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Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency
Society, Politics & Law

Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency

...psychological approach focuses on examining what makes some individuals, but not others, behave badly. The sociological approach looks at why some individuals and some behaviours, but not others, are defined as disorderly...This free course, Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency, will introduce two approaches to understanding juvenile delinquency. The...
Behind the camera
History & The Arts

Behind the camera

...psychological, the social/cultural and the political/ideological motivations. On a psychological level, much use of film has come about to overcome the basic existential conundrum of life - why are we here, and if life is so transitory, how can we make a mark to let the future know we have passed by? One prominent strand of fine art – the portrait – had developed to...
Valuing death
Health, Sports & Psychology

Valuing death

...A. and Hart, A. (2021) Advance Care Planning (ACP ) - Discuss, Decide, Document and Share Advance Care Planning (ACP ) - Discuss, Decide, Document and Share - OpenLearn - Open University https://www.open.edu/openlearn/health-sports-psychology/mental-health/five-pillars-ageing-well https://www.open.edu/openlearn/health-sports-psychology/health/the-ageing-well-public-talks...
Are you a secret hoarder?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Are you a secret hoarder?

...psychological coherence. Hoarders tend to be both perfectionist and excessively indecisive. Their inflated sense of risk means that the very act of deciding what to keep and what to throw away causes them great anxiety arising from anticipating the grief that will follow their loss. To avoid the potential loss they do nothing, preferring the security of all their...
Reframing Self-Limiting Beliefs
Health, Sports & Psychology

Reframing Self-Limiting Beliefs

...Psychology at Work Hub: Wellbeing for Work Managing Relationships and Work References Conner, T. and Barrett, L. F. (2005) ‘Implicit self-attitudes predict spontaneous affect in daily life’, Emotion, 5(4), pp. 476–88, doi: 10.1037/1528-3542.5.4.476. Olson, M. A. and Fazio, R. H. (2002) ‘Implicit acquisition and manifestation of classically conditioned...
Everyone Can Learn to Coach! Coaching with the OSCAR Model
Health, Sports & Psychology

Everyone Can Learn to Coach! Coaching with the OSCAR Model

...Psychology at Work Hub. References Chidiac, M. (2013) ‘Creating a coaching culture: relational field coaching’, Development and Learning in Organizations, 27 (3), pp. 11–13, doi: 10.1108/14777281311315847. Cox, E. and Bachkirova, T. (2007) ‘Coaching with emotion: How coaches deal with difficult emotional situations’, International Coaching Review, 2(2), pp....
Influence of temperament
Education & Development

Influence of temperament

...Psychological Development and Early Childhood, Oxford, Blackwell.) © Open University 2005...Find out more about The Open University's Early Years courses Here we will consider whether temperamental differences are related to other aspects of children’s development. It must be emphasized that temperament is concerned with individual differences and therefore the impact...
Getting started with SPSS
Society, Politics & Law

Getting started with SPSS

...psychological research. However, many people find the idea of using statistics, and especially statistical software packages, extremely daunting. This free course, Getting started with SPSS, takes a step-by-step approach to statistics software through seven interactive activities. No statistics software is needed...Handling statistical data is an essential part of...
Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs