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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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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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Article 5 mins
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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Article 15 mins
Caring for adults
Health, Sports & Psychology

Caring for adults

...Mental health awareness, or to one of the other sections. If you feel that you’ve now got what you need from the course and don’t wish to attempt the quiz, please visit the Taking my learning further section. There you can reflect on what you have learned and find suggestions of further learning opportunities. We would love to know what you thought of the course and...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
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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Article 10 mins
The Orlando killings were "a queerphobic attack"
Society, Politics & Law

The Orlando killings were "a queerphobic attack"

...mental health issues, either...In the immediate aftermath of the worst mass-shooting in US history, debates in the media are already focusing on what to call the tragic event. Was it a queerphobic attack, yet another instance of Islamist terrorism targeting “the West” – or simply the case of a man who, in the words of his ex-wife, was “mentally unstable”?...
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World Heart Day 2016
Miscellaneous

World Heart Day 2016

...Health and Wellbeing qualifications. World Heart Day was created in 2000 to inform people around the globe that heart disease and stroke are the world’s leading cause of death, claiming 17.3 million lives each year and the numbers are rising. By 2030, it is expected that 23 million people will die from Cardiovascular diseases annually–more than the population of...
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Schizophrenia: Beyond science
Health, Sports & Psychology

Schizophrenia: Beyond science

...mental health services and legislation in society as a whole. To some extent this may be down to the unusual and sometimes dramatic thoughts, experiences and behaviour associated with the condition. It may also be the result of the often over-played (in the media) fear that schizophrenia is associated with the risk of violence. Psychiatry has tended to view the contents...
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