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Conversaciones sobre salud mental y resiliencia, mediadas por la cultura con sobrevivientes del conflicto armado en una región del Caribe colombiano.
español En el municipio de San Jacinto, el 75% de la población ha sido víctima de la violencia política, lo que ha causado graves efectos en la salud mental, el tejido social y las tradiciones culturales de las comunidades. San Jacinto se destaca por su riqueza y diversidad cultural como factores protectores frente a situaciones de violencia.
Lifelong Learning: How is it connected with volunteerism?
By Laura Simonds An often-overlooked source of learning is volunteerism. Whether you are, have been or want to be a volunteer, those who work in community service as volunteers would agree that the experience offers many lessons, including new insights, new relationships and new skills. Yes, there is a connection between volunteerism and lifelong learning.
Lifelong Learning: What are we going to do with our longer lives?
By Laura Simonds and Jim Burns This shouldn’t surprise you — we’re an aging nation. By 2050, estimates suggest, Americans over age 60 will outnumber those aged 10 to 24. We need to ask ourselves what the final quarter of our lives will look like. Fortunately, there are opportunities for us to figure it out. Two organizations can help: the Longevity Project at Stanford University and the Fromm Institute for Lifelong Learning at the University of San Francisco.
Lifelong Learning: A key to a more fulfilling life
By Laura Simonds Lifelong learning provides the voluntary, self-motivated and continuous pursuit of knowledge for personal or professional reasons throughout an individual’s life. It covers all learning activities — formal, nonformal and informal.
Reflections on Returning: Widening Access to Clinical Psychology Through Outreach
by Mory Kakar, Trainee Clinical Psychologist Yearly statistics and professional reflections continue to emphasise that Clinical Psychology remains an underrepresented profession in terms of ethnicity, socioeconomic background and gender (British Psychological Society [BPS], 2022; Association of Clinical Psychologists UK [ACP-UK], 2024). Social inclusion is a growing priority in Clinical Psychology leadership (BPS, 2022; ACP, 2024s).
Locating resources from under-represented regions and authors for teaching and research on the PsychD clinical programme at the University of Surrey - a service-related project | Equality and Inclusion in Clinical Psychology
By Lydia Trimble and Maisie Krisson, Cohort 51 Trainee Clinical Psychologists, and Laura Simonds, Senior Lecturer, PsychD Clinical Programme Background to the project… The PsychD clinical psychology programme commissioned this service-related project as part of its ongoing work towards decolonising the curriculum. The project was the second phase of an ongoing effort to locate more diverse resources for practice and research within clinical psychology.
Leaning into the uncomfortable feeling to make room for change
By Maddy Coe, Research Assistant in the Surrey Clinical Psychology Team What’s the problem? It’s not difficult to see where the idea of the stereotypical ‘white, middle-class female’ psychologist comes from. All you need to do is look at your cohort in an undergraduate psychology lecture theatre to see a fairly homogenous bunch staring back at you.
Institutional GRACE-ism[1] and The Community Psychology Unit Reading list
By Warren Matofsky [1] GRACE-ism refers to reproduction of oppressive discourse relating to Gender, Race, Ability, Class, Ethnicity & Sexuality. What’s in a reading list and its production? Yet with Community Psychology, compiling a list that is informed by our collective commitment to decolonising the curriculum, seems to set an extra high bar. Surely a concern with social justice and anti-GRACE-ism is bread and butter for community psychologists?
The Effectiveness of Imagery Rescripting Interventions for Military Veterans With Nightmares and Sleep Disturbances: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis
This meta-analysis found that imagery rescripting interventions produced a significant, medium improvement in sleep quality and PTSD symptoms, but not nightmare frequency, in comparison with control groups. Significant improvements in nightmare frequency, sleep quality and PTSD symptoms were also found in imagery rescripting interventions from pretreatment to posttreatment.
Paul Christy offers tips about retiring
Paul Christy looks forward to the day when he will welcome people through these doors of the restored Holly Theater. Have you started thinking about retiring? To explore different answers and approaches to this question, I recently talked with Paul Christy about his pre- and post-retirement experiences, as well as his belief in lifelong learning.
The FDA’s latest leafy greens action plan is more of the same
Opinion The FDA’s newly released 2020 Leafy Greens STEC Action Plan offers a well-worn list of produce safety agenda items. Like previous agency action plans, this latest plan pledges support for efforts to encourage good agricultural practices (known as “GAPs”), make inspections more reliable, and enhance outbreak investigations.
ACCC issues guidance on competition risks in IP transactions: Beware the inadvertent cartel | Lexology
The ACCC has issued final Guidelines on how Australia’s competition laws will apply to intellectual property assignments and licences following the repeal of the ‘IP exemption’ from prohibitions on anti-competitive conduct which was contained in subsection 51(3) of the Competition and Consumer Act (CCA). Following a grace period, from 13 September the IP exemption will cease to apply.
Australian Patent Update: three key changes underway | Lexology
Last August we considered IP Australia’s Exposure Draft outlining the potential impact of proposed changes to the Patents Act 1990 (Cth). Following the Exposure Draft’s release, IP Australia received 18 submissions in response, including submissions from AusBiotech, Medicines Australia and the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property.
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