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Introduction to Green Social Prescribing — Mental Health and the Workplace Environment
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introduction to Green Social Prescribing — Mental Health and the Workplace Environment

...psychological experiments ever conducted in relation to the benefits of nature after surgery found that even just having access to a natural scene from a hospital window enabled patients to have faster recovery. This lead to shorter hospital stays compared to a group of patients who only had views of a brick wall. (View Through a Window May Influence Recovery from...
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Can the NHS solve its bullying problem?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can the NHS solve its bullying problem?

...psychological and social defence against our own feelings of vulnerability, anxiety and aggression. Under this model, bullying is an attempt to project our own vulnerability and fear into other people, something that under the right (or wrong) circumstances we are all capable of doing. [A nurse has a moment of stress] This is not to suggest that everyone is actually a...
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Horror and politics
History & The Arts

Horror and politics

...psychological unrest which haunts their stay at the villa: Henry Fuseli’s painting The Nightmare, with its impish demon squatting on the chest of a sleeping woman, comes to life; as does Percy Bysshe Shelley’s vision of a woman with eyes in place of her nipples. Thus it is that the sexual licence which drove Shelley’s philosophy becomes, in the story world of the...
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How can we design for resilience?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can we design for resilience?

...psychology. You may recognise the term applied to career development, business supply chains, farming, disaster recovery and more. Our focus on resilience here, however, is as an emergent property of social-ecological systems. Carl Folke, co-founder of the Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC), describes resilience as: ... the capacity to persist in the face of change, to...
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The impact of COVID-19 on linguists and their mental health
Languages

The impact of COVID-19 on linguists and their mental health

...psychological impact of the pandemic and its potential repercussions on our mental health. Indeed, a number of risk factors for mental ill-health are said to have escalated during the pandemic, such as social isolation, parenting anxiety, workplace stress, grief and loss, and family violence. For some professionals, such as health workers, the stress they experience at...
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What’s corruption got to do with climate change, and why should we care?
Nature & Environment

What’s corruption got to do with climate change, and why should we care?

...psychology to uncover the causes, impacts and solutions to corruption. Education – Greta Thunberg shows that the future of the planet lies depends in no small part on the leadership provided by the next generation. Providing that generation with an understanding of what corruption is and how it can be tackled is, therefore, more important than ever. The Open...
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The real reason clowns scare us
Health, Sports & Psychology

The real reason clowns scare us

...of the creepiest sightings to be compiled. We may never understand quite how the activity has become as widespread as it has – but at least psychology can help us understand why the idea provokes a chill. Stephanie Lay, Postdoctoral researcher, The Open University This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. More scary articles...
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Why is Netball and other team sports so important for female sports participation?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why is Netball and other team sports so important for female sports participation?

...psychological health outcomes of participation in team sports include: emotional social support; sense of belonging; higher self-esteem; social network; and social interaction. In addition, investigations of the research surrounding continued participation concluded that there was ‘extensive support’ for the role of team sport in encouraging engagement and maintaining...
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