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1.9 Conclusion In this course you have seen the importance of the shared meanings that we construct together – how they enable us to act collectively within social situations. In particular, you have explored Goffman’s ideas about how those meanings are constructed through: the way we present ourselves within social situations the way we respond to other people’s presentation of themselves and help to shore up their performances.
Introduction Care is needed at all stages of life. This course makes care in the family its focus because the overwhelming majority of care, including health care, is supplied in families, much of it in private, much of it unnoticed and unremarked upon. The meaning of the term (informal carer) and the word (care) itself are explored. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of Level 1 study in Author(s):
Conclusion This free course provided an introduction to studying Health and Social Care. It took you through a series of exercises designed to develop your approach to study and learning at a distance and helped to improve your confidence as an independent learner.
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5.1 Introduction Elite athletes are aware of the importance of heart performance and blood flow and many have specific training programmes to increase the strength and efficiency of the heart. This is not, however, just something that impacts on elite athletes. Even those of us engaged in sport at an amateur level or just for recreation will have experienced the effect of sport on the heart. After intense physical activity our heart pounds and possibly our head pounds too from the blood that is being pumped t
Learning outcomes After studying this course, you should be able to: understand how the body works in a scientific sense, and that a scientific view is necessary for us to study how performance in sport is linked to performance of the body explain the function of the heart briefly and looks at the importance of healthy hearts in sport, by looking at athletes and efficient hearts understand the topics of blood and blood flow understand the role of oxyge
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5 General points on assessment Look at the notes you have made on the four clips, and decide what general points about assessment have been made. Acknowledgements The content acknowledged below is Proprietary (see terms and conditions) and is used under licence. Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this course: Course image: Author(s): 8 Conclusion In this course you have been introduced to a diverse range of ideas about health. To recap, the themes and ideas you have met in this course are: The diversity of accounts of health. An important theme of this course is that there is a great diversity in what people mean when they talk of health; sometimes these meanings conflict and sometimes they can coexist but health is a creative and multifaceted concept. The importance of 2.4 Bringing your learning together in reflective practice In this section you are going to bring together the knowledge and skills you have gained so far and consider what is meant by ‘reflective practice’. You have been introduced to different ways of understanding the role of a social worker and the lives of the people social workers work with. You should have started to recognise the different aspects of what it means Keep on learning   There are more than 800 courses on OpenLearn for you to 1.2.1 Boundaries and terminology In another context Shakespeare asked, ‘What's in a name?’, and suggested by way of an answer that a rose may smell as sweet whatever it is called. In the context of social boundaries, however, the language used is actually very important in determining ‘who's in’ and ‘who's out’. Learning outcomes After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the complexity and dilemmas of diverse perspectives in the field of mental health and distress undestand the importance of service users/'survivors' experiences and perspectives understand how mental health issues affect everyone understand the range of risks faced by service users/'survivors' in their everyday lives. 3.9 Acting ethically: tools for analysis Do the usual principles underpinning conventional health care ethics provide an adequate or acceptable framework for the discussion of ethics in the CAM relationship? Most bioethics teaching in medical schools in the UK and USA draws on the principles-based approach to considering ethical dilemmas. To recap, the four principles are: respect for autonomy the duty to benefit (beneficence) the duty not to harm (non-maleficenc 1.1 Introduction Since the Second World War, health has come to signify much more than an absence of physical disease for many people in western societies. Interest in health now includes concerns about food, the strength of social networks and the quality of the environment. The stresses of modern living are recognised as a serious health issue. Personal choices are positively or negatively charged, depending on whether they are ‘good for you’ or ‘bad for you’. Most newspapers and magazines publish n 3.1 Social work values and legal values Social work practice is founded on and informed by a value base; however, this value base is uncertain and changing (Shardlow, 1998). It is important that practitioners are able to reflect on their values and prejudices and consider the implications of these for practice. The next activity requires you to think about this before going on to look in more detail at what is meant by social work values. 1.6 Valuing diversity Social workers need to recognise diversity: valuing and respecting service users – irrespective of, for example, their ethnicity, gender or age – is central to good practice. It is also about working in a way that counters the unfair or unequal treatment of individuals or groups on the basis of their race, gender, class, age, culture, religion, sexuality or ability. There is a growing body of law that seeks to prohibit and punish a range of discriminatory behaviours in various kinds of so India's Social Media Elections
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