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Understanding ADHD
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding ADHD

...mental health...Understanding ADHD: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: define key terms in the field of ADHD describe the characteristics of ADHD and how they are used in diagnosis describe the patterns of prevalence of ADHD, including the reasons for disparities worldwide describe risk factors and brain changes associated with ADHD...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Attachment in the early years
Education & Development

Attachment in the early years

...mental illnesses to help them learn more about what’s going on inside their child’s head, in order to facilitate better quality interactions and hopefully help the mothers recover more quickly too. John Oates So what would you say have been the most important recent advances in this field? Elizabeth Meins In our work on maternal mind-mindedness, so this is mothers'...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Supporting older people with learning disabilities and their families
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting older people with learning disabilities and their families

...mental health decline. So I went to visit. This gentleman was very, very distressed. And I’d never seen him like this before at all, and I’d worked with him for quite a number of years. But I didn’t want to lean towards the mental health side of things. And what became apparent through discussion and looking through the records of the residential home was that,...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis

...mental health and wellbeing. Taking a critical eco-psycho-social perspective you will explore ideas from social theory, psychoanalysis, ecopsychology, eco-feminism and post-humanism to gain a deeper understanding of the climate and ecological crisis, its impact on our wellbeing and how to build psychological resilience...This free course introduces the emerging field of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
How to be a critical reader
Languages

How to be a critical reader

...mental states comprise mental acts and mental contents. Answer Brentano believed that mental states comprise mental acts and mental contents. Select the answer for Question 1e here Fact Opinion a. Fact b. Opinion The correct answer is b. Question 6 However, research by Mumford and Power (2003) has revealed a strong sense of community spirit and ......
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Developing your skills as an HR professional
Money & Business

Developing your skills as an HR professional

...mental health at work [Online]. Available at http://www.cipd.co.uk/ hr-resources/ factsheets/ stress-mental-health-at-work.aspx (Accessed 20 November 2013). Foresight (2008) Mental Capital and Wellbeing: Making the most of ourselves in the 21st Century, Government Office for Science [Online]. Available at https://www.gov.uk/ government/ publications/...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Understanding autism Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding autism

...mental condition that affects how a person thinks, communicates with and relates to other people, and interacts with the world around them. Autism is much more common than was previously thought. About one per cent (or one in a hundred) of people in the UK are thought to be on the autism spectrum. You may know someone with autism, or be on the autism spectrum yourself....
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
The jury: Why we need to learn more about their collective decision-making processes.
Society, Politics & Law

The jury: Why we need to learn more about their collective decision-making processes.

...Mental Health Act 1983 (The Juries Act, 1974). Additionally, a jury is not used in every criminal case but they are used in the most serious of cases when a defendant enters a plea of not guilty, e.g. murder (Gordon, 2015). The idea behind using juries is that an accused person is tried by a representative sample of their peers and therefore they receive a fair trial...
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