Lucy Foulkes
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Lucy Foulkes is a British academic psychologist and writer on adolescent mental health and social development.
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3 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
- Education: PhD (2011 to 2015) and postdoc, University College London (opens wiqqi.app)
- Books: What Mental Illness Really Is (2021); Coming of Age: How Adolescence Shapes Us (2024) (opens wiqqi.app)
- Also: Honorary lecturer, University College London; senior research fellow, Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families (opens wiqqi.app)
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2 channels on ppll (opens ppll.app)
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8 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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The overdiagnosis of mental illness should not be treated as a yes/no question, since several things can be happening at once. (opens korrents.com)
“I argue we need to stop seeing this as a binary yes/no question - is overdiagnosis happening or is the increase real? - and acknowledge that multiple things can be happening at once”
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Every successful academic works very hard, but luck is always involved. (opens korrents.com)
“they work v hard but luck is always involved”
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The evidence on phones goes against the intuition that phones are bad, which is why Haidt’s book is popular. (opens korrents.com)
“the evidence base about phones goes against what intuitively feels true (that phones=bad). Which is why Haidt's book has been so popular - because it aligns with what people feel is right anyway”
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The overdiagnosis of mental illness should not be treated as a yes/no question, since several things can be happening at once. (opens korrents.com)
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3 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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Helping Your Child with Fears and Worries (opens rcmnd.app)
“My third choice is Cathy Cresswell and Lucy Willetts’s CBT book for parents called Helping Your Child with Fears and Worries.”
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Mindfulness For Health (opens rcmnd.app)
“Mindfulness for Health by Vidyamala Burch and Danny Penman.”
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Jog On (opens rcmnd.app)
“My last one is a more recent one, by the journalist Bella Mackie, called Jog On.”
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Helping Your Child with Fears and Worries (opens rcmnd.app)