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Exploring family health free course icon level 1: introductory icon

Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring family health

How can families support healthy living and cope with illness? This free course, Exploring family health, will provide an understanding of what is meant by socialisation. You will recognise how a family can learn and support good and poor health behaviours alongside government interventions, such as the 5 A DAY strategy. Identification of people...

Free course
8 hrs
Children’s perspectives on play free course icon level 1: introductory icon

Education & Development

Children’s perspectives on play

In this free course, Children's perspectives on play, you are asked to put yourself in the place of young children and to think about their view of play and their reasons for playing. When children have personal freedom to choose and make decisions about what and who they want to play with, as well as where they want to play, they are highly ...

Free course
5 hrs
Emotions and emotional disorders free course icon level 2: intermediate icon

Health, Sports & Psychology

Emotions and emotional disorders

In this free course, Emotions and emotional disorders, you will learn about some of the disorders related to the feelings of stress, sadness and anxiety including how these disorders are diagnosed, their biological correlates, and evidence of their possible causes.

Free course
6 hrs
Understanding children: babies being heard free course icon level 1: introductory icon

Education & Development

Understanding children: babies being heard

In this free course, Understanding children: babies being heard, you will find out some of the things that very young babies can do. You will also discover how babies can contribute to family life and relationships from birth. You will look at what they need from other adults and children, and what they can learn.

Free course
5 hrs
Nutritional psychiatry is the future of mental health treatment article icon

Health, Sports & Psychology

Nutritional psychiatry is the future of mental health treatment

It is time for medical education to take nutrition seriously argues Dr Joyce Cavaye, Senior Lecturer in the School of Health, Wellbeing and Social Care at The Open University.

Article
5 mins
Do I have mental health problems and should I get some help? article icon

Health, Sports & Psychology

Do I have mental health problems and should I get some help?

How do we recognise if a reaction to a stressor has developed into a mental health problem? Here's a five point guide...

Article
10 mins
Play, learning and the brain free course icon level 2: intermediate icon

Education & Development

Play, learning and the brain

This free course, Play, learning and the brain, examines the area of brain-based learning, with a particular focus on the development of the young child's brain, and is of particular relevance to those who work with young children. We begin by looking at the structure and functions of the brain, and the impact that sensory deprivation can have ...

Free course
15 hrs