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Supporting adult learners’ positive mental health
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Acknowledgements

This free course was compiled by Sarah Mander and Neill Boddington and the authors of this week’s content were Jonathan Baldwin and Neill Boddington, with editing and additional content by Jacqueline Young and Sarah Mander.

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Introduction image: Rita Seneca/Unsplash

Figure 1: adapted from Figure 1 The three modules and key skill sets covered in the Skills-Based Model of Personal Resilience in Baker, F.R.R., Baker, K., Burrell, J. (2021) ‘Introducing the skills-based model of personal resilience: Drawing on content and process factors to build resilience in the workplace’, Journal of Occupational and organizational Psychology, 94(6), pp. 458–481

Section 1.1 image: Brett Jordan/Unsplash

Figure 2: Taxonomic wheel of barriers and enablers to mental wellbeing in distance learning in Kate Lister, Jane Seale and Chris Douce (2023) Mental health in distance learning: a taxonomy of barriers and enablers to student mental wellbeing, Open Learning: The Journal of Open, Distance and e-Learning, 38(2), pp. 102–116

Section 2.1 image: athree23/Pixabay

Section 2.2 image: athree23/Pixabay

Section 3 image: Anna Shvets/Pexels

Section 5 image: Schäferle/Pixabay

Figure 3: Seligman’s (2011) PERMA model for wellbeing Seligman in M. (2018) ‘PERMA and the building blocks of well-being’, Journal of Positive Psychology.

Section 6 image: Nick Fewings/Unsplash

Audio/Video

Section 4 video: from the Digital Practice Project, accessible via YouTube https://youtu.be/CkI29AD5f8M ©The Open University

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