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What You Need to Know About Psychometrics
Health, Sports & Psychology

What You Need to Know About Psychometrics

...mental ability. Psychometric tests have been used by employers for over 100 years, and recent surveys suggest 75% of The Times Top 100 companies, plus around 70% of UK companies with over 50 employees, utilise these as part of their recruitment process. Organisations can evaluate how a candidate might behave in a job role; for example, capacity to work with others, deal...
53 things you never knew about OpenLearn
Education & Development

53 things you never knew about OpenLearn

...mental health (see below). Transcripts SYNDICATION AND OTHER SITES We have our sister site OpenLearn Create, which is more international with 48% of users from India and another large chunk from Tanzania and Nigeria. Our YouTube channel has a whopping 291,000 subscribers – the most on any UK university YouTube account. We have a Facebook and Twitter account with over...
Oes gen i broblemau iechyd meddwl ac a ddylwn i gael help?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Oes gen i broblemau iechyd meddwl ac a ddylwn i gael help?

...mental health counselling cartoon ] 5: Diffyg gobaith Mae gobaith yn hanfodol bwysig i bob un ohonom, ond pan mae rhywun yn brwydro â phroblemau iechyd meddwl, mae gobaith yn gallu bod dan fygythiad. Weithiau ni fydd pobl yn gofyn am help, hyd yn oed os ydyn nhw’n sylweddoli bod ganddyn nhw broblemau sylweddol, yn rhannol oherwydd eu bod yn teimlo mor negyddol am eu...
Mothering at the Margins: Amplifying and validating the voices of Black mothers of autistic children
Education & Development

Mothering at the Margins: Amplifying and validating the voices of Black mothers of autistic children

...mentally’ (Malcolm and Green, 2025, p. 188). The Multiplicity of Burdens Our research identified this increased mental load as being one of several ‘burdens’ borne by Black mothers of autistic children. As detailed in the book, the word ‘burden’ is used advisedly to speak to the consequences of marginalisation and oppression, and the debilitating effects in...
‘Where do you really come from?’ How this enquiry can add insult to injury
Education & Development

‘Where do you really come from?’ How this enquiry can add insult to injury

...mental health and wellbeing. Emotions stem from key structures in the limbic system of the brain and stimulate chemical reactions in our body. They are essentially unconscious processes designed to promote survival in instances where circumstances are too critical to leave responses to conscious decision making. Examples of primary emotions are fear, anger, joy, disgust...
Applying social work law to asylum and immigration
Society, Politics & Law

Applying social work law to asylum and immigration

...mental wellbeing. You see people and you see young people who spend most of their lives here with no hope. If we’re talking about children within families, then there is emotional thing that they actually see their parents go through because the asylum process is not an easy process but, because of the limited resources that people have as well, they can’t actually...
Can talking two languages keep your brain healthy?
Languages

Can talking two languages keep your brain healthy?

...mental effort to ignore the impulse just to say the word we can’t help but read. The snowflake test prepared my ACC for the second flanker task, just as speaking more than one language seems to train the executive system more generally. A steady stream of studies over the past decade has shown that bilinguals outperform monolinguals in a range of cognitive and social...
The suicide of The Ceasefire Babies
Health, Sports & Psychology

The suicide of The Ceasefire Babies

...mental health hospital. Now he was dead. I lived in the street for three more years. When I left, Jonny’s house had been boarded up, the windows barricaded with sheets of rusted metal. The only window left untouched was the one at the top, the one through which the neighbours used to hear him sing. *** When someone dies by suicide, they leave behind questions. Attend a...