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Supporting new mothers’ mental health during the perinatal period
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting new mothers’ mental health during the perinatal period

...family I desperately wanted to be part of, but I couldn’t. The thoughts and voices kept me trapped and isolated.' For some parents, thoughts can feel overwhelming, frightening, or out of control. Others may hear voices, experience intrusive images, or feel watched or followed. These experiences are deeply distressing, and parents who experience them describe powerful...
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Promoting the effective management of children’s pain
Health, Sports & Psychology

Promoting the effective management of children’s pain

...family. Part of effective pain management includes parents, who want to, becoming involved in their child’s pain management, which needs to be encouraged so that parents feel empowered to become involved in reducing the pain experienced by their child in hospital. The information presented will enable you to gain knowledge and insight into evidence-based practice, in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations
History & The Arts

Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations

...history of Britain, including its colonial history. It has been held that the mainstream realist novel did much to ‘normalise’ imperialist attitudes. I do not think things are quite so straightforward: apart from anything else, this presumes a very limited idea of the genre. Nevertheless, it takes us beyond the familiar, towards a reading that raises yet more...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Multidisciplinary study: the value and benefits Badge icon
Education & Development

Multidisciplinary study: the value and benefits

...history is. If you've got the enthusiasm, do it. End of the day, if you've got it, you can do it. Studying a multidisciplinary qualification at The Ope University. The Open University would really appreciate a few minutes of your time to tell us about yourself and your expectations for the course before you begin, in our optional start-of-course survey. Participation will...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Understanding Alice
History & The Arts

Understanding Alice

...family name for Edith, while Lacie is an anagram of Alice. The Treacle Well refers to holy well associated with St. Frideswide, the patron saint of Oxford (‘treacle’ is an ancient term for a healing compound). Alice’s father, the Dean of Christ Church College where Charles Dodgson lived and taught mathematics, had recently commissioned a window in the saint’s...
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Article 10 mins
Who are Europeans?
Society, Politics & Law

Who are Europeans?

...history is made in an ever-expanding world, but that this world will only be truly human when men can live freely in free cities, on this day, we take the solemn oath: to maintain permanent ties between our municipalities, to encour age exchanges in all domains between their inhabitants so as to develop through a better mutual understanding, the notion of European...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Selling Empire: Posters
History & The Arts

Selling Empire: Posters

...history. Empire Marketing Board Posters as art In order to try and capture the widest possible audience for such themes, the EMB’s poster subcommittee tried to employ the best poster artists, in what was arguably a golden age of artist-produced British posters. Hence MacDonald Gill was employed on the strength of his previous Wonderground Map of London Town and other...
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A changing uniqueness – The changing ‘place’ of the West
OpenLearn Ireland

A changing uniqueness – The changing ‘place’ of the West

...family farm. Decline and the population appeared synonymous, and it was in the West that the losses were greatest as can be seen in the map, population decline in the West between 1891 and 1961 was commonly over 40%. Activity: Changing populations [The population in North West Ireland decreases heavily between 1891 to 1961, while urban areas such as Dublin increase...
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