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Student Zone
February 13, 2022
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Thoughts on ‘Radical Perspectives On Mental Health’

I had the luxury of a spare Saturday yesterday (12th February 2022) that coincided with an online festival of presentations and discussion on all manner of things from philosophy to science, all the way around culture and back again. It was the Winter Revel brought to us by How The Light Gets In. I’ve been to... Read More
Commentary, Practice, Student Zone, Students, Theory
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January 28, 2022
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Motivational Interviewing – be like Columbo

Remember the television show Columbo starring Peter Falk? The fictional Columbo was a detective who solved murder mysteries – hugely popular in the 1970’s. Having recently used this analogy with a group of second year undergraduate students on the social work programme I teach on I realise that some of my cultural references may be... Read More
Communication, Practice, Student Zone, Students, Theory
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November 18, 2021
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Academic referencing: Durham’s Moon, Nuclear Weapons, Avengers and middle aged man returns to University.

After a 13 year break I have returned to University to complete an Education Masters at Sunderland.   This week I have been writing my first essay and returned to the business of academic referencing. My  inner free child has been screaming variously, “why bother” “don’t the lecturers already know all this”. Then my adult subliminal... Read More
Student Zone, Students, Theory
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December 3, 2020
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Getting to grips with theory: Biology – deterministic?

Philosophers forever have contemplated just where the mind is and how the mind relates to both brain and body. Descartes, a French philosopher from the 17th century, was closely associated with an idea called dualism. This idea holds that the mind is non-physical – that it’s situated somewhere other than the brain or body. It’s... Read More
Practice, Student Zone, Theory
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