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Making sense of mental health problems
Health, Sports & Psychology

Making sense of mental health problems

...systems have been developed and implemented explain why diagnostic systems are challenged in the mental health field...Making sense of mental health problems: 1 Assessing mental health problems - Figure 1 Ethan from the interactive ‘A Support Net’ which is associated with this OpenLearn course In this course you will be introduced to the case study of Mandy, and you...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Joe Smith - Overview of Projects
Nature & Environment

Joe Smith - Overview of Projects

...think that’s pretty remarkable. The second project is called Earth in Vision and we are looking at 50 years of the BBC’s environment archive, trying to make sense of how we came to think this way about global environmental change issues and the role of broadcasting in that. And then there’s the Stories of Change project, where I’m working with a very large team of...
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Studying Environments and Societies
Society, Politics & Law

Studying Environments and Societies

...think there are several answers to that. And the first one is a kind of old fashioned basic answer, so I’ll give you that one first. And that is that geography very much takes things in their historical and place specific context, and tries to understand what's going on; using the circumstances of the times and the events so that it’s possible to get some...
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Mindfulness in mental health and prison settings
Health, Sports & Psychology

Mindfulness in mental health and prison settings

...think a bit more critically about the whole mindfulness movement after listening to a debate about how mindfulness is being applied in Western contexts. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course DD310 Counselling and forensic psychology: investigating crime and therapy. [Described image] Figure 1 ‘Seeing the light’ by Sue...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Introduction to adolescent mental health Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introduction to adolescent mental health

...think it is best seen as something systemic that happens around this period? TANYA BYRON If we look at a systemic model, what we are talking about is … the best way I describe it when I am teaching is just a series of sort of concentric circles. So you have the individual in the middle, and then you draw a circle around and sort of really symbolise their sort of TANYA...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Primary science: supporting children’s learning
Education & Development

Primary science: supporting children’s learning

...thinking about how to support primary-aged children’s learni\ng in science. Please note: while a range of science topics have been selected to illustrate how children’s learning can be supported, this course does not touch on experimental design, practicals or inquiry-based learning...Primary science: supporting children’s learning: 1.1 Attitudes to science -...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Othello and apartheid
History & The Arts

Othello and apartheid

...system of enforced legal racial segregation in South Africa that was imposed on the country's majority non white inhabitants by the minority white population. In 1988 actress and director Janet Suzman took the decision to defy the racist apartheid regime by staging Othello in Johannesburg with a mixed cast of both white and black actors. In these three films we explore...
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Managing for Sustainability
Science, Maths & Technology

Managing for Sustainability

...systems. This material is taken from Open University course T867: Managing for sustainability... Source planning in waste Chris Murphy gives a brief overview of the waste industry from his experience. Source planning in occupational safety Joe Taylor explains the significance of planning from a Health and safety perspective. What is an environmental audit? Why is an...
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Video 23 mins