Dr Catherine White

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Excited to hear that I have been successful in my application to join the BPS Division of Health Psychology (Scotland) committee!

Looking forward to seeing how we can make a difference for the network members! 😊

Hi everyone! I am taking on new clients for psychological therapy and health coaching, as well as consultancy requests. I am a chartered, HCPC-registered Health Psychologist.

I have some weekend and evening availability. Please get in touch to find out more 🙂

www.betterdayspsychology.co.uk

Empowering Consumers: The Right to Know About Alcohol and Cancer Risk - Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems In our latest blog, Dr Catherine White explains the importance of alcohol health risk labelling and the consumers’ right to know about the links between alcohol and cancer. When you buy breakfast cere...

🗣️Dr @catherinewh1te.bsky.social from @alcoholfocus.bsky.social explains the importance of alcohol health risk labelling and the consumer's right to know about the links between alcohol and cancer.

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Fab day at the University of Stirling graduation! ☺️👩🏼‍🎓 #StirGrad

Empowering Consumers: The Right to Know About Alcohol and Cancer Risk - Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems In our latest blog, Dr Catherine White explains the importance of alcohol health risk labelling and the consumers’ right to know about the links between alcohol and cancer. When you buy breakfast cere...

In our latest blog, Dr @catherinewh1te.bsky.social from
@alcoholfocus.bsky.social explains the importance of alcohol health risk labelling and the consumer's right to know about the links between alcohol and cancer.

Read here: shaap.org.uk/empowering-c...

Graduate’s toolkit will help intellectually impaired adults access cancer screening | About | University of Stirling Graduate’s toolkit will help intellectually impaired adults access cancer screening

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Newspaper article describing the See My Health toolkit

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Photograph of woman standing outdoors holding a university scroll

The Sunday Post ran an exclusive on the toolkit I’m developing to support people with intellectual difficulties to access cancer screening.

We’ll see if any other media pick up the press release over the next couple of days before graduation. Excited it’s getting out there! 😊

Thanks Steph! ☺️

Thank you! 😊

Thank you!

Thank you! 😊

OFFICIALLY DR WHITE! 🥳🎉

So pleased (and relieved!) that I passed my Viva earlier today with minor amendments! After over 9 years of study, I’m finally going to be a Health Psychologist!

So grateful to the ProfDoc team at the University of Stirling for all their support over the past 3+ years ☺️

Excited to hear I have been successful in this competition! This relates to a resource/product idea I had following on from my research, to support those with intellectual disabilities to feel able to attend cancer screening and to engage in decision-making around their health 🧡Will share more soon!

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Thank you! 😊

Thanks so much! ☺️ x x

Thanks Stephanie! 😊

Thanks Louise! It was on improving cervical cancer screening accessibility for those with intellectual disabilities, with a focus on the potential acceptability of HPV self-sampling 😊

After 3 years of the Professional Doctorate and over 1 year of my research project, my thesis is officially SUBMITTED!! 🥳🎉💫

Now to prepare for my Viva in April 😅

An evaluation of lived experience email peer support for young people with eating disorders Peer support is where individuals with the same shared experience provide mutual support. Using a non-controlled repeated measure design, this study evaluates initial efficacy of one-to-one email p...

Grateful to receive an acknowledgment in this paper, evaluating email peer support (SharED) for young people with eating disorders. I worked on this (and suggested the name 😂) at Beat, in partnership w/the NHS, a few years ago. A valuable and rewarding project 🧡

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Recently had to put together a case study for Masters students of my doctoral journey. Thought it could be useful to share here in case anyone was interested in the Professional Doctorate in Health Psychology!

Also highlights the differences from a PhD, with other competencies as well as research 😂

That’s a really good point. There’s a lot of emphasis on independent study & seeking out this info as a student. But it’s impossible to know where to start with little guidance (& impossible to know everything!). It would be great if there was more teaching on engaging with stakeholders, as you say!

I hadn’t looked at it like that, but that’s such a good point! We all have our strengths, so partnership-working makes complete sense (especially when someone who isn’t confident is going to take 2-3x as long to do it!). I’ve definitely been made to think you need to do it yourself for it to count!

Very true! It can sometimes be more overwhelming to feel like you’re the only one not grasping everything! Definitely wish I was more mathematically-minded though 😂

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Haha I feel like I’m very much missing these kind of people in my life! 😂

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Honestly, does anyone actually enjoy statistics??*🙈 Higher Maths is the only exam I’ve ever failed & I think I have some sort of inability to understand anything other than basic math! Like, what even is a Mantel Haenszel Test of Trend?! 🤦🏼‍♀️😩

*I know some do, just let me rant during thesis-writing 😂

Very much feeling this, this week with various responsibilities 😅 why did January feel so far away in December?!

hootenanny nearly upon us

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Ginger cat under the Christmas tree with big sparkling eyes.

Absolutely not in the festive spirit as I’m in the trenches with thesis-writing 😂 But hope that everyone had a wonderful Christmas and is enjoying some rest during Crimbo Limbo 🎄

Please enjoy some photos of our beautiful wee guy under the Christmas Tree 🥹🐱🧡

Absolutely, particularly with alcohol deaths & hospital admissions going up each year. I think we need a complete culture shift here, heavy drinking is so ingrained. But then even “moderate” drinkers are experiencing health problems. Although the Alcohol Industry won’t make any policy changes easy!