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What can I do about my mental health when I don’t have the support I need?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What can I do about my mental health when I don’t have the support I need?

...psychological support under the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme. 4: Search for user-run self-help groups [voluntary group] There may be mental health service user run self-help groups in your area, ranging from dealing with issues of depression and anxiety through to ways of managing the hearing of voices. Most of these will have a presence on the...
Young carers, COVID-19 and physical activity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Young carers, COVID-19 and physical activity

...psychological and social advantages are significant at a key time period for establishing a sense of personal identity. In addition, the young carer might walk or cycle to school providing not only transport but fresh air, physical activity and time to spend with friends, or enjoying some quiet time. Break times and lunch times might involve meeting friends and having a...
Signposts for Work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Signposts for Work

...Psychology to Work Hub, providing tools, resources and short courses to help develop skills and knowledge towards preparing for new work or enhancing a current career journey...The workplace and our society face many current challenging situations. You may have experienced considerable changes to your own working life, whether as an employer or employee, self-employed or...
Identifying Values – Finding the Things that Matter the Most to You for the Way You Live and Work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Identifying Values – Finding the Things that Matter the Most to You for the Way You Live and Work

...Psychology at Work Hub including: What's in your toolbox? Five Reasons Why You Should Care About Mindfulness References Aronson, E. (2019) ‘Dissonance, hypocrisy, and the self-concept', in Harmon-Jones, E. (ed.) Cognitive Dissonance, Second Edition: Re-examining a Pivotal Theory in Psychology. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, pp. 141–57. Festinger,...
Exploring the relationship between anxiety and depression
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring the relationship between anxiety and depression

...psychological and social factors. We noted that 'this approach examines the three interdependent factors, biological, psychological and social, in devising explanations and possible interventions in mental health', and that 'the biopsychosocial model is … an arguably more "integrative, non-reductionist clinical and theoretical" model that "honors the importance of all...
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...
What is polonium - and why is it so dangerous?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is polonium - and why is it so dangerous?

...forensic report of the exhumed remains of ex-Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat today suggests polonium poisoning may have been the cause of death – but what is polonium, and why is it so deadly? First, we need to understand the basics of radioactivity. Radioactivity is the (term given to the) emission of certain particles or electromagnetic waves caused by the breakdown...