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Neurodivergence and the menopause: a personal journey
Health, Sports & Psychology

Neurodivergence and the menopause: a personal journey

...adult services. I also taught for The Open University and delighted in the variety of my work, which included teaching, practice tutor roles and delivering residential schools, which were large, a real thrill and great fun. Gradually, despite enjoying my various work roles, I began to be a bit more worried about everything, doubting myself and feeling muddly. I was overly...
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...
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...
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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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...
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,...
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...
A history of child protection
Education & Development

A history of child protection

...adults. It took Evangelical philanthropists like Shaftesbury to urge the Factory Acts through Parliament, limiting the hours that children were allowed to work in factories, mines and cleaning chimneys. So neglect and exploitation may have existed but were accepted. What about cruelty, then - was that deemed unacceptable? Again, no. Much cruelty took place in families and...