Achieve Psychology

Key questions. What is currently stabilised into an agreed ‘problem?’ What does the person want to achieve? i.e. what do they want to...

I want to talk briefly about learner-making and Total Words. Total Words www.totalwords.com  is an example of a learning system that is...

How are we going to make sense of behaviour if not by naming behaviour patterns? How do we avoid having to invent a personal...

I was talking with Year 3 boy in a South London school and asked him what he liked to do when he got home after school. I never would...

Evidence does not tell us what is real.  Evidence tells us what we are capable of recognising. Example: I visited a school last week. The...

I don't think labelling behaviours is the most useful way to understand bebhaviour. I also don't want to spend too much time clashing...

This approach hasn't worked to keep people healthy; it focuses on a illness or difference narrative. Professionals are trained as agents...

There are three tools in the outcome-making toolkit: words, actions, time. All of these have agency. All three of these make an...

Agential Realism Opens Up the Toolkit Psychologists write reports on people. We use a battery of tests, measures, talk of skills in...

Behaviour happens because it can. That is not at all helpful, but if we give up thinking that each person is inventing their own unique...