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Making sense of sudden mass deaths

Making sense of sudden mass deaths Updated content Copyrighted imageCredit: wallyg under CC-BY-NC-ND licence
Introductory Level Duration 5 mins Updated 23 May 2013
Sudden, brutal death; hundreds and hundreds of them. What does it do to you to be one of the bereaved in such a traumatic event?

Should human conditions be classed as illnesses?

Should human conditions be classed as illnesses? New content Copyrighted imageCredit: Bowie15 | Dreamstime.com
Introductory Level Updated 21 May 2013
May 2013 sees the publication of the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. So, why all the fuss about revising a manual for...

DEBATE: Should we have a smaller financial services sector?

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DEBATE: Should we have a smaller financial services sector? New content Copyrighted imageCredit: Aprescindere | Dreamstime.com
Introductory Level Updated 20 May 2013
Do you think we should have a smaller financial services sector? Vote in our poll and leave your comments

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Children and young people’s participation

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Children and young people’s participation
Masters Level Duration 12 hours Updated 25 May 2013
Listening to children is a first step in the participation agenda, which is reasonably well established. By contrast, enabling children to share in decision making...

Foundations for self-directed support in Scotland

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Foundations for self-directed support in Scotland Copyrighted imageCredit: (c) John Birdsall
Introductory Level Duration 40 hours Updated 25 May 2013
This course will provide the foundations of understanding self-directed support in Scotland in the wider context of personalisation. Providing grounding in the culture and ways...

Designing space for dementia care

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Designing space for dementia care
Introductory Level Duration 8 hours Updated 25 May 2013
The lives of people with dementia can be improved by careful consideration of key features of the design of the spaces in which they live....

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An introduction to health and social care

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An introduction to health and social care Updated content Copyrighted imageCredit: The Open University/Karen Parker
Introductory Level Duration 600 hours Updated 20 May 2013 Register by 05 Sep 2013
Explore through real-life case studies how we give or receive health and social care services in residential and community settings, hospitals, clinics or GP surgeries.If...

Understanding the autism spectrum

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Understanding the autism spectrum Updated content Copyrighted imageCredit: The Open University/Karen Parker
Introductory Level Duration 150 hours Updated 17 May 2013 Register by 10 Oct 2013
An accessible introduction to autism, this course explores principles and problems of diagnosis, possible underlying causes and issues of care, education and therapy.This is a...

Signals and perception: the science of the senses

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Signals and perception: the science of the senses Updated content Copyrighted imageCredit: Dreamstime
Advanced Level Duration 300 hours Updated 17 May 2013 Register by 05 Sep 2013
Investigate how we interact with our environment through our senses – using concepts from biology, chemistry, physics and psychology to explore the process psychologists call...