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My abortion experience: Renee's story
Health, Sports & Psychology

My abortion experience: Renee's story

...care of women requesting induced abortion. Evidence-based clinical guideline number 7 from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Decision-making support within the integrated care pathway for women considering or seeking abortion – guidance for commissioners executive summary or full guidance Family Planning Association – for information about sexual...
How can I support bereaved neurodivergent children?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can I support bereaved neurodivergent children?

...Care courses and qualifications. Not everyone experiences grief in the same way. Whilst under-researched, there is evidence that neurodivergent people may experience grief, as well as the social practices around death and bereavement, differently from others. This is thought to be related to their neurodivergence – in the differences in how their brains process...
Can the NHS solve its bullying problem?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can the NHS solve its bullying problem?

...care, where bullying exists we generally don’t challenge it. Common survival strategies include withdrawing from colleagues or striking up alliances with people who offer us protection. This can include establishing gang-like ways of working, such as blaming and excluding people with different views or ways of working. Gangs, unlike functioning teams, offer a mafia-like...
A matter of life and death: inequalities in healthcare for Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities
Health, Sports & Psychology

A matter of life and death: inequalities in healthcare for Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities

...care in a range of health services from mental health, diabetes, hypertension and inherited haemoglobinopathies (sickle cell anaemia and thalassaemia). Common themes emerged from the various reports: Black people are not listened to Black people are not believed Black people are not respected. This results in racial inequalities that are observed and in the higher death...
Understanding Alice
History & The Arts

Understanding Alice

...adults of either sex. It is not necessarily the case that such men were sexually interested in their child friends; arguably they liked their company because girlhood was entirely free from the demands associated with being a man in a patriarchal culture. From this perspective, the puzzles, nonsense and fantasy that make up Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland books can be...
Oliver Sacks: "Don't skip the footnotes"
Health, Sports & Psychology

Oliver Sacks: "Don't skip the footnotes"

...adult life is marked by two distinct periods. The first, as a young man, is characterised by its vigour: motorcycling across America, weightlifting, experimenting with drugs, and youthful lust and love. His later life, however, is consumed by a sense of vocation. Most of Sacks’ working life comprises a 35-year period of celibacy wherein he adopted an almost monastic...
Strategies to reduce the prison population
Society, Politics & Law

Strategies to reduce the prison population

...care for people in institutions of violence. Transformations must be voluntary rather than coerced. Prisons break rather than facilitate family ties and it is impossible to teach people how to live in freedom while in captivity. [View of HM Prison Dartmoor, a Category C men's prison located in Princetown, high on Dartmoor.] Princetown : HM Prison Dartmoor. Prisons are...
Where do we get the help that really counts?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Where do we get the help that really counts?

...care workers from community-based organisations. Informal sources of support are used by a wide range of people in distress whether or not they are recognised as having a mental health problem. It has long been known that there are many more people experiencing mental distress than those who seek or get medical help. An important study by Goldberg and Huxley (1992) found...