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...mental health. In the course, you will learn about the concept of resilience and understand how resilience can be developed in athletes and coaches...This free course, Developing resilience in sport, explores how the concept of resilience can support athletes on their athletic development journey. Resilience can act as a buffer to protect against the challenges that might...

...mental images forming concepts (putting information into categories) developing schemas (constructing mental packages of related information). We will now look at these three types of organisation in more detail...Starting with psychology: 3.2 Using mental images - As adults, we tend to do most of our thinking in words. However numerous experiments have been carried out...

...mental wellbeing. More broadly, as researched by the What Works Centre for Wellbeing, wellbeing is about ‘how we are doing’ as individuals and communities. If considering wellbeing prompts a consideration of how someone is doing, this matters even if they have a terminal diagnosis or are dying. That is because the end of life is often a period of time which can extend...

...mental health services. Currently, a common approach is for patients to undergo some form of aversion therapy, in which they confront their fear by being exposed to it in the hope they will learn that the thing they fear isn’t harmful after all. However, this therapy is inherently unpleasant, and many choose not to pursue it. Now a team of neuroscientists from the...

...mental health difficulties and amplify sensory sensitivities. The need to keep track of when to have sanitary products ready, or knowing (and remembering) when those need changing, can be very difficult for autistic people, who are more likely to experience differences with what we call executive functioning (meaning skills like remembering, planning, prioritising and...