Dr Liza Morton
@drlizamorton.bsky.social
Counselling Psychologist, Senior Lecturer GCU, Author | 📚Beyond the Medical Gaze: Practicing Psychologically Informed Healthcare ❤️🩹 https://linktr.ee/drlizamorton?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=d0ea16b4-77aa-4411-a762-7814a548c687 Personal Views
Taking time out to rest, my short blog explains why.. “During a medical crisis, the answer is not always to fight harder, think more positively, or keep going at all costs. Sometimes the task is to create enough safety to weather the storm; to coorie doon” www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/psyc...
A Reflection on Illness, Safety, and Adaptation
Chronic illness can cripple our sense of psychological safety, yet there are ways to cope when life's storms return.
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Some hospital inpatients get referred for Psychology input, & I'm open to this. We see a tiny fraction of inpatients. But ALL patients have psychological needs. 'Seeing a psychologist' is the wrong approach (& expensive). Psychological care should just be an integral part of normal, holistic care.
Cambridge University should have known better, Fleet Street should have known better, the people hungrily absorbing every bit of news about it, making newsrooms feel like they had to keep going with it as a story, should have known better, horrible horrible horrible
Very helpful blog here on WAITING in healthcare. Why it's so hard, & practical steps to reduce the burden of it. Thanks to @drlizamorton.bsky.social "Compassionate communication, therefore, is not simply administration; it is the cornerstone of healthcare."
When Waiting Becomes Part of Illness
When healthcare answers are delayed, the psychological impact can be profound. Why prolonged waiting can feel threatening, and how compassionate communication can help patients.
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Thank you to everyone that’s taken time to review my new book (Amazon and GoodReads) it means so much to get this feedback and engagement which also helps spread the word 📚 If you’ve read it, please consider taking some time to drop a review ❤️ More info and links here 👇🏻📚❤️ linktr.ee/drlizamorton...
When Waiting Becomes Part of Illness | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/psyc...
When Waiting Becomes Part of Illness
When healthcare answers are delayed, the psychological impact can be profound. Why prolonged waiting can feel threatening, and how compassionate communication can help patients.
psychologytoday.com
Writing a book chapter is a long journey, and I’m excited that this project is finally nearing the finish line. This coming October, "Psychologists with Lived Experience of Disability: Navigating Clinical Practice" will be officially released by Routledge.
Psychologists with Lived Experience of Disability: Navigating Clinical Practice
A wealth of guidance is available on supporting clients with lived experience of disability - yet there is little available that focuses on understanding the first-hand experience of psychologists who...
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On #ptsdawarenessday let’s consider, often neglected, medical trauma. Living with a chronic illness isn't just physically tough the medical trauma can completely change how safe we feel in our own bodies. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Psychological Safety, Medical Trauma and Adaptive Functioning in Long‐Term Conditions: A Multidisciplinary Integrative Approach
Living with a chronic health condition (CHC) can involve sustained exposure to uncertainty, bodily threat and disruption to identity, relationships and anticipated life trajectories. Although a subst....
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On #ptsdawarenessday let’s consider, often neglected, medical trauma. Living with a chronic illness isn't just physically tough the medical trauma can completely change how safe we feel in our own bodies. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Psychological Safety, Medical Trauma and Adaptive Functioning in Long‐Term Conditions: A Multidisciplinary Integrative Approach
Living with a chronic health condition (CHC) can involve sustained exposure to uncertainty, bodily threat and disruption to identity, relationships and anticipated life trajectories. Although a subst....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Living with a chronic health condition isn't just physical, it can fundamentally disrupts our sense psychological safety. Thrilled to share my new open-access paper in MultiPsych exploring medical trauma and long-term illness. 🧵👇
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Well done everyone! #wearescotland www.thenational.scot/news/2619197...
Thousands of anti-racism protesters drown out far-right rally in Glasgow
Thousands of anti-racism protesters gathered in Glasgow on Saturday in response to violent anti-immigration disorder that broke out in the city on…
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Fascists in Belfast set fire to buildings with people inside them. People of colour left work early to stay indoors. This is being actively encouraged by the world’s richest man whose openly pro-white nationalist platform X is still used by the UK government www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
‘There’s wee girls inside’: panic as masked men storm house in Belfast
Protests across the city turned violent on Tuesday night – with some police officers acting as if it wasn’t safe to intervene
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Psyching myself up to speak to a very medical audience about my work & lived experience in a session on ‘Life limiting arrhythmia in ACHD’ British Cardiovascular Society conference ❤️🩹
Really important message here from Liza about recognising & responding to emotional needs in healthcare. The hero/brave narratives can be invalidating...
Dr Liza Morton@drlizamorton.bsky.social · 4mo agoChildren in the hospital do not need to be heroes. They need to be allowed to be children who are scared, upset, resilient, and human. My latest blog for Psychology Today - Rethinking “Bravery” in Paediatric Healthcare: The Hidden Burden More: www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/psyc...
Excellent piece. "Compliance is rewarded" applies to so much of hospital care. Children accept what happens to them because they assume that's just how it is, but that doesn't mean they're not harmed in the process. Very refreshing to see entrenched societal norms challenged like this.
Dr Liza Morton@drlizamorton.bsky.social · 4mo agoChildren in the hospital do not need to be heroes. They need to be allowed to be children who are scared, upset, resilient, and human. My latest blog for Psychology Today - Rethinking “Bravery” in Paediatric Healthcare: The Hidden Burden More: www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/psyc...
Children in the hospital do not need to be heroes. They need to be allowed to be children who are scared, upset, resilient, and human. My latest blog for Psychology Today - Rethinking “Bravery” in Paediatric Healthcare: The Hidden Burden More: www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/psyc...
Rethinking “Bravery” in Paediatric Healthcare: The Hidden Burden
We call children “brave” when they are in the hospital, but do we silence their fear? It’s time to rethink hero narratives and support children’s emotional reality in care.
psychologytoday.com
Children in the hospital do not need to be heroes. They need to be allowed to be children who are scared, upset, resilient, and human. My latest blog for Psychology Today - Rethinking “Bravery” in Paediatric Healthcare: The Hidden Burden More: www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/psyc...
Rethinking “Bravery” in Paediatric Healthcare: The Hidden Burden
We call children “brave” when they are in the hospital, but do we silence their fear? It’s time to rethink hero narratives and support children’s emotional reality in care.
psychologytoday.com
“This was a state visit that was less an exercise in diplomacy than full-throttle distraction and denial.” My col. in tomorrow’s paper on Trump’s royal visit and legitimising the indefensible. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
King Charles’s White House visit was an exercise in full-throttle distraction and denial | Frances Ryan
A few days of joviality will hardly change American foreign policy or guarantee Trump’s ever-erratic affections for long, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
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“Psychological awareness cannot stop at the hospital door. Until psychological well-being is treated as foundational rather than supplementary, healthcare systems will continue to exacerbate distress… at a cost we can no longer afford to ignore.” www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/psyc...
When Trauma Awareness Stops at the Hospital Door
Healthcare policy and practice poorly address psychological well-being for patients or practitioners. We must move beyond the medical gaze towards a psychologically informed approach.
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My new blog ‘When Trauma Awareness Stops at the Hospital Door’ for @psychologytoday.com (3 min read) www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/psyc...
When Trauma Awareness Stops at the Hospital Door
Healthcare policy and practice poorly address psychological well-being for patients or practitioners. We must move beyond the medical gaze towards a psychologically informed approach.
psychologytoday.com
My new blog ‘When Trauma Awareness Stops at the Hospital Door’ for @psychologytoday.com (3 min read) www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/psyc...
When Trauma Awareness Stops at the Hospital Door
Healthcare policy and practice poorly address psychological well-being for patients or practitioners. We must move beyond the medical gaze towards a psychologically informed approach.
psychologytoday.com
"All we say to America is, 'Be true to what you said on paper.'" These words — spoken by MLK Jr. shortly before he was killed on this day in 1968 — ring just as true now. Let's honor his legacy by continuing the fight for social and economic justice.
I don't think that you will guess what chatgpt's explanation of this cartoon is
We've seen a lot of divisive language and misinformation about people seeking safety lately. This is the reality of claiming asylum and being a refugee in Scotland 👇
