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FGM: Mental Health impact and CBT
Health, Sports & Psychology

FGM: Mental Health impact and CBT

...care. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) can help Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is a structured talking therapy. The World Health Organization (2025) recommends CBT as part of a holistic, trauma‑informed plan to support FGM survivors with trauma, post‑traumatic stress disorder, depression and anxiety. CBT helps survivors understand how their thoughts, emotions...
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Can talking two languages keep your brain healthy?
Languages

Can talking two languages keep your brain healthy?

...care at all about the task and just want to get it over as soon as possible. Students and teaching staff who try to work it out and find a pattern always do worst,” he says. “It’s impossible in the time given to decipher the rules of the language and make sense of what’s being said to you. But your brain is primed to work it out subconsciously. That’s why, if...
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Teaching citizenship: work and the economy
Education & Development

Teaching citizenship: work and the economy

...adult lives working in some context or another, and our engagement with economic activity more generally is obvious (and not just as consumers). Many young people are also intimately tied up with work. School children often have part-time evening, weekend or holiday jobs of their own. They are all likely to spend some time on work-experience programmes. Their parents will...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
The impact of technology on children's physical activity
Health, Sports & Psychology

The impact of technology on children's physical activity

...adults more active. With the development of health and fitness-related apps, there is the potential that screen time will not necessarily always be sedentary. Box 1 What is Pokémon GO? [Described image] Figure 5 Pokémon GO Pokémon GO is built on Niantic’s Real World Gaming Platform. It uses real locations to encourage players to search far and wide in the real world...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
The Good Friday Agreement - 20 Year Anniversary
OpenLearn Ireland

The Good Friday Agreement - 20 Year Anniversary

...adult life. After joining the IRA he was imprisoned on a number of occasions, escaping twice. On his release in 1989 he joined Sinn Féin and became part of their negotiating team leading up to the Good Friday Agreement. Elected for the first time in 1996 he became an MLA in 1998. He has been in MLA since and between 2007 and 2011 was a Junior Minister. He is now Sinn...
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10 flabbergasting facts you'll find on OpenLearn
Miscellaneous

10 flabbergasting facts you'll find on OpenLearn

...adult life whilst the real perpetrator walked free. Jerry Miller’s case was the 200th case the US Innocence Project successfully appealed using DNA evidence. Eye witness identifications played a role in 77% of these wrongful convictions." To find out more read the full article Misidentification: Can you identify the criminal? 2: You'll get called a 'blue flower' in...
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Public health approaches to infectious disease
Science, Maths & Technology

Public health approaches to infectious disease

...adults (mainly pregnant women attending for antenatal care) and there is a delivery couch in a side room. However, around 90% of rural women choose to give birth in their own homes with a Health Extension Worker present or a traditional birth attendant. Postnatal sepsis and haemorrhage are the main reasons for the high mortality rate: remember it was 4.4 maternal deaths...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Children’s wellbeing and creativity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Children’s wellbeing and creativity

...caring responsibilities for children and young people, as well as looking at formal definitions. Activity 1 What is Wellbeing? Timing: Allow 30 minutes for this activity Spend some time thinking about what the term ‘wellbeing’ means to you. Don’t overthink this – just go with your initial thoughts and write down five words which define wellbeing. Feedback There...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs