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The health impacts of FGM
Health, Sports & Psychology

The health impacts of FGM

...Research on the health impact and needs of women at menopause and in older age living with the consequences of FGM remains limited. The Bottom Line FGM causes a cascade of serious, lifelong health complications that undermine the wellbeing and life chances of girls and women. To meet their complex needs, dedicated, specialist and trauma-informed health and social care...
Who counts as a refugee?
Society, Politics & Law

Who counts as a refugee?

...research...Who counts as a refugee?: 1 The aspects and meanings of citizenship - The issues discussed in this course are considered in relation to different aspects and meanings of citizenship: people's legal and political status, their rights, opportunities to work, access to welfare, sense of identity and belonging, and practices of the everyday. Throughout human...
Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Effective writing in professional social work practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Effective writing in professional social work practice

...research and will help you explore what matters in professional writing...This free course, Effective writing in professional social work practice, will introduce you to the importance of writing in professional social work. It will develop your understanding of the different ways that writing forms an integrated part of professional practice in the UK. People are at the...
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...
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...
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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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...
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...