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Supporting and developing resilience in social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting and developing resilience in social work

...research expert in this area calls it ‘ordinary magic’. It is a quality and a process that can be enhanced and developed which is good news for social workers, who are typically required to manage change and complex, competing demands (Grant and Kinman, 2015, p. 5). In this free course, Supporting and developing resilience in social work , you investigate how you, as...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Networked practitioner: open or closed practice?
Education & Development

Networked practitioner: open or closed practice?

...research to inform personal initial views on openness; integrate decisions regarding online privacy and identity into choices to be more open or closed when working online; be aware of online networking and how such activity may develop and be visualised...Networked practitioner: open or closed practice?: 1 Investigating an open landscape - In this opening section Anne...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Promoting the effective management of children’s pain
Health, Sports & Psychology

Promoting the effective management of children’s pain

...researched and carefully developed it is important to ask: How can the framework above bring about change? The framework has a number of interconnected elements that focus on supporting health care staff, helping them become confident, adopting an individual approach to children and families, and empowering parents to become more actively involved in their child’s...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
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History & The Arts

A freelance career in the creative arts

...research and support. The majority of references are from online blogposts and articles. While there are many excellent books on this topic, the most up-to-date information is often to be found on the websites of relevant organisations and in blogs by creative entrepreneurs and industry leaders. The amount of online information available can be overwhelming, so this...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introducing the psychology of our relationships with fictional villains
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing the psychology of our relationships with fictional villains

...research on the relationships we form with fictional characters...This free course explores psychological theory and research on the relationships we form with fictional characters. Throughout the course you will hear from leading crime writers – Lin Anderson, Gordon Brown, Val McDermid, Sir Ian Rankin and Craig Robertson – who will talk about how they create and...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Teaching secondary science
Education & Development

Teaching secondary science

...research has revealed the stereotype view of the scientist as a white male Einstein lookalike (Reiss, 2002). Different images of scientists are present in the media today, but has this changed the images that children and young people have of science and scientists? Activity 3 Images of science Timing: Allow about 20 minutes Ask two or three children or teenagers who you...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
How many different types of smile are there?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How many different types of smile are there?

...researcher into smiles over the past 30 years has been Paul Ekman at the University of California. His 1978 Facial Action Coding System, written with Wallace V Friesen, seeks to create an atlas of nearly all possible human expressions. Ekman says, in his book Telling Lies, that their technique for measuring the face can distinguish over 50 different smiles. Confused?...
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Verbal fluency
Health, Sports & Psychology

Verbal fluency

...research that shows that different parts of the brain are involved in these two different tasks. Age is clearly a significant factor that affects performance; younger children tend to be less fluent than older children and adults. This has a lot to do with how many words are in a person’s vocabulary. One important aspect of verbal fluency is having a large vocabulary of...
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