How to study: one for the students!

This short piece from the British Psychological Society’s research blog offers “three unintuitive but very effective ways of studying based on findings from psychological research”. In short: space your study sessions out; text yourself regularly; and summarise and integrate before moving on to the next session. So stop cramming, take a break and find ways to summarise what you have just learnt! This doesn’t just have to be in note form – I loved mind mapping when studying for my degree. It works! (Any excuse to get the coloured pencils out…)

Think Family: Improving the Lives of Families at Risk

This pilot scheme will fund councils and their partners to provide a more coordinated response to families at risk from social exclusion.  The three year “family pathfinder” scheme will ensure that vulnerable parents who turn to local services received support that recognises the need of the whole family.  The scheme also aims to develop an evidence base in order to inform future policy designed to tackle social exclusion

Lots of links to resources on children: maternity, health and support

I’ve been collecting these for far too long so here goes:

The Children’s Plan: Building Brighter Futures: aimed at making this country the best place in the world for children to grow up. Working with the NHS and other partners, the Department for Children, Schools and Families and Department of Health will publish a Child Health Strategy in Spring 2008. 

NHS Maternity Services Survey: Responses came from 26,000 women who gave birth in January and February 2007.

Children’s Health: Our Future: A report by Dr Sheila Shribman, National Clinical Director for Children, on progress against the National Service Framework (NSF) for Children, Young People and Maternity Services, sets out current policy and the challenges and opportunities ahead.

Children and Young Persons Bill 2007: The Children and Young Persons Bill affects the delivery of local authority social services for children and young people, amending Parts 2 and 3 of the Children Act 1989.

Chronic and acute effects of artificial colourings and preservatives on children’s behaviour: A research study for those interested in the link between child nutrition and behaviour… This research suggests that eating or drinking certain mixes of artificial food colours together with the preservative sodium benzoate could be linked to a negative effect on children’s behaviour.

Children’s Environment and Health Action Plan: Some of the concerns raised include the impact of climate change on children, changing trends and obesity.

Personality disorder institute

 

The Personality Disorder Institute is based in Nottingham, UK, and aims to draw together research initiatives related to personality disorders. The site includes access to a journal, The Personality and Mental Health Journal, an email digest, a publications archive (separate from the journal), and links to news and events.

More from NICE

New guidelines:

Antenatal Care: This is an update of advice on ‘Antenatal care: routine care for the healthy pregnant woman’ that NICE produced in 2003.

Diabetes in pregnancy: This guidance covers the care and treatment of pregnant women with diabetes in the NHS in England and Wales. It also covers the care of their newborn babies. It is written for women who have diabetes or develop it in pregnancy, but it may also be useful for their families or for anyone with an interest in the condition.

From public health:

Mental wellbeing of children in primary education: Children’s social and emotional wellbeing is important in its own right but also because it affects their physical health (both as a child and as an adult) and can determine how well they do at school. Good social, emotional and psychological health helps protect children against emotional and behavioural problems, violence and crime, teenage pregnancy and the misuse of drugs and alcohol.

Maternal and child nutrition: This guidance aims to address disparities in the nutrition of low-income and other disadvantaged groups compared with the general population.

More great picture links!

Looking for online pictures on your subject?

Not sure where to start?

The following list is from a lecture day that myself and a library colleague went to, and has links to photographic collections, search engines which you use to track down images, and other search tools, gateways etc.

There’s also advice on copyright and (if you’re very keen) metadata.

Click here for the list -  courtesy of the UK e-Information Group (and Roger Mills of Oxford University Library Services).

One for Pre-Hospital and Emergency Care

We’ve been asked if we’ll promote the following event…The details are also on the IHSCP blog, http://ihscplibrarian.ning.com !

Life Connections, 28th March, Kettering Conference centre, a multi-conference and trade exhibition. Limited places available. Visit http://www.lifeconnections.uk.com

 Sarah

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Great free pictures! Heritage Explorer Site

The Heritage Explorer website is a great source of copyright-cleared, free and downloadable images.  It is highly recommended for teachers of all Key Stages, and for anyone interested in images of life from the past and present.

Over one million photographs from the 1850s to the present day: daily life, aerial views, historic buildings (and trams! – see above) .

Brought to you by the public archive of English Heritage.

Heritage Explorer  for more details and pictures.