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Quiz: Can you identify food under an electron microscope?
Science, Maths & Technology

Quiz: Can you identify food under an electron microscope?

...Health and Wellbeing courses and qualifications. Start the quiz now. [Screenshot of the launch image from the interactive.] Instructions For best results, use a modern web browser. Upgrade to the latest version of Internet Explorer or try a free alternative like Google Chrome, Firefox or Safari. If you are having problems viewing the quiz, changing browsers may help....
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The OU Welcomes Carers
Health, Sports & Psychology

The OU Welcomes Carers

...Health and Wellbeing courses. The long-term shift towards an ageing population, lower use of institutional care, improved longevity of those with lifelong disabilities and reduced expenditure on public services means the number of family carers is rising and predicted to continue to rise. As a result, caring will touch most of our lives; more than three in five of us will...
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Learn to live well with self-care on OpenLearn
Health, Sports & Psychology

Learn to live well with self-care on OpenLearn

...wellbeing. This might include a better diet, more sleep, a new hobby, time with family and friends, finding ways to relax and more physical exercise. We've got some great ideas to help you get started! ...Explore these articles and courses to help give you inspiration. Change doesn't have to be overwhelming. Just add one change in your life and build from there, even...
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Volunteering with a personal or professional focus
Education & Development

Volunteering with a personal or professional focus

...Mental Health Committee volunteer, The Mental Health Foundation [Catherine] “If you feel like your life isn’t fully fulfilled, then look for volunteering opportunities. Because, actually, what pays the rent may not fulfil you completely; there are other ways of doing that.” Although Catherine had worked in the mental health sector previously, it was......
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Shifting notions of trauma-informed practice: from the individual to the organisation
Society, Politics & Law

Shifting notions of trauma-informed practice: from the individual to the organisation

...mental health support services is essential. Officers/staff also need to be enabled to deliver in their roles through effective learning/CPD, etc., otherwise the trauma can be reinforced and compounded. Implementing TI practice in organisations Implementing TI practice requires a huge commitment from leadership and a fair and participatory approach. What can organisations...
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Intuitive eating: a new relationship with food, or another fad diet?
OpenLearn Ireland

Intuitive eating: a new relationship with food, or another fad diet?

...health. The diet culture pretends to be about promoting health and wellbeing but instead actually causes harm. Striving to be healthy is a concept that is generally accepted, however, when you try to be stick to a strict diet, you ultimately fail and are left back at square one. This impacts negatively on how you feel about yourself and can lead to any subsequent diet...
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Can we get to a world without suicide?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can we get to a world without suicide?

...mental health, recorded suicides in the UK have declined only slightly over the past few decades, from 14.7 per 100,000 people 36 years ago to 10.9 in 2015. A simple belief drives Mallen: that Edward should still be alive, that his death was preventable – at several stages during the rapid onset of his depression. Moreover, Mallen and a growing number of mental health...
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Why the Applying Psychology to Work hub was created
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why the Applying Psychology to Work hub was created

...mental health, wellbeing or communications problems impacted by COVID-19. A review of material already available on OpenLearn highlighted plenty of resources that could help address the considerable workplace changes, plus mental and emotional consequences, from the cataclysmic experience of a sequence of pandemic lockdowns. [Woman working at laptop in a mask] What can...
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