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Professionals negotiating different ways of knowing
Education & Development

Professionals negotiating different ways of knowing

...health and wellbeing – it’s a long journey. Remember to balance your work, studies and self-care. Take every opportunity to connect with other people – share your ideas, hear ideas from others. Ideas that inform your thesis will not always come from academics or professional colleagues. Having a research supervisor is a great opportunity to benefit from insights,...
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The devil is in the (complex) detail
Health, Sports & Psychology

The devil is in the (complex) detail

...mental shortcuts that act to simplify, filter, and reduce the information load. Some of these shortcuts include: selecting confirmatory information, anchoring judgements on a few pieces of information (particularly the first piece of information), judging information based on how easy it is to imagine, and perceiving oneself to be less biased than others. Such cognitive...
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The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Customer Service
Money & Business

The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Customer Service

...mentality is appropriate in all and every contexts – especially organizations ostensibly aimed at the public rather than the private good. A crucial part of any business is to treat its customers right. Importantly this means all its customers. However, this ideal is not always followed in practice. This is especially true for those who may experience social prejudice...
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Causal loop diagrams
Science, Maths & Technology

Causal loop diagrams

...mental model behind links and identify the places where human choices are made. Guidelines Formulate the core problem and tell the story of the problem behaviour. Choose the key variables you want to work with and name them precisely. Use nouns or noun phrases rather than verbs (e.g. ‘orders shipped’ rather than ‘ship’). Be sure your variable fits into phrases,...
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Childhood in the Digital Age
OpenLearn Ireland

Childhood in the Digital Age

...mental development; it is a time when children experiment to make sense of the world. What role do digital technologies play in shaping early childhood experiences? Do they provide new opportunities for social awareness, such as establishing friendship groups and forming new identities, or do they, in fact, hinder children’s social development? Thinking - Childhood in...
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Video 15 mins
Introduction to child psychology
Education & Development

Introduction to child psychology

...mental health difficulties, who are at risk of having some kind of developmental disorder, such as autism or ADHD, or to assess the progress of children who have suffered physical or mental damage. By understanding how children of a certain age typically respond, clinical psychologists can identify symptoms of mental health difficulties, or developmental disorders ......
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Will players be fit to perform or ready to burnout at Euro 2020?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Will players be fit to perform or ready to burnout at Euro 2020?

...wellbeing and performance. Will burnout be a significant factor? Since March 2020, we have all lived through a global crisis that has created new sources of stress and challenges to be faced. Sport went through a period where every event was cancelled which resulted in a longer competition period characterised by fixture congestion as we tried to catch up. For example,...
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Riding the carousel or partners for life: what makes an effective coach–athlete relationship in tennis?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Riding the carousel or partners for life: what makes an effective coach–athlete relationship in tennis?

...wellbeing (Jowett, 2007) In elite sport, such as tennis, an effective and successful relationship is desirable because it encourages both performance success and positive development for both athlete and coach. Applying this definition to Raducanu’s situation, perhaps her relationship with Andrew Richardson was successful (US Open win) but not effective (how she was...
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