Honeycomb Psychology: The Podcast

Have you heard about Animal-Assisted Therapy? It's a way of incorporating specially trained animals in therapy - and the benefits can be numerous! Tune in to hear about just some of what research has shown out furry friends can help with.

We use this episode as a broad starting point to start a conversation about whether movies do justice to mental health. Are the representations accurate? How do films affect the discourse around mental illnesses, treatment-seeking, and vice versa? Let's try an understand this with a few examples and important considerations!

How has the pandemic impacted the way research happens? As with everything else in our lives, COVID-19 really made plans for research go all topsy-turvy - and this is sure to have long-term effects too. Listen in to find out not just what went wrong, but some of the ways in which researchers did what we do best - adapted to the situation!