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Introducing professional practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing professional practice

...psychological and social factors A Culture of Blame: Changing Climate of Social Work Patrick Eyre, a social worker talks about 'the blame culture' in social work A Culture of Blame: Lack of Trust and a negative image Patrick talks about how the lack of a climate of trust has had a specific impact on child protection A Culture of Blame: The way forward Patrick looks to the...
The Financial Five a Day Podcast Series
Money & Business

The Financial Five a Day Podcast Series

...psychology research can help people in their everyday lives. In addition to presenting All in the Mind on BBC Radio 4 she has written Mind over Money, a book around the psychology of money and how to use it better. In this interview, she discusses the commercial pressures we are under to spend – and keep spending. She explores some common cognitive characteristics many...
Living with visual Impairment
Health, Sports & Psychology

Living with visual Impairment

...psychological aspects of eating and drinking. Seeing things differently Andy, a low vision officer with the RNIB in Wales, has been visually impaired for most of his life. He explains the difficulties he has experienced with new surroundings and how all visually impaired people see things differently. Sighted Guides Andy talks about sighted guides, and techniques they can...
Physical activity: a family affair
Health, Sports & Psychology

Physical activity: a family affair

...psychological, social and biological, that shape who we are and what we do, and the family we are born into and grow up in is certainly one of these factors. This course aims to explore the effects that the family has on the amount and nature of physical activity a child participates in. The beliefs and behaviours of the family environment are the key psychosocial factors...
Accessibility and inclusion in digital health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Accessibility and inclusion in digital health

...Psychological Therapies’ (IAPT) programmes including children and young people. While the Department of Health aimed to reduce waiting times in accessing services, more people were being offered the service and as a result, waiting lists significantly increased. This is a particular issue in Wales, where a significant amount of the population reside in rural areas and...
Can your friend be your therapist?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can your friend be your therapist?

...Psychological Treatment), and the informal support provided by friends and relations. The Collins Dictionary definition of ‘therapy’ is typical of many: ‘the treatment of physical, mental, or social disorders or disease’. More specifically the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) explains that: 'Counselling and psychotherapy are umbrella...
What makes near-future Sci-Fi especially scary?
History & The Arts

What makes near-future Sci-Fi especially scary?

...psychologically. The second series was particularly concerned with the rights associated with being able to think and feel – and the right to a fair trial. Odi, an outdated NHS caregiving Syth who features in both seasons, chooses a form of suicide (returning to his original setting and rejecting consciousness) as he can’t deal with his new reality. Transcript The...
Concussion, identity loss, depression: boxing’s toughest opponent isn’t in the ring, it’s mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Concussion, identity loss, depression: boxing’s toughest opponent isn’t in the ring, it’s mental health

...psychological complications, such as concussion, post-concussion syndrome (when the symptoms of a concussion don’t fade after the usual recovery period but linger for months or even longer), depression, anxiety, cognitive decline and movement disorders, and in some tragic cases even death in the ring. Repetitive TBI is associated with chronic traumatic encephalopathy...