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Why do female footballers experience knee injuries and what can be done? Copyrighted Icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why do female footballers experience knee injuries and what can be done?

...et al., 2020). An injury to the Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) in the knee has received special attention from researchers and the media due to its potential severity and because females are at a higher risk of sustaining the injury (Marmura, Bryant and Getgood, 2021). A study by Montalvo et al. (2019) found that female football players had more than double the...
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Health, Sports & Psychology

Learning from sport burnout and overtraining

...emotional exhaustion and burnout in sport (Larner et al., 2017). It is also a point of difference between coach and athlete burnout since coaches are always interacting with and managing their emotions: it is a job in which people skills are the focus of their work. The following activity explores the two emotional labour strategies you might use in your work with other...
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Attachment in the early years

...Emotional communication and attachment Goldberg et al. (1994) analysed 30 video recordings of the SST, gathered in a longitudinal study of Canadian children. The recordings were selected to ensure that ten secure, ten insecure-avoidant and ten insecure-ambivalent relationships were included. The three groups were matched for infant gender, age at testing, and parent age,...
Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
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The meaning of home in later life

...emotional geography, social policy, psychology, architectural studies and design. For all ages home builds and supports personal identity. It is a place of belonging, social relationships and family, privacy, comfort, valued objects and possessions, connection and rootedness (Peace, 2015). The nature of home in relation to work and care continues to change as families,...
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Reading for pleasure: exploring the concept

...et al., 2012; Troyer et al., 2019). The latter refers to reading for recognition, for reward or to please teachers/parents. Research also indicates that the relationship between intrinsic motivation and reading skills develops at the early age of 6 years (McGeown et al., 2015) and that children can be both intrinsically and extrinsically motivated at the same time...
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Advanced French: At the science museum in Paris

...et de l’industrie, parfois aussi appelée la Cité de la Villette. Il ne s’agit pas d’un grand musée traditionnel, mais d’une véritable « cité ». C’est un lieu vivant, où l’on peut se déplacer d’exposition en exposition à l’intérieur d’un vaste complexe. Comme dans une cité réelle, toutes les générations s’y côtoient, de l’enfant de...
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Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis

...emotional resilience and can be a protective factor against low wellbeing (Ojala et al., 2021). It is important that we do not confuse ‘taking action’ with ‘activism’ though. Taking action need not necessarily mean joining activist movements such as Extinction Rebellion or becoming involved in large-scale protests. It has been shown that engaging in individual...
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Understanding ADHD

...et al., 2018). Estimates of the worldwide prevalence of ADHD are around 6 in 100 children and adolescents and 3 in 100 adults (Spencer et al., 2002; Moffitt et al., 2015). What do you notice about prevalence rates in the two age groups? Around twice as many children and adolescents have ADHD compared with adults. This difference in prevalence was initially thought to...
Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs