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Making sense of mental health problems
Health, Sports & Psychology

Making sense of mental health problems

...challenge? In the next section you will look again at what could be argued is the dominant mode of assessing mental health problems – psychiatric diagnosis. You will also consider some alternatives to diagnosis...Making sense of mental health problems: 5 Diagnosis and its alternatives - In this section you return to the case study of Mandy and explore an alternative approach to supporting people who hear voices. Finally you ......
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Learning to teach: an introduction to classroom research
Education & Development

Learning to teach: an introduction to classroom research

...de-motivating, or it might be something more general like how to organise group work effectively. Define the purpose and clarify what form the intervention might take. This will involve consulting the literature and finding out what is already known about this issue. Plan an intervention designed to tackle the issue. Collect empirical data and analyse it Plan another...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
Introducing the Classical world
History & The Arts

Introducing the Classical world

...de Sélincourt) So even in the fifth century BCE, history was as much about belief as about truth. You will read several ancient historians during your study of the Classical world. To explore the question of what they thought it meant to write history is immensely rewarding. The downside is that historiography is no more straightforward a source than any other. As you...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Partnerships and networks in work with young people
Health, Sports & Psychology

Partnerships and networks in work with young people

...DES, 1982, p. 122) What is different now is the emphasis that recent governments have placed on the development of partnership working, particularly in relation to the delivery of public services. Policy during the years of the Labour Government of 1997–2010 had a strong focus on joint working between agencies and on partnership across a wide range of public policy,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Could we control our climate? Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Could we control our climate?

...de Janeiro, Brazil, where heavy rain caused fatal mudslides and flooding in January 2010. (b) A sign in Rawnsley Park Station, South Australia, rendered unnecessary by the 2007–08 drought . Extreme weather events also have indirect impacts. These might be, for example, reduced agricultural yields and social instability such as violent crime and mass migration (Edwards...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Supporting adult learners’ positive mental health Badge icon
Education & Development

Supporting adult learners’ positive mental health

...de Beurs, E. (2020) ‘Workplace stress, presenteeism, absenteeism and resilience among university staff and students in the COVID-19 lockdown’. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 11. Available at: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33329135/ (Accessed: 5 January 2025). Von der Embse, N., Jester, D., Roy, D. and Post, J. (2018) ‘Test anxiety effects, predictors, and correlates: A...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Machines, minds and computers
Digital & Computing

Machines, minds and computers

...de Cervantes's hero Don Quixote and his squire Sancho Panza encounter one: The last questioner was Sancho, and his questions were, 'Head, shall I by any chance have another government? Shall I ever escape from the hard life of a squire? Shall I get back to see my wife and children?' To which the answer came, Thou shalt govern in thy house; and if thou returnest to it thou...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Discovering Ancient Greek and Latin
History & The Arts

Discovering Ancient Greek and Latin

...De re publica) and ‘On Laws’ (De legibus), inspired by Plato’s similarly named Republic and Laws, along with a great deal of new technical vocabulary for expressing philosophical ideas which until that point could only be expressed satisfactorily in Greek. Much of this work took place in a short burst of productivity during the years 45 and 44 BCE. We can only...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs