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Mental health in society free course icon level 1: introductory icon

Health, Sports & Psychology

Mental health in society

In this free course, Mental health in society, you will explore and critically reflect on mental health. You will explore the relationship between the lived experiences of individuals, and the society and environment in which they live. Different perspectives, approaches and models of understanding and critiquing mental health will be explored ...

Free course
8 hrs
Doping: a contemporary sports issue case study free course icon level 2: intermediate icon

Health, Sports & Psychology

Doping: a contemporary sports issue case study

In this free course, doping (performance enhancing drugs, or PEDs) is used as an example of how contemporary issues in sport might be studied. Doping is used to illustrate how you can think about the debates involved in an issue and this will help you develop appropriate skills to discuss other contemporary issues in sport.

Free course
6 hrs
Caring for adults free course icon level 1: introductory icon

Health, Sports & Psychology

Caring for adults

Caring for adults is an introductory course for anyone in a caring role, either paid or unpaid. It builds on what you already know to give you a better understanding of your role as a carer. It also supports your own well-being by giving you some ideas and information about looking after yourself and dealing with stress.

Free course
15 hrs
Understanding mental capacity free course icon level 1: introductory icon Badge icon

Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding mental capacity

This free course, Understanding mental capacity, covers the principles and criteria underpinning the assessment of mental capacity and decision making in the UK.

Free course
24 hrs
Introducing ageing free course icon level 1: introductory icon

Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing ageing

Everyone is ageing, whatever their current age, and we live in a world where many people are living much longer than previous generations. This is often seen as a problem. But is it? This free course, Introducing ageing, will help you to think about this issue by introducing you to some key ideas in studying later life.

Free course
11 hrs
Introducing public health free course icon level 2: intermediate icon

Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing public health

This free course, Introducing public health, presents some key elements of public health and health promotion. It considers the scope and focus of public health and how it is subject to change and located within the wider global context.

Free course
6 hrs
Introducing the psychology of our relationships with fictional villains free course icon level 1: introductory icon

Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing the psychology of our relationships with fictional villains

This free course, featuring interviews with famous crime fiction authors, explores psychological theory and research on the relationships we form with fictional characters.

Free course
12 hrs
Sporting women in the media free course icon level 2: intermediate icon

Health, Sports & Psychology

Sporting women in the media

The mass media (e.g. radio, TV, internet) has become one of the most powerful institutional influences in society. This free course, Sporting women in the media, explores whether gendered inequalities exist in sport by evaluating the media coverage. The media can be highly influential in shaping perceptions about gender in sport and headlines ...

Free course
8 hrs
Exploring career mentoring and coaching free course icon level 1: introductory icon Badge icon

Money & Business

Exploring career mentoring and coaching

This free course, Exploring career mentoring and coaching, will explain what mentors and career coaches do and how a colleague or expert who can ask the right questions, challenge assumptions, and help an individual to find the best solutions for themselves, can make a significant difference in a wide range of situations and contexts.

Free course
24 hrs
Improving patient, family and colleague witnesses’ experiences of Fitness to Practise proceedings free course icon level 1: introductory icon

Health, Sports & Psychology

Improving patient, family and colleague witnesses’ experiences of Fitness to Practise proceedings

This evidence-based course provides learning about the Fitness to Practise process and being a witness.

Free course
5 hrs
Promoting the effective management of children’s pain – part 2 free course icon level 2: intermediate icon

Health, Sports & Psychology

Promoting the effective management of children’s pain – part 2

This is the second of two OpenLearn courses focusing on the effective management of children’s pain. The focus of the first course was on why pain matters and how a pain management framework can be used to deliver the effective management of children’s pain. This second free course further develops how to improve children’s pain management in ...

Free course
4 hrs
Physical and mental health for young children free course icon level 1: introductory icon

Education & Development

Physical and mental health for young children

This free course will increase your knowledge and skills and show you ways that adults, both parents and professionals, can play an active role in supporting and promoting good health in babies and young children.

Free course
20 hrs