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Identifying Values – Finding the Things that Matter the Most to You for the Way You Live and Work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Identifying Values – Finding the Things that Matter the Most to You for the Way You Live and Work

...mental health and wellbeing Flexibility adjust and adapt readily to changing circumstances Freedom live freely; choose how I live and behave, or help others do likewise Friendliness be friendly, companionable, or agreeable towards others Forgiveness be forgiving towards myself or others Fun be fun-loving; seek, create, and engage in fun-filled activities Generosity be...
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Understanding dyslexia Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding dyslexia

...mental condition that limits a person’s ability to undertake normal daily activities. Before the 1960s, society’s understanding of disability was largely shaped by the medical model. The model, rather than defining disability, influences society’s psychological, political, and economic responses to it. In this model, disability is seen as a problem that belongs to...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Freeing people caught between life and death
Health, Sports & Psychology

Freeing people caught between life and death

...mental simulation of movements. But imagining walking around the house activates the parahippocampal gyrus in the core of the brain, the posterior parietal lobe, and the lateral premotor cortex. The two patterns of activity were as distinct as a ‘yes’ and a ‘no’. So, if people were asked to imagine tennis for ‘yes’ and walking around the house for ‘no’,...
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Children’s experiences with digital technologies
Education & Development

Children’s experiences with digital technologies

...mental health in the digital age: A small association between social media use and depression has been found (McCrae, Gettings and Purssell, 2017), with a similar link found between anxiety symptoms and high daily social media use (Vannucci, Flannery and Ohannessian, 2017). (OECD, 2018, p. 7) Such statements are often interpreted as ‘high daily usage of social media is...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Making sense of ourselves
Health, Sports & Psychology

Making sense of ourselves

...mental states are simply thoughts of the form ‘he thinks that …’, whereas second-order mental states take the form ‘he thinks that she thinks’. For children to give the correct responses in this task, they need some basic competence in this latter kind of mental reasoning. Underpinning this ability to make accurate judgements about others is a whole raft of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’
History & The Arts

Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’

...infantile phantasies abandon the opportunity of penetrating the most fascinating secrets of human nature. (Freud, 1963, p. 177–8) He then goes on to ‘summarise what we have been able to discover about the course of his [Leonardo's] psychic development’ which reveals Freud's objectives in writing the book. We should be most glad to give an account of the way in which...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Sut mae rheoli straen ddigidol technoleg
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sut mae rheoli straen ddigidol technoleg

...mental health, 3(4), e50 Seo, H.S., Jeong, E., Sungwon, C., Kwon, Y., Park, H. & Kim, Inseong (2017) Neurotransmitters in Young People with Internet and Smartphone Addiction: A Comparison with Normal Controls and Changes after Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. RSNA conference presentation in Neuroradiology (Cognitive and Psychiatric Disorders):
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Challenging gender discrimination in academia: a call for inclusive change
Education & Development

Challenging gender discrimination in academia: a call for inclusive change

...Mental Health Nursing, 15(2), pp. 84–92. Heilman, M. E. and Caleo, S. (2018) ‘Gender discrimination in the workplace’. In The Oxford handbook of workplace discrimination, pp. 73–88. Johnson, L. (2018) ‘Stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination’. Open University OpenLearn. Available at: https://www.open.edu/openlearn/mod/oucontent/view.php?id=68113§ion=3...
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