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Supporting adult learners’ positive mental health Badge icon
Education & Development

Supporting adult learners’ positive mental health

...University staff (charliewaller.org) Guide on conversations about suicide for college staff (charliewaller.org) Helping someone in a mental health emergency: How to help someone seek mental health support (Mind) Common myths about suicide: Myths about suicide (Samaritans) Supporting someone who you are worried about: If you’re worried about someone else (Samaritans)...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Child mental health: is it in crisis?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Child mental health: is it in crisis?

...University course K119 Wellbeing across the lifecourse....Child mental health: is it in crisis?: Introduction - Welcome to this free course, Child mental health: is it in crisis?. There is much discussion about the issue of children and young people’s mental health problems in the media in the United Kingdom, and we often hear this issue referred to as a ‘crisis’....
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
However you feel about it, Labour's manifesto offers a choice
Society, Politics & Law

However you feel about it, Labour's manifesto offers a choice

...university tuition fees would be scrapped under Labour, at a cost of over £11 billion, Conservative welfare reforms – such as the bedroom tax – would be reversed. That, and additional funds to bolster universal credit and housing benefit would cost an estimated £4 billion. Labour also wants to build a million new homes, at least half of which will be social housing...
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Article 5 mins
Methods in Motion: Is Q still the answer?
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Is Q still the answer?

...universals but historical and cultural products. Some models, for example, used a version of sincerity similar to that invented by the romantic poets, whilst others – agreeing with existential philosophers – thought of it as closer to authenticity. As a result, I came to think of social psychology less as a search for universal laws, and more as a discipline whose...
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Article 5 mins
Should human conditions be classed as illnesses?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Should human conditions be classed as illnesses?

...Jerome, (2007) The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow into Depressive Disorder, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Lane, Christopher (2008) Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness, New Haven: Yale University Press. Wessely, Simon (2013) ‘Do we need to change the way we are thinking about mental illness?’ the Observer, 12 May 2013....
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I-SPY: Find out more about the research on Internet infidelity
Health, Sports & Psychology

I-SPY: Find out more about the research on Internet infidelity

...University is the first in the UK which asked people with experience of internet infidelity how it impacted them, providing a fascinating insight into how internet infidelity is directly affecting 21st century relationships. The study was based on an anonymous online survey with 239 adults from 18 to 73 years old. The research used open as well as closed questions, which...
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Article 10 mins
How can education contribute to sustainability?
Education & Development

How can education contribute to sustainability?

...University MA Education are doing...The environment is one of three key drivers for education for the future identified on our Masters in Education (Learning and Teaching) qualification as urgently needing our attention as educators. In our Badged course Looking Globally: The Future of Education, in relation to an environmental issue affecting where you live, learners are...
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Can microplastics find their way onto your plate?
Nature & Environment

Can microplastics find their way onto your plate?

...University, looks into this here...Find out more about The Open University's Environment qualifications. “Only One Earth” is the motto of 2022’s World Environment Day . It will focus on the need to live sustainably in harmony with nature, and our possibilities for shifting to a greener lifestyle. It reminds us that our planet is our only home, and we must safeguard...
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Article 10 mins