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Supporting children and young people's wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting children and young people's wellbeing

...psychological, and social factors that affect children and young people. Understanding wellbeing cannot therefore be seen in isolation from social contexts. This might include the nature of children and young people’s relationships in families and care contexts. It might also reflect where children and young people live as well as economic and domestic circumstances....
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Understanding operations management
Money & Business

Understanding operations management

...psychological state of customers. Often all three types of input – materials, information and customers – are transformed by the same organisation. For example, withdrawing money from a bank account involves information about the customer's account, materials such as cheques and currency, and the customer. Treating a patient in hospital involves not only the...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Personal branding for career success Badge icon
Money & Business

Personal branding for career success

...psychology progress: empirical validation of interventions’, American Psychologist vol. 6, no. 5, p. 410. Šverko, B., Babarović, T. and Šverko, I. (2008) ‘Chapter 27, Assessment of values and role salience’, International Handbook of Career Guidance. Dordrecht, Germany: Springer Science & Business Media...Week 4: Developing my personal brand: Further reading -...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Talking about the menopause: symptoms, support and the role of exercise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Talking about the menopause: symptoms, support and the role of exercise

...psychological symptoms. (Kaye, 2020; Hillard et al., 2017). Some of the most common symptoms are shown in the following figure. [Described image] Menopause can impact on just about every area of a person’s life – work and career, close personal and family relationships, friendships, and social lives, as well as on their inner lives, with confidence, self-esteem,...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Making social media work in Higher Education
Education & Development

Making social media work in Higher Education

...Psychology. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.931835 Mallon, S. and Dresden, B., (2023). ‘There is space for the official and the unofficial’: A case study of a module-led Facebook page in online distance education, Advances in Online Education. Miller R., and Melton, J. (2015) ‘College students and risk-taking behaviour on Twitter versus Facebook’, Behaviour & Information...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Understanding your sector Badge icon
Money & Business

Understanding your sector

...forensic science, fire and rescue, police and law enforcement. You can find a full list of all bodies on the Federation for Industry Sector Skills and Standards website. Although these bodies are primarily set up to meet the needs of employers, many also see their role as being to publicise careers to the general public, educating them about the benefits of training and...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Imagination: The missing mystery of philosophy
History & The Arts

Imagination: The missing mystery of philosophy

...psychology and cognitive science, and according pride of place to what they call ‘recreative imagination’. Engell (1981) approaches the subject from literary criticism rather than philosophy, but offers a rich account of the development of ideas on the creative imagination. Other books that might also be mentioned here are Kearney (1988), which takes a historical...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Who counts as a refugee?
Society, Politics & Law

Who counts as a refugee?

...psychological support to asylum seekers and refugees. They have been in the forefront of campaigns first to challenge the regulations and legislation, and their administration, and second to ‘nail the myths’ about refugees and asylum seekers presented in much of the media...Who counts as a refugee?: 4.2 Feminist perspectives: who counts as a refugee? - The UN...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs