Tertiary Catalogue

Learn to Worry Less is a video which acknowledges we are inundated with worry, but shows we can learn to manage it even in unpredictable times. Learn to Worry Less is a video in which psychology expert Peter Quarry shows simple strategies to break your worry cycle through recognising the triggers and substituting positive thinking and action and putting the worries into a broader perspective. Show Less

Survive Uncertainty and Fear is a video that helps people understand feelings of uncertainty and fear, especially with the pandemic and its domino effect on global economies, job losses, health issues and a stream of bad news. This video helps people to manage their fear and concern. Survive Uncertainty and Fear helps move our focus on today and this week, and psychology expert Peter Quarry suggests using certainty anchors, a pause button and a contingency plan to cope with uncertain times and fear in people's lives. Show Less

Survive a Personal Crisis is an important program for anyone facing death of a loved one, illness, relationship breakdown, financial loss or trauma. Each can deeply affect your ability to work. During times of personal crisis, Peter Quarry suggests that we realise it is normal to experience strong emotions, and that we need to reach out for help. Survive a Personal Crisis offers helpful ways to cope with and survive with life's many challenges and explores ways to seek assistance, recognise that healing takes time and seek a professional if you're in a downward spiral. Show Less

Recover from my Mistake is a video to help anyone feeling bad about a making a mistake, to stop wasting time beating yourself up about it, and learn to recover gracefully and thrive. We all make mistakes and can recover, and learn from them, as Peter Quarry, behavioural expert explains. Recover from my Mistake is a video in which you will learn to take responsibility, acknowledge the mistake, apologise and make amends. You will learn the value of openly sharing your insights with your team. It enhances your reputation. Show Less

How to Develop Optimism is a simple video that shows how optimism is a skill you can learn and how you can benefit in your relationships, your work and your health. Psychology expert Peter Quarry describes the considerable difference you make to your life once you choose to view events optimistically. How to Develop Optimism helps learners to cope with life's challenges in a positive way. Learn to see what can be changed positively in your situation. As Peter Quarry explains, when you choose the 'glass half full' approach, difficulties become markedly easier and your relationships improve. Show Less

Mind over Mood will help you understand how to control your moods and switch to positive constructive thinking. Psychologist Eve Ash explains how to change, what she calls, the Negative Land of W (Wishing, Whining and Wasting Time) to the Positive: Wanting to Achieve, Willing to Learn and Working Effectively. Once this video is completed you will have learned how we waste valuable time wishing for something different or whining about finishing a task or project. You will know how to choose your mood using the Positive Land of W approach: Wanting to achieve, being Willing to learn, and Working effectively. It's a case of mind over mood. Show Less

Overcome Anxiety will help people feel normal, given 1 in 4 people now experience anxiety more frequently. In this video, learners will discover that anxiety includes symptoms like a racing heart, a desire to withdraw socially, excessive worrying, even panic attacks. Overcome Anxiety is a timely video for the increasing number of people experiencing and complaining of anxiety, providing proven ways to overcome the problem. Psychology expert Peter Quarry suggests slow breathing, mindfulness and challenging your self-talk. Show Less

Overcome Insomnia is a video that will help the estimated 30% of people who have trouble with how well or how much they are sleeping. While everyone's sleep hours differ, we all need sufficient deep and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep to be physically, emotionally and mentally healthy. Overcome Insomnia is a video that will help learners to manage and reduce insomnia by learning to quieten your mind and stress levels. Yoga is a proven technique for reducing stress, but any daily exercise helps. You will learn the importance of avoiding stimulants and making your bedroom a place of rest, not work or screens. Show Less

Overcome a Knockback is a video explaining how knockbacks handled correctly, can be useful guides to achieving what we want. Whether it's a rejected job application, a project proposal or an idea that you floated at a meeting, knockbacks can be hard to overcome. Overcome a Knockback shows how knockbacks or rejections are an inevitable part of life. When they occur, it feels deeply personal and it's hard to pick up the courage to keep going. But knockbacks are opportunities in disguise. In this video, psychology expert Peter Quarry shows how to overcome knockbacks through self-talk, creating new strategies, using a support network and taking a realistic approach to moving forward. Show Less

Eyewitness testimony and its veracity presents problems for juries and judges, according to the University of California's Dr Elizabeth Loftus. She tells Eve Ash that this intersection of psychology and law has revealed that the more confident a witness, the more they are believed even if their memories are mistaken. More than 300 people, such as Steven Titus (misidentified as a rapist) have been convicted through faulty or false memories. The problem is compounded when zealous detective coach witnesses, or when false and distorted memories are "implanted". People sometimes cling to a mistaken belief, even when the evidence shows they are wrong. Show Less

Eve Ash discusses why people tell lies with the University of Massachusetts Amherst's Professor Robert Feldman, a specialist in psychological and brain sciences. He has studied lying for many years and observes that (1) all people tell lies in different situations; (2) many are not truthful on their resumes and in job interviews; (3) sometimes people confabulate to fill memory gaps caused by stressful or traumatic conditions. In crime situations, he explains that false memories occur, and people's eagerness to find a culprit sometimes leads to the wrong person being convicted. You can't always tell a liar from their physical cues (e.g. excessive blinking, looking away). This can cause deception bias and investigations clouded by tunnel vision. Dr Feldman and Eve Ash discuss the case of Sue Neill-Fraser, convicted and jailed for murder in Tasmania in 2010. Show Less

Eve Ash talks to Professor Robert Feldman (University of Massachusetts Amherst) about his research for the book "The Liar in Your Life": He reveals that we all lie at different times, there are many types of lies ranging from the unconscious to lies of commission, and that people often lie within the first ten minutes of meeting someone. We lie to create an impression, we lie because we are anxious, we make up narratives to fill gaps in our memories. We have a "truth bias" in as much as we don't want to believe another person might be lying. Lies create spiral effects ("You lie, I lie"). We might be suspicious of liars, but we also tend to forgive them. Lies lead to inauthenticity in relationships. People compartmentalize lies and can live with them for many, many years. Show Less

People sometimes lie for a reason and will exaggerate to enhance their prestige in the eyes of others. People having secret affairs tell lies; this was the situation for Eve Ash's mother who lied for years about Eve's biological father. Eve's subsequent investigation revealed her real father, and how he was built into her story, although her mother never admitted the truth. Discovering her personal story has led Eve to forgive her mother's deception. Show Less

The controversies surrounding abortion involve a clash between two fundamental rights: the right of the unborn child, or foetus, and the rights of the mother. This video begins with the storm created by leading case of Roe vs Wade and then provides students with an unbiased analysis of the ethical issues underlying demands for the criminalisation and the legalisation of abortion. Show Less

When Vincent Li murdered and then cannibalised 22-year-old Tim McLean on a Greyhound bus heading for Winnipeg, the shock waves ran through Canadian society. But when Li was found unfit to face trial and later released, shock turned to outrage and triggered a social media moral panic. This film looks at the social reaction to Tim McLean's murder and how it challenged the conventional sociological model of how moral panics are generated. Show Less

This programme begins by defining stress and its causes. Types of stressors like daily life hassles and major life events, and the psychological responses of eustress and distress are explored. The second half of the programme looks closely at the Transactional Model of Stress and Coping (Lazarus and Folkman) and how cognitive appraisal of experiences – how we perceive a situation – impacts stress. Show Less

We all feel stress: a response to demands that exceed our ability to cope. It’s not only psychological – biology plays a major role in the stress response. This programme details the immediate physiological processes of fight or flight responses, as well as the stages of General Adaptive Syndrome (GAS). The negative effects of prolonged stress on the body are also explored. Show Less

Psychologists have studied the cognitive and emotional strategies we use to cope with stress for decades. This programme explores the benefits and costs of two widely recognised strategies: avoidance and approach. Additional strategies of social support, exercise, drug therapy and biofeedback are also discussed. Show Less

Psychologists don’t just owe a duty of care to the participants of their research, they also have a duty to produce creative and socially useful research, and sometimes these obligations come into conflict. From this basis, an ethical case can be made even for research commonly seen as ‘unethical’. Students are given a case study and asked to discuss the ethical issues. Show Less

While most psychologists look to explain behaviour in terms of factors within individuals, others focus more on situations, and one of these is Philip Zimbardo. Here Zimbardo uses extracts from his infamous Stanford Prison Study and abuse of prisoners in Abu Ghraib to illustrate this view. Show Less

Do we have choices in life or is our behaviour determined? Recent advances in neuroscience have thrown new light on this long running issue. Here we look at, and reconstruct, Libet’s seminal experiment with Professor Patrick Haggard of the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience. Show Less