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Health, Sports & Psychology
Challenging ideas in mental health
Take a new and different look at mental health. This free course, Challenging ideas in mental health, invites you to think differently about life's dilemmas by taking account of the views of all concerned, especially people experiencing mental distress. It explores ideas and practice in mental health, and will appeal to a wide range of people.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Managing Relationships and Work
The Managing Relationships theme within the Applying Psychology to Work hub has been designed to help you understand your workplace relationships. It provides you with skills, tools, resources and short courses to manage and maintain healthy and sustaining professional relationships with your colleagues.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Job Change and the Grief Cycle: The effects of losing our job or changing work role
When we lose a job or it goes through a fundamental change, particularly without knowledge and or consultation, this can have a profound effect on our sense of wellbeing and worker identity. This article explores the impact...
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Signposts for Work
Signposts for Work has been developed as a theme within the Applying Psychology to Work Hub, providing tools, resources and short courses to help develop skills and knowledge towards preparing for new work or enhancing a current career journey.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
The benefits of mindfulness and five common myths surrounding it
Mindfulness has grown in popularity in recent years but how exactly can we apply it and what misconceptions surround the practice? This article explores...
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Keep me walking: People living with dementia and outdoor environments
What works to keep people living with dementia and their carers engaging with the walks and outdoor environments? A new Parks Trust and Open University initiative finds out...
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Education & Development
Start your career with OpenLearn
Leaving education and embarking on a new career can be daunting. If you’re looking for some support, this collection of FREE courses from The Open University is here to give you a helping hand…
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Health, Sports & Psychology
The ageing brain: 'use it or lose it'
What happens to our brains as we age and is there anything we can do to prevent memory loss and brain shrinkage? This article digs into the research...
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Careers education and guidance
Successful transitions – whether from lower secondary to upper secondary, into work-based training or university, or into work at any age – are life-enhancing for individuals and crucial to our future social and economic well-being. They are also an indicator of a good school. This free course, Careers education and guidance (CEG), discusses ...
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Budgeting for University
Hanna from the Student Recruitment Team at Cardiff Met is joined by Student Money Advisor Abbie and student Georgina to share some top tips on budgeting for uni.
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Money & Business
You and your money
An important aspect of personal finance is the way in which individuals and households manage their debt, how much it costs and the different types of credit they can or cannot access. This free course, You and your money, explores these issues, with respect to the wider, changing, social and economic context.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
How to age well while self-isolating
People have been made to isolate to delay the spread of COVID-19 but there are several risks of self-isolation to older people. This article and video offer some tips on how to combat these.