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Can we get to a world without suicide?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can we get to a world without suicide?

...psychology at Florida State University, drew on the testimony of survivors, stacks of research and the loss of his own father to upend minds. He recognised the myriad pressures on a suicidal mind – substance abuse, genetic predisposition to mental illness, poverty – but identified three factors present in all of those most at risk: a genuine belief, however...
Does prison work?
Society, Politics & Law

Does prison work?

...Psychology at Grendon Prison; David Wilson head of operational training for the Prison Service. Activity 1 After listening to the audio programme bear in mind the following questions: How has the programme added to your knowledge of the prison system? What do you now think the purpose of imprisonment should be? Why do you think Grendon ‘works’? Does prison work? part...
Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Introduction to business agility
Money & Business

Introduction to business agility

...psychological safety, this will build a new muscle memory, a continuously learning and improving organisation...Introduction to business agility: 2.1 Outcome hypotheses and OKRs - Activity 1 (below) aims to help you understand how to measure and continually improve Value. The value associated with unique change is best articulated as outcome hypotheses (also known as...
Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Race and Youth Policy: working with young people
Education & Development

Race and Youth Policy: working with young people

...psychology E232: Exploring childhood and youth...Race and Youth Policy: working with young people: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand how issues such as knife crime and terrorism inform ‘policy’ and ‘work with young people’ practice analyse some of the assumptions that underpin youth policy evaluate some of the ways...
Hybrid working: skills for leadership
Money & Business

Hybrid working: skills for leadership

...psychological safety. It needs clear accountability. It needs leaders to be connected and to humanise their workforce. This course will give you an opportunity to reflect on who you are as a hybrid leader and how you want to develop. It will help you understand how to empathise with your workforce and how to adapt your communication skills when working in the office and...
Becoming an ethical researcher Badge icon
Education & Development

Becoming an ethical researcher

...Psychological Society, the British Educational Research Association and the Association of Internet Researchers produce ethical guidelines for researchers to uphold, and why they regularly review guidelines to adapt to changes in society. Now read Case study 1.1, which you will discuss at a later stage. Case study 1.1 Community youth group: proposal to research extremism...
Secondary learning
Education & Development

Secondary learning

...psychological impacts. Narrator What’s so distinctive about the Vygotskian approach? Professor Harry Daniels It’s distinctive in that it’s a story of the social formation of mind. It’s distinctive in that it starts to talk about how the social and the individual are related, about what he calls the ‘means of mediation’, the tools that operate between the...
Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
The secret history of teenage bedrooms
Education & Development

The secret history of teenage bedrooms

...psychology begins to talk about the necessity really of children getting away from adult surveillance and control – almost an argument, almost a democratic argument for a separate space for teenagers. Jason Reid: Yeah and it’s – this actually goes back to the early 19th Century as well. The evangelicals that fully embrace this concept in many respects agreed with...