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myf.cymru – Mental health through the medium of Welsh
Education & Development

myf.cymru – Mental health through the medium of Welsh

...psychology techniques. Both apps are available to download on Apple and Google Play app store. Please note as this resource is aimed at Welsh speakers, not all website content has been translated into English. myf.cymru is a Welsh language mental health and wellbeing project and website for students. The resources have been created in partnership with Bangor University,...
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What does it mean to be trauma informed in practice?
Society, Politics & Law

What does it mean to be trauma informed in practice?

...psychological safety. It will facilitate training in trauma and have specially trained peer supporters who can provide an informal gateway into further support if required. The Occupational Health unit will be able to facilitate access to psychological support. Organisational policies and working practices will have a TI lens applied. The SLT will give support for and...
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Does fiction make people more empathic and is that a good thing?
History & The Arts

Does fiction make people more empathic and is that a good thing?

...psychology, it can refer to a range of processes from emotion contagion (‘catching’ someone’s feeling), to reading facial expressions, to interpreting someone’s beliefs or motivations. And that’s only half of the picture. Fictional stories can be long or short, engaging or boring, complex and hard to read or easy and straightforward. They might be told in the...
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Attention
Society, Politics & Law

Attention

...psychological aproaches used to examine such forms of attention as attention to regions of space, attention to objects and attention for action summarise the different cognitive psychological approaches under a fairly abstract definition of the term understand how ideas about attention have changed and diversified over the last fifty years and how well they have stood up...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
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

...psychology academics at The Open 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...
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The meaning of home in later life
Health, Sports & Psychology

The meaning of home in later life

...psychological and the structural environments. It is a concept that is more complex and says something about personal meaning and identity, about family and friends, our life history. It varies depending on our age, gender, culture and generation. Given this complexity there is a vast multi-disciplinary literature on the concept of home from many disciplines. This...
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The athlete’s journey: transitions through sport Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

The athlete’s journey: transitions through sport

...psychological challenges of some of these transitions and the impact they can have on the athlete. This course will offer you practical guidance, whether you support athletes as a coach or parent or whether you are an athlete yourself, and draws on a wealth of case study and audio-visual material to bring the athlete’s journey to life. The course is introduced by former...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Methods of studying children: the background
Education & Development

Methods of studying children: the background

...a longitudinal study, and the way it is reported also involves case studies of individual children and their families. Discover methods of studying children The collection of articles, videos, photos and audio exploring child development has been made possible by a partnership between the British Psychological Society and The Open University Child and Youth Studies Group....
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