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Challenging ideas in mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Challenging ideas in mental health

...coding. But guess what I’m called in England or the UK? ‘Other’. And it’s that otherness that is part of my identity, and I believe that mental health discrimination is that otherness which is sometimes indefinable. But you pick it up – this overt and covert discrimination. I call it ‘psychophobia’: fear of mental illness. And there are certain conditions....
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Effective writing in professional social work practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Effective writing in professional social work practice

...simple terms, when writing a description, the social worker is providing factual information. This could be information that has been directly observed by the social worker or has been provided to them directly by someone else. Here are some examples: Description: Rhiannon is 4 years old Anup informed me that she has lived alone at the same address for 18 months Mr...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Entrepreneurship – from ideas to reality Badge icon
Money & Business

Entrepreneurship – from ideas to reality

...simple question with an obvious answer. However, a number of related questions arise from this. The first one probably ought to be, are they customers at all? Here are some examples to illustrate: Customers are those that purchase a good or service. If you go to a vegetable supplier and buy a box of avocadoes for your ‘pop up’ café, you are being a customer, but not...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Robert Owen and New Lanark
History & The Arts

Robert Owen and New Lanark

...simple and so obviously beneficial that any thinking person could understand them. Owen evidently presented Place with a manuscript, asking if he would read and correct it for him, but whether this consisted of the first two essays or all four is unclear. Friendship apart, Place was incredulous that Owen believed he was the first to observe that ‘man was a creature of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Introducing social work: a starter kit
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing social work: a starter kit

...codes of ethics and statements of required behaviours (BASW, 2014, for example) are mechanisms for translating and codifying professional philosophies into practical guidance for deployment and use. Calder (2015) argues that the hallmarks of ethical competence incorporate a knowledge of ethical codes, principles and rules, combined with a capacity to engage in dynamic...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Ratting out disease: How animals are detecting disease - and other threats to life
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ratting out disease: How animals are detecting disease - and other threats to life

...code. Two of the boxes in each line are shaded grey. The tick has been placed in one that is white. It’s highly possible that Charles has just saved someone’s life. Charles is an African giant pouched rat, a species endemic to sub-Saharan Africa. He’s also a pioneer, one of 30 of his species that live and work here in Morogoro, a few hundred kilometres west of...
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Article 5 mins
Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis

...simple scale (Hickman, 2020). However, she cautions about using it too rigidly or in an overly clinical medicalised way. This is a shortened version of her scale. Mild Some feelings of upset, but not constant Reassured that others have the answers Little disruption in cognition/thinking Medium Feeling upset more frequently (e.g. weekly) and more strongly Fundamental...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Exploring Ovid’s big ideas
History & The Arts

Exploring Ovid’s big ideas

...simple fact of being alive is something shared with plants, but we are looking for that which makes humans special. We must therefore set aside nutrition and growth, those activities that are simply for the purpose of living. Next, we could consider activities like perceiving and feeling, but these things too are shared with horses, oxen and most other animals. What...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs