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Child mental health: is it in crisis?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Child mental health: is it in crisis?

...cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). CBT is a form of therapy that consists of both behavioural components (i.e. understanding and making strategic changes to behaviours/activities) and cognitive components (i.e. making sense of and shaping/changing thinking patterns/cognitions). The evidence base supports CBT use for child anxiety issues, as it is an effective treatment...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Tackling juror trauma and stress
Society, Politics & Law

Tackling juror trauma and stress

...cognitive, emotional, behavioural, physical, and spiritual reactions to jury duty, with up to half of all jurors experiencing trauma in the form of headaches, sleep disturbances, isolation, PTSD symptoms, and depression. Trauma symptoms can cause significant impairment to the person’s overall adjustment and persist for decades if left untreated. It is therefore clear...
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Article 5 mins
Is sleep the secret of success?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is sleep the secret of success?

...cognitive) in the next waking period (Fullagar et al., 2015; Halson, 2014). Therefore the sleep an athlete has the night before and in the days leading up to a competition (e.g. Rugby World Cup final) is important. The challenge here is that athletes often report sleeping difficulties the night before an important competition due to pre-competition anxiety or excitement...
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Article 5 mins
What’s wrong with how nurses are portrayed in the media?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What’s wrong with how nurses are portrayed in the media?

...cognitive representations) to aid understanding, often drawn from stereotypes. If a person has limited exposure to healthcare, they will draw from their brain’s bank of schemas to help them understand. Media representations inform peoples’ schemas. However, stereotypes are inaccurate representations and can be unhelpful. This is seen in nursing, where media...
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Article 5 mins
What You Need to Know About Psychometrics
Health, Sports & Psychology

What You Need to Know About Psychometrics

...cognitive abilities (verbal, numerical, perceptual and spatial) are valid predictors of both job performance and training success, especially for job roles that require complex thinking. Psychologists use different psychological theories to inform the content of each psychometric test plus statistical techniques to demonstrate the test’s validity (measures what it...
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Article 10 mins
Success in Interviews - How to Use Psychology to Gain that Job!
Health, Sports & Psychology

Success in Interviews - How to Use Psychology to Gain that Job!

...cognitive function. However, don’t worry, high-power poses are not done in the interview! Cuddy et al. (2015) suggest doing these before a stressful event, such as an interview, is just as effective. And being aware of low-power body language within the interview may also help. Amy Cuddy explains power posing further below: 3: Competency-based interview questions...
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Article 10 mins
Childhood in the digital age
Education & Development

Childhood in the digital age

...cognitive development (as well as a mum herself). The other authors are Professor Natalia Kucirkova, who is a researcher in early literacy, with a specific focus on the role of new technologies, shared book reading and personalisation, and John Oates, Professor of Developmental Psychology in the Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies at The Open University....
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Influence of temperament
Education & Development

Influence of temperament

...cognitive and social development. There are several ways in which this can occur and these will be considered in turn. Direct effect of temperament on development A child with a short attention span and who is very impulsive is likely to experience difficulties in learning situations either at home or at pre-school groups (Tizard and Hughes, 1984). This example shows that...
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Article 15 mins