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How can acceptance and commitment therapy help carers in challenging times such as the COVID-19 pandemic?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can acceptance and commitment therapy help carers in challenging times such as the COVID-19 pandemic?

...thinking’ (such as the more commonly known CBT approach), the focus of ACT is on how to create a meaningful life despite the difficulties that we all encounter in life. It is therefore a very useful therapy where peoples’ worries and low mood are a valid response to a difficult situation. Whilst ACT is a type of therapy that can be completed with the support of a...
Fermanagh: The backdrop to the G8 summit
Science, Maths & Technology

Fermanagh: The backdrop to the G8 summit

...systems keeps the grass well-watered, with lower sunshine totals and a more equable temperature regime - milder winters and cooler summers. Fermanagh’s underground world Three hundered million years ago (the Carboniferous System), what was to become Ireland was to be found around the equator as part of a continent called Laurentia. The land was desert where wind-blown...
The Origins of the Idea of the Industrial Revolution
History & The Arts

The Origins of the Idea of the Industrial Revolution

...system and Watt’s steam engine, but draws attention away from the progress of craft industries for many years beforehand. Eighteenth-century writers such as Joshua Gee, Adam Smith, and Adam Anderson recognised the earlier rise of manufactures (see A Gradual Revolution?). So how did such perceptions come to be marginalised? [Thomas Percival] Thomas Percival First...
Principles and practices of peace education
Education & Development

Principles and practices of peace education

...thinking about the world beyond the classroom. The course introduces theories and practice of peace education from across the UK and beyond. As well as simple, practical ideas for use in the classroom, it offers links to materials for further study and curriculum planning. This course will also be relevant for people working with children and young people in informal and...
Rights and justice in international relations
Society, Politics & Law

Rights and justice in international relations

...system based on universal principles of justice? This free course, Rights and justice in international relations, takes a critical view of the assumption that 'rights are a good thing' and looks at the problems that arise when they are applied in the international arena...Can the concept of human rights be applied across borders or are rights culturally specific? Is it...
About the stroop test
Education & Development

About the stroop test

...thinking. We look in the correct direction before crossing the road; we travel to work without consciously making decisions about the route. Being able to do these things automatically frees up our brain to work on other, more important issues. However, on some occasions, being able to prevent ourselves from doing things automatically, or avoid the usual routine action,...
Enduring Love
Health, Sports & Psychology

Enduring Love

...think when I saw him I was 18 and Owen was 31, and he was the one, I knew immediately he was the one I was going to marry. Title: for better or worse Ann Well I did actually ask you to marry didn’t I? Owen No, yeah. Well we were sitting on these… Ann Because you were not going to get round to it. Owen I wasn’t holding back particularly, but the thought hadn’t...
Children’s perspectives on play
Education & Development

Children’s perspectives on play

...think about their view of play and their reasons for playing. When children have personal freedom to choose and make decisions about what and who they want to play with, as well as where they want to play, they are highly self-motivated and active in their engagements with everything around them. In this course you will think about how you listen to children’s...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs