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How Emma Raducanu’s parents strike the right balance: supporting your child athlete
Health, Sports & Psychology

How Emma Raducanu’s parents strike the right balance: supporting your child athlete

...mentality since a young age.” Finally, Raducanu’s parents seem to stay in the background at her events and are not recognisable. Parental behaviour around training and competition can determine whether a young athlete has a positive sporting experience. For example, warm and supportive parents have been associated with higher levels of sport competence, self-esteem...
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Article 5 mins
Home education for children with special educational needs
Education & Development

Home education for children with special educational needs

...mentally or physically unwell to attend school, and the same number reported that at least one child had been excluded. A slightly higher proportion considered the move to home education had been entirely involuntary, at least in the early stages, reflecting reports from Ofsted. Concerns such as those raised by ISPEA are that many families are left without support, having...
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Article 5 mins
Child spirituality
Education & Development

Child spirituality

...mental, emotional, and social development, including their spiritual needs, according to their developmental ages and understanding and the relevant cultural expression of those within their faith communities. Spirituality and morality All children have a capacity for forming moral judgements. Carl Rogers believed that children and adults are able to reach their full...
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Article 5 mins
Sub-concussions in women’s football: what can be done to protect the brains of footballers?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sub-concussions in women’s football: what can be done to protect the brains of footballers?

...mental illness. She donated her brain to medical research and while there was no evidence of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) that leads to dementia, there was evidence of degradation of white matter in her brain, despite Jacinta only ever suffering one concussion during her career. It is being increasingly acknowledged that female athletes in contact sports are...
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Article 10 hrs
Managing Relationships and Work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Managing Relationships and Work

...mental wellbeing and enhances our capacity and capability at work and has a significant impact on our ability to survive major challenges both in the workplace and personally. Recent challenges to workplace relationships The COVID-19 pandemic of 2020/21 has had a huge effect on working practices and workplace relationships. While many people have been unable to work at...
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Article 10 mins
Closing the awarding gap: practical actions to support Black and minority ethnic students
Education & Development

Closing the awarding gap: practical actions to support Black and minority ethnic students

...mental health difficulties in indirect language (‘feeling tired’, ‘having a bad day’). Recognise that Black and minority ethnic students typically desire more contact with tutors and may feel anxious about assessments. Offer example assessments and clear explanations of marking decisions to increase transparency and reduce stress. Take extra care to pronounce...
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Article 5 mins
Decolonising the idea of culture in management studies
Money & Business

Decolonising the idea of culture in management studies

...mental construction that expresses the basic experience of colonial domination and pervades the more important dimensions of global power, including its specific rationality: Eurocentrism…. Therefore, the model of power that is globally hegemonic today presupposes an element of coloniality (Quijano, 2000: 536; my emphasis). Coloniality and the management curriculum A...
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Video 40 mins
Coaching neurodivergent athletes
Health, Sports & Psychology

Coaching neurodivergent athletes

...mental health. [Described image] By the end of this week, you should be able to: explain the concept of neurodiversity and define a range of neurodiverse conditions understand what influences communication between individuals with different neurotypes describe the links between neurodiversity, mental health and wellbeing...Week 1: What is neurodiversity?: 1 Defining key...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs