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How is a bench helping improve mental health in Zimbabwe?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How is a bench helping improve mental health in Zimbabwe?

...adults who sought care for unrelated complaints in 24 clinics across the city. Those who scored high on a mental health screening test were invited to participate. About half the participants met with health workers on the bench. The other half received standard care and education, including referral to a psychiatrist and medication. Prior to the programme, the health...
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We might end up being looked after by robots. How do we prepare for that?
Science, Maths & Technology

We might end up being looked after by robots. How do we prepare for that?

...care of robots. But that doesn’t mean he likes it...The game is simple, designed for a child and intended to teach users about diet and diabetes. I sit opposite Charlie, my diminutive fellow player. Between us is a touch screen. Our task is to identify which of a dozen various foodstuffs are high or low in carbohydrate. By dragging their images we can sort them into the...
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Displaced children of our time
Education & Development

Displaced children of our time

...adult. Those who are judged to be over 18 will lose the support and advice provided to child refugees: for instance, the UK requirement that children are cared for by the local authority. Instead, they are placed in unsuitable accommodation with adults, or taken to immigration removal centres - although children have since 2014 officially no longer been subject to...
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Understanding mental capacity Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding mental capacity

...adults in care homes and hospitals, andare now an amendment of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 in England and Wales.. New provisions known as the ‘deprivation of liberty safeguards’ (DoLS) were incorporated and came into force in April 2009. Later clarification of the deprivation of liberty was provided by a case known in shorthand as Cheshire West (2014). This case...
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The Centre for Children and Young People’s Wellbeing at The Open University
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Centre for Children and Young People’s Wellbeing at The Open University

...adult-focused projects that seek to build wellbeing among children and young people – so we work with children, young people, their families, and those who seek to support them, such as health advocates or policy makers. Addressing children and young people’s wellbeing in body, mind and media, the Centre currently builds research and advocacy on: Food, food practices,...
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Different cultures, different childhoods
History & The Arts

Different cultures, different childhoods

...adults, how they are different and what expectations are placed on them, change according to the society in which they live. Social anthropologists have shown this in their studies of peoples with very different understandings of the world to Western ones. Canadian Arctic: Acquiring understanding Jean Briggs has worked with the Inuit of the Canadian Arctic and has...
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Harry Potter and Parenting
Education & Development

Harry Potter and Parenting

...adult interference. But in J.K.Rowling’s Harry Potter series, the young hero’s parentless state is more than a mere plot device: it’s the emotional engine that drives the stories. As former Open University lecturer Janet Seden has written: ‘The strongest messages of J.K.Rowling’s books are those about the qualities needed for parenting, as the contrast between...
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Keeping Mum: learning how to be a father
Society, Politics & Law

Keeping Mum: learning how to be a father

...with young men themselves, suggests that many boys learn some of their most important adult skills – including how to be caring, involved fathers – as much from their mothers and from the other women in their lives. Perhaps we need to pay more attention to boys’ need for positive female role models if we’re to develop a new generation of well-adjusted young men....
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