press release about the conference
1. A Patient's Council for Broadmoor (Jennie Williams) - press release
2. Under-Report of Sexual Offences at University (Tim Jordan) - press release
3. Saving Lives of Sick Babies and Children (Jean Ware and Valerie Rees) - draft press release
4. Forgetting Bad Memories (Lynn Myers) - press release
5. Eyewitness Testimony: Does Being Sure Mean Being Right After All (Mark Kebell) - press release
6. The Proper Use of Hypnosis (Phyllis Alden);
7. Why Don't Women Get top Jobs? (Fiona Patterson) - draft press release, contact and coverage sheet, summary and abstract of paper 'Diverse Research Approaches to the Study of Women and Work';
8. Learning to Drive - Practice Makes More Perfect Thank You Think - draft press press release, contact and coverage sheet, summary and abstract of paper 'Learning to Drive: The Role of Formal Instruction and Informal Practice
9. Teaching Ambition (Tony Cassidy) - press release, contact and coverage sheet, abstract and summary of paper ''Relationship with Parents and Teachers As A Predictor of Self Esteem and Ambition';
10.Infertile Couples Need to Know More About Inheritance from Donors (Beth Alder) and Sperm Donors are Motivated by Payment (Rachel Cook) - press releases, contacts sheets, abstracts and summaries for papers given at symposium 'Psychological Aspects of Infertility and the Reproductive Technologies';
11. Blood Donation - Supply and Demand (Eamonn Ferguson) - press release, contact and coverage sheet, copy of paper 'Is Blood Thicker Than Water: Motivations To Give Blood';
12. Call Me, But Turn Off The Video (Clare O'Malley) - press release, contact and coverage sheet, abstract and summary of 'The Effects of Delay on Video-Mediated Communication';
13. Psychology At The Cutting Edge - contact sheet, abstract and summary of 'Psychological Aspects of Keyhole Surgery: A Survey of Practising Surgeons';
14. TV News and Your Personal Worries (Graham Davey) - press release, contact sheet, abstract and copy of paper 'The Psychological Impact of Negative TV News Bulletins: The Catastrophising of Personal Worries';
15. Homeless People Using Day Centres (Paul Norman) - press release, contact sheet, abstract and summary of paper 'Attitudes and Behaviour of the Homeless Towards Participating in London Outreach Programmes';
16. Dying of Embarrassment? Why Women Avoid Screening for Cervical Cancer (Alison Bish) - press release, contact sheet, abstract and summary of paper 'Predicting Uptake of Cervical Screening: The Health Believe Model Perspective';
17. Knowing The Risks - Young Women and Cervical Cancer (Noelle Robertson) - press release, contact sheet, summary and abstract of paper 'Risk Factor Awareness of the Aetiology of Cervical Cancer in a Young Educated Population';
18. Effects of Work Stress Worse for Men Than Women? (Tessa Pollard) - press release, contact sheets, summary and abstract of paper 'Stress Hormones Responses to Work: Tests of the Frankenhaeuser and Karasek Models';
19. The War Goes On (Nigel Hunt) - press release, contact sheet, abstracts and papers from seminar 'The Psychological Damage of World War II on Civilian Service Personnel and Prisoners of War; and Treatment Methods';
20. The Joy of the Empty Nest (Bernice Andrews) - press release, contact sheet, abstract and copy of paper 'Psychosocial factors in Self-Esteem Change';
21. Doing Their Stretch (John Kremer) - press release, contact sheet, abstract and summary of paper 'Physical Exercise and Mood State in a Long Term Prison Population';
22. Managing Public House Violence (Rosie Dickson) - press release, contact sheet, abstract and summary of 'Dealing With The Threat of Violence: A Study of Public House Managers';
23. Why Do Teenagers Try To Kill Themselves? (John McCartney), press release, contact sheet, abstract and summary of 'Investigating the Psychodynamics of Adolescent Suicide';
See also BPS/001/6/01/3/1/1 for programme and abstracts. |
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