News Category: Blog

Imagine Health Weekly Blog - Managing those childhood tantrums

By Dr. Claire Conlon

This week we have a very practical guide on how to understand, prevent and manage childhod temper tantrums from our Clinical Psychologist, Dr. Claire Conlon.

Imagine Health Weekly Blog - Uncertainty

By Danielle Gaynor

This week, Assitant Psychologist, Danielle Gaynor draws from work by Barry Mason on uncertainty

Imagine Health Weekly Blog - Keep your engine running!

By Aoife O’Malley

This week we have some very practical tips from Senior Occupational Psychologist, Aoife O'Malley on how to help you to maintain concentration.

Imagine Health Weekly Blog - Reflections from the BPS Annual Conference 2013

By Dr. Ian Gargan

Dr. Ian Gargan reflects on a the BPS Conference last week and in particular a very interesting keynote presentation, which revisits Milgrams experiments on conformity

Imagine Health Weekly Blog - The Psychoactive Effects of Chocolate

By Fíona Kelly Meldon

This week we have a tasty piece from Consulting Psychologist, Fíona Kelly Meldon.

Imagine Health Weekly Blog - Taking a Positive Risk

By Kevin Scott

This week we have an encouraging piece from our Trainee Forensic Psychologist, Kevin Scott

Imagine Health Weekly Blog - Improving life one video game at a time

This week's blog comes from our budding Psychologist, Diego Garaialde.

Imagine Health Weekly Blog - I can resist anything except temptation, especially marshmallows

This week's blog comes from our budding Psychologist, Aishling O'Hara.

Imagine Health Weekly Blog - Running up that Hill

This week, we have an inspiring piece from our Administrative Assistant, Cathy Whelan.

Imagine Health Weekly Blog - Hope

By Lydia Doyle

This week's wonderful piece is from Occupational Therpaist, Lydia Doyle

Imagine Health Weekly Blog - ‘P’ is for Positive Emotion

By Dr. Aidan McKiernan

We welcome the return of the Imagine Health weekly blog with a great piece from Clinical Psychologist, Dr. Aidan McKiernan

Imagine Health Weekly Blog - The Importance of Nature for our Psychological Well-being

By Dr. Claire Conlon

This week's blog is a refreshing piece relating to the benefits of the outdoors. It is written by Clinical Psychologist, Dr. Claire Conlon.

Imagine Health Weekly Blog - The Nun Study: Act now to stave off Alzheimers Disease

By Dr. Bridget Carew

In this week's blog Clinical Psychologist Bridget Carew discusses some key findings from The Nun Study.  

Imagine Health Weekly Blog - Today is a New Day

This week's blog reminds us that today is what really counts.

Imagine Health Weekly Blog - Symptoms, diagnosis and an alternative approach

By Danielle Gaynor

This piece was written by Assistant Psychologist, Danielle Gaynor and was inspired by two recent conferences. It explores symptoms, diagnosis and an alternative approach to individuals expereincing distress.

Imagine Health Weekly Blog - Kindness

By Jennie Milnes

This week's blog by Assistant Psychologist Jennie Milnes discusses kindness. 

Imagine Health Weekly Blog - Motivation and Goal Setting

By Aoife O’Malley

This week's blog is a piece about motivation and goal setting by Aoife O'Malley, our Senior Occupational Therapist.  We hope that you enjoy it. 

Imagine Health Weekly Blog - A Behavioural Account of Depression

By Danielle Gaynor

In this weeks blog, Danielle Gaynor, Assistant Psychologist writes about behavioural activation as a tool in tackling depression.  

Imagine Health Weekly Blog - Interesting news items

By Dr. Ian Gargan

This week’s blog is a ‘pick n’ mix’ of news which has interested our Clinical Director, Dr. Ian Gargan over the past number of weeks.

Childrens’ Rights (by Dr. Ian Gargan and Ms. Danielle Gaynor)

By Danielle Gaynor

This piece aims to discuss children’s rights, in light of the forthcoming “Children’s Referendum” in the Republic of Ireland.

Imagine Health Weekly Blog - Poems Describing Abandonment

By Dr. Ben Charnaud

This week we have a touching contribution from our Consultant Psychiatrist Dr. Ben Charnaud. It comprises two poems about abandonment and the needy child.  They were given to Dr. Ben by a client who required five years of fairly intensive therapy. This client made a good recovery before they died of hepatitis and they gave permission to use the poems for teaching purposes.

Imagine Health Weekly Blog - Self-Compassion

By Danielle Gaynor

This week's piece was written by our Assistant Psychologist Danielle Gaynor, encouraging us to consider our shared sense of humanity.

Imagine Health Weekly Blog - Flow

By Lydia Doyle

This week's blog is a meaningful piece by our Occupational Therapist, Lydia Doyle

Imagine Health Weekly Blog - I have a therapist!?

By Dr. Aidan McKiernan

This week's blog is a candid piece reflecting on the benefits of personal therapy and written by Clinical Psycholgist Dr Aidan McKiernan.

Imagine Health Weekly Blog -  Psychology and Fainting

By Danielle Gaynor

This week's piece was written by our new Assistant Psychologist, Danielle Gaynor and addresses some of the psychological facors associated with fainting.

Imagine Health Weekly Blog - Stress and Memory Problems 05/09/2012

By Dr. Marie Claire O’ Brien

Imagine Health is delighted to announce the return of our weekly blog following a short break for the summer. This week's piece is a great practical guide to managing the effect of stress on memory. It is written by one of our Clinical Psychologists, Dr Marie Claire O'Brien.

Imagine Health Weekly Blog - The Role of Resilience in Recovery 25/07/2012

By Dr. Jane McNicholas

This weeks blog is an inspiring piece by Dr Jane McNicholas on the positive role of resilience in recovery...

Imagine Health Weekly Blog - I Am Who I Am (5/7/12)

By Dr. Ben Charnaud

This week's blog comes from our consultant psychiatrist, Dr. Ben Charnaud, and, refreshingly, is a video of a touching introduction from Dr. Charnaud to the Mental Health in Transition Seminar held in Newquay in March, 2012.

Imagine Health Weekly Blog - Living (28/6/12)

By Dr. Ian Gargan

This week's blog is about living and how we are constantly developing all the time regardless of age. It is written by our Clinical Director, Dr. Ian Gargan, and serendipitously falls on his birthday and in the week that he is inducted as chair of the Division of Forensic Psychology for the British Psychological Society - happy birthday Ian, a big week!