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Supporting adult learners’ positive mental health
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Acknowledgements

This free course was compiled by Sarah Mander and Neill Boddington and the author of this week’s content was Simone Bols, with editing and additional content by Jacqueline Young, Sarah Mander and Neill Boddington.

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Section 1 image: THIS IS ZUN/Pexels

Section 1 image: Alex Azabache/Pexels

Section 1.1 image: Keira Burton/Pexels

Section 1.1 image: Matheus Bertelli/Pexels

Section 1.2 image: Pixabay/Pexels Creative Commons Zero

Section 1.3 image: photograph cytis/Pixabay

Section 2 image: Alex Green/Pexels

Section 2.1 image: Andrea Piacquadio/Pexels

Figure 1: adapted from: Critical Cultural Competence Model from Cooper, et al. (2011) Developing Critical Cultural Competence: A Guide for 21st-Century Educators, Corwin Press, 2011

Section 2.2 image: Yan Krukau/Pexels

Section 2.3 image: Andrea Piacquadio/Pexels

Section 3 image: RDNE Stock project/Pexels

Section 3.1 image: Skyler Gerald/Unsplash

Section 3.2 image: fauxels/Pexels

Section 3.3 image: Arif Riyanto/Unsplash

Section 3.4 image: Pexels

Section 4 image: RDNE Stock project/Pexels

Section 4 image: adapted https://www.loopsofgray.com/blog/5-minute-self-care

Section 6 image: Moaid Mefleh/Pexels

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Section 3.3 video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh8Gf18eNzw. Made by Team Sass Productions BBC Ideas © BBC

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