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Coping in isolation: Time to Think

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During this pandemic, millions worldwide face prolonged periods of social isolation. What
can you learn about coping today from Open University graduates who studied while
imprisoned in the Maze and Long Kesh prison during the years of conflict in and
about Northern Ireland? In this free course, two graduates, David and Michael, reflect on the lockdown under COVID-19, living with uncertainty and on their study
experiences while imprisoned in the 1970s and 1980s, and offer ways to adjust
to the current pressures facing people across the globe.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology

Panic attacks: what they are and what to do about them

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Panic attacks: what they are and what to do about them is a free course that should be helpful to anyone who experiences panic or panic attacks, for their family and friends, and anyone more generally interested in mental health and mental
health treatment. The course starts by exploring formal definitions of panic and panic attack. These are then contrasted with personal accounts of the experience of panic. It also presents some of the key understandings of why panic attacks happen,
and provides an overview of the main ways people can get help and help themselves. 
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology

Improving aerobic fitness

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Aerobic fitness is integral to successful sports performance and to maintaining good health. But what sort of exercise should you be doing to develop your aerobic fitness? This free course, Improving aerobic fitness, will help you to answer this question by introducing you to principles of aerobic exercise prescription.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology

How Healthy Are You?

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How healthy are you? Have a go at this interactive quiz on diet, physical activity and lifestyle choices and see if you need to make some personal changes.
Category: Health

Understanding depression and anxiety

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This free course, Understanding depression and anxiety, explores the causes of these mental health issues, with a particular focus on stress. You will consider some risk and causal factors for some depression and anxiety disorders, and learn about the biology and psychology behind them.
Category: Health

Work and mental health

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Although being at work during periods of mental illness can be difficult for those with mental health problems, most people with these difficulties could take paid employment if it were not for numerous barriers in the workplace and the wider community (Centre for Mental Health, 2013). In this free course, Work and mental health, you will look at some of the ways in which employment affects mental health and what can be done to support people in finding and keeping work.
Category: Health

Success in Interviews - How to Use Psychology to Gain that Job!

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Interviews can feel very daunting, especially if it has been a while since your last one, or the job is one you are really excited about. There are ways to help overcome nerves and anxiousness, ensuring that you present your strengths in the best, and most confident way possible.
Category: Psychology

What You Need to Know About Psychometrics

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Employers increasingly use psychometrics in job shortlisting and assessment, to help them make recruitment decisions. Read on to find out more about why this is the case, what to expect and how to be more successful when taking these tests.
Category: Psychology

The Value of Emotional Intelligence in a Challenging Workplace

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Emotional intelligence is the ability to understand, use, and manage emotions in positive ways to relieve stress, communicate effectively, empathise with others, overcome challenges, and defuse conflict. Developing emotional intelligence skills can help us to be more successful in both our personal and professional lives: developing better relationships; adapting to, and coping with, challenging situations; and improving mental wellbeing.
Category: Psychology

Identifying Values – Finding the Things that Matter the Most to You for the Way You Live and Work

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Values are things that matter the most to you for the way you live and work. This article should help you to identify which ones are most important to you.
Category: Psychology

Reframing Self-Limiting Beliefs

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Self-limiting beliefs can often creep into our thoughts and lower our self-regard (respect and acceptance for ourselves, despite any shortcomings). However, even in challenging times, it is possible to consciously change how we think about ourselves, reframing unhelpful beliefs and building more confidence to achieve goals and positively move forward in life.
Category: Psychology

Feeling Stuck in your Job or Career? The ACT Matrix may be the Tool you Need

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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is an evidence-based therapy which offers simple tools to help deal with everyday life challenges, and effectively handle difficult thoughts and feelings, accepting what is out of our personal control and committing to action that improves our lives.
Category: Psychology

Everyone Can Learn to Coach! Coaching with the OSCAR Model

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Do you feel you don’t know where to start with coaching, or need to refresh your skills? The OSCAR Coaching Model is a solutions-focused coaching model, with a simple structure to keep the coaching process focused, structured and time effective.
Category: Psychology

Giving and Receiving Powerful Feedback

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Have you thought about how you give feedback? Giving feedback in a more structured way using the AID (Action, Impact, Desired outcome) model may help for both highlighting positive behaviour, and challenging behaviour that needs developmental action.
Category: Psychology

Workplace Survivor Syndrome

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What is workplace survivor syndrome? Sharon Davis explores the psychology of this...
Category: Psychology

Taking a Fresh Look at Managing Employee Engagement and Wellbeing

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Recognising the positive and reciprocal link between employee engagement and wellbeing, may help organisations navigate post-pandemic challenges. Andrea Pearce investigates...
Category: Psychology

What is Locus of Control?

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Do you have an internal or external locus of control? How does this affect your wellbeing or work? How can you take control of it? This article explores...
Category: Psychology

Job Change and the Grief Cycle: The effects of losing our job or changing work role

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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...
Category: Psychology

Wellbeing for Work

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Wellbeing for Work is one of the five themes in the Applying Psychology to Work hub. The hub provides tools, resources and short courses to help develop skills and knowledge towards or enhancing current employment experiences or preparing for new roles or positions.

Category: Psychology

Trust in the Workplace

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In the Trust and Work theme in our Applying Psychology to Work hub we have many rescources to help you explore managing trust.
Category: Psychology
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