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Supporting babies and toddlers
Education & Development

Supporting babies and toddlers

...adults who support and care for them. The information in the boxes below is taken from the framework and describes what a child needs and what they enjoy as they develop. When you work with babies and young children you can use this information to help you make sure you’re responding to their needs effectively. Here I am! (0-12 months) ‘I need to feel safe and secure...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
5 reasons why exercising outdoors is great for people who have dementia
Health, Sports & Psychology

5 reasons why exercising outdoors is great for people who have dementia

...care of those living with dementia in long term facilities. Dementia is characterized by a range of cognitive impairments such as difficulty in speaking, communicating and understanding, memory loss, and disorientation in space and time. Some people may also present behavioral symptoms that make them more likely to enter residential care. The problem with declining...
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Article 10 mins
Sometimes a bunny is just a bunny: The Playboy brand and sexualisation of children
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sometimes a bunny is just a bunny: The Playboy brand and sexualisation of children

...adult sexual predators. Playboy's extensive range of merchandise for women, encompassing make-up, jewellery, stationery, bed linen and more, all bearing its recognizable bunny logo and frequently found in children's sections of shops, catalogues and websites, has been a particular object for campaigners. In fact, Playboy itself has denied deliberately targeting younger...
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Article 10 mins
Applying social work law with children and families
Society, Politics & Law

Applying social work law with children and families

...care. This climate also envisaged a capacity for the state to provide alternative parenting, where necessary: for example, residential care was seen as a primary service for children in need...Applying social work law with children and families: 2.1 Perceptions of children - Harding (1997) describes four ways to understand developments in the way children are perceived....
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Teaching assistants: support in action
Education & Development

Teaching assistants: support in action

...adult (other than qualified teachers) who provide learning support to primary aged children in the UK. A central feature of the teaching assistant workforce is its considerable diversity – in terms not only of titles and linked responsibilities but also of previous experience, formal qualifications, in-service training opportunities, ways of working and skills for...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
A hug for the brain: what does it mean to have a happy, healthy brain?
OpenLearn Ireland

A hug for the brain: what does it mean to have a happy, healthy brain?

...care of a healthy brain should be of the utmost importance. What does it mean to be healthy? The biomedical model of health is an approach that identifies health as the ‘absence of disease’ but does not consider psychological and social influences of health. However, being healthy is much more than the ‘absence of disease’. It’s about how you feel, how you...
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Article 5 mins
A Victorian Christmas: Christmas Day In The Workhouse
History & The Arts

A Victorian Christmas: Christmas Day In The Workhouse

...adult males, 394; adult females, 735; boys, 224; girls, 146; infants, 162. Christmas day fare, adults, six ounces of roast beef, one pound of potatoes, one pound of plum pudding, one pint of porter, one ounce of ten, a quarter of a pound of sugar, with tobacco, snuff &c. at the adoption of the adults, each; children, similar food, without limitation, and in the evening...
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Article 5 mins
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?

...adults who had received palliative care in the UK. Prospero - International Prospective Register of Systematic reviews CRD42020191393 https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/display_record.php?RecordID=191393 Vseteckova J, Jones K, Methley A, Boyle G, Garcia R (2020) A systematic review of the effectiveness of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) compared with other...
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Article 10 mins