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Developing career resilience Badge icon
Money & Business

Developing career resilience

...perception of herself as hopeless with mathematics. Heather’s stress involves several factors, including her expectations and self-beliefs. Heather had the expectation that, as a mother, she should be able to help as she did with other subjects, and yet saw herself as a failure in mathematics. Although Heather shows empathy with her daughter’s mathematical struggles,...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis

...perceptions that people in power are not doing enough and are not trustworthy on the issue of climate and ecological threats. It is referenced above, on the page of the CPA handbook defining eco-anxiety. The same team, Elizabeth Marks, Caroline Hickman, Panu Pikhala and Elouise Mayall, then gave evidence to the UK government, drawing on their research and professional...
Hybrid working: change management
Money & Business

Hybrid working: change management

...perception and resistance to the change – people need to understand how the change will impact them, i.e. What does it mean for me? No involvement might mean a loss of support – individuals need to feel that they are part of the change effort rather than feeling like it is being done to them. No recovery can result in regression – if the change is not embedded to...
Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Supporting female performance in sport and fitness Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting female performance in sport and fitness

...perception that it is unfeminine or uncool for adolescent females to play sport (Forsyth and Roberts, 2019). [The image shows a girl swimming underwater with a logo in the centre of image saying ‘This Girl Can’.] Dr Sims partly attributes adolescent female dropout from sport after puberty to the effect that increasing levels of hormones have on their coordination and...
Understanding mental capacity Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding mental capacity

...perceptions of them. It is important therefore to think about the personhood of whoever needs help making a decision. You will learn what personhood is in a minute. A ‘person’ is someone who is worthy of our moral consideration in our dealings with them; this includes every human being. Personhood, however, is a central element for debate in moral philosophy. Activity...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Climate change
Nature & Environment

Climate change

...perception. Activity 1 Timing: 0 hours 20 minutes The theory that we were heading into another 'ice age' was quite topical and scientifically respectable in the 1970s. Indeed, this was one of the concerns on the agenda at the first World Climate Conference, along with the prospect of greenhouse warming. Here are a couple of quotes, which give you a feel for how the issue...
Level 2: Intermediate 18 hrs
Introducing social care and social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing social care and social work

...perception of them by society may also lead to some incorporation of that judgement into their view of themselves...Session 2: Understanding yourself and others: how identities shape and develop: 7 The negative impact of labelling - The way we see ourselves, self-identity and the ways that identity can be ascribed to us by other people, are rarely separate from each...
Collaborative problem solving for community safety
Money & Business

Collaborative problem solving for community safety

...perceptions and world views of the people who are involved in aspects of the situation. The following diagram summarises the key elements of messes or wicked problems: [Described image] Figure 2 Messes or wicked problems Activity 4 Tame or wicked? Timing: Allow about 20 minutes for this activity. Spend a few minutes reflecting on two or three challenging issues that...