In this course, you’ll explore the way suspects are dealt with during a police investigation and learn about how psychology can help the police with their enquiries.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
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Do you support women’s performance in sport or fitness as a coach or parent? Are you a female athlete who wants to optimise your performance using recent research insights? If so, then this free course is for you. It addresses the problem of sports science research traditionally being
male dominated and the assumption that if it works for men then it must work
for women. It allows you to explore specific female physiological and psychological topics such as relationships between the menstrual cycle, breast support, pelvic floor health and physical performance. You will also find out more about how to effectively communicate with female athletes.
male dominated and the assumption that if it works for men then it must work
for women. It allows you to explore specific female physiological and psychological topics such as relationships between the menstrual cycle, breast support, pelvic floor health and physical performance. You will also find out more about how to effectively communicate with female athletes.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
The athlete’s journey through sport
can be characterised by several transitions and periods of change. This course is
designed to help you understand that journey, whether in reference to a
professional or recreational athlete, and the nature of support they may need at
different times. The course also provides practical guidance, whether you support
athletes as a coach or parent or whether you are an athlete yourself, and draws
on a wealth of case study and audio-visual material to bring the athlete’s
journey to life.
can be characterised by several transitions and periods of change. This course is
designed to help you understand that journey, whether in reference to a
professional or recreational athlete, and the nature of support they may need at
different times. The course also provides practical guidance, whether you support
athletes as a coach or parent or whether you are an athlete yourself, and draws
on a wealth of case study and audio-visual material to bring the athlete’s
journey to life.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
This free course provides an introduction to adolescent mental health. The course is designed to encourage a greater understanding of mental health issues as well as to explore the variety of strategies that can be employed to support young people.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
This course takes the real-life cases of a number of different
people to explore what it is like to have the label ‘learning disability’. The
course also considers how it feels to support someone with a learning
disability, as a family member, a friend, an advocate or a paid worker. Through
these human stories the course considers the complex moral, ethical and
practical debates learning disability gives rise to.
people to explore what it is like to have the label ‘learning disability’. The
course also considers how it feels to support someone with a learning
disability, as a family member, a friend, an advocate or a paid worker. Through
these human stories the course considers the complex moral, ethical and
practical debates learning disability gives rise to.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
Have you ever experienced a sport injury? Have you ever thought there could be a psychological dimension to sport injuries, as well as a physical one?
Sport injury is relatively common among sport
and exercise participants, and while the physical impact of injury is often easy to recognise, the psychological impact is less obvious. In this free course, Exploring the psychological aspects of sport injury, you will examine the relationship between injury and psychological factors. You will look at the link between injury and psychology
at two distinct points – before an injury has occurred and then following an injury. First, you will consider the psychological factors that may increase the likelihood of sustaining a sport injury (pre-injury), and then you will consider psychological reactions to the incidence of a sport injury (post-injury). The course will also allow you to
examine how sport and exercise psychology can be used both to help minimise the risk of injury and to help people cope better with sport injury rehabilitation. The video below featuring OU student and Olympic Gold Medallist Helen
Richardson-Walsh explains more.
Sport injury is relatively common among sport
and exercise participants, and while the physical impact of injury is often easy to recognise, the psychological impact is less obvious. In this free course, Exploring the psychological aspects of sport injury, you will examine the relationship between injury and psychological factors. You will look at the link between injury and psychology
at two distinct points – before an injury has occurred and then following an injury. First, you will consider the psychological factors that may increase the likelihood of sustaining a sport injury (pre-injury), and then you will consider psychological reactions to the incidence of a sport injury (post-injury). The course will also allow you to
examine how sport and exercise psychology can be used both to help minimise the risk of injury and to help people cope better with sport injury rehabilitation. The video below featuring OU student and Olympic Gold Medallist Helen
Richardson-Walsh explains more.
- Teacher: Caroline Heaney
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
Sport can place high levels of stress on athletes, coaches and others involved. If unable to cope with these stresses they may be vulnerable to developing burnout. This free course, Learning from sport burnout and overtraining, examines burnout in sport from various perspectives including both the coach’s and athlete’s perspective. Drawing on real life case studies it explores how coaches can recognise and prevent burnout in athletes, and investigates the prevention and treatment of burnout in coaches. This course is for you if you are interested in developing an holistic understanding of burnout in sport.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
Are you responsible for supporting sport and physical activity coaches to become inspirational and excellent in their practice? This course is designed for coach developers, educators, mentors and tutors who support coaches to improve. You will explore how people learn, what are the skills and qualities of an effective coach of coaches, as well appreciate how to ask powerful questions and listen actively. You will consider the processes associated with resolving difficult situations where differences of opinion arise, how to measure success and provide constructive feedback. By the end of this course you should feel more confident in your ability to support colleagues and help them to become even better at what they do.
- Teacher: Ben Oakley
- Teacher: Alex Twitchen
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
Explore the personal skills that underpin so much work in sport and gyms. We often hear employers refer to the importance of these interpersonal relationships or ‘soft skills’ in sport and fitness, and in this unique course you’ll build valuable insights into understanding workplace communication, motivation and self-awareness and how this can increase your effectiveness and enhance how you work with others. All this is made possible by some unique film footage of coaches, trainers and instructors at work combined with engaging learning activities that accompany these case studies to benefit both your career and those you work with.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
In this free course, Forensic psychology, you will discover how psychology can help obtain evidence from eyewitnesses in police investigations and prevent miscarriages of justice.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
This free course investigates how scientific and management ideas contribute to success while also taking you on a journey through unique sporting case studies and insights that will change how you view and study sport. You will consider how the mind, the body, the environment and training techniques all contribute to optimum fitness.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
This free course, Understanding mental capacity, covers the principles and criteria underpinning the assessment of mental capacity and decision making in the UK.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
Examine the science behind nutrition, covering aspects of biology, chemistry and physics as well as giving some insight into healthier eating. Reading food labels, choosing healthier foods, hydrating appropriately and understanding how we taste food will allow you to be more informed about the choices you make about the food you eat.
Category: Health
Explore free online courses accredited for Continuing Professional Development (CPD) by the CPD Standards Office (CPD-SO). Build your professional skills, earn verified CPD points and showcase your achievements to employers or professional networks.
Category: Education & Development
This free course provides an introduction to school librarianship. The course is designed to develop learners’ confidence and skills in delivering a library service in schools. It could be of use to librarians with little or no knowledge as well as those with experience who are looking to upskill.
Category: Education & Development
This free course, Young children, the outdoors and nature, looks at the importance of babies and toddlers having opportunities to engage with rich outdoor environments.
Category: Education & Development
It is widely recognised that supporting children to become capable and engaged readers plays an important role in their future success. Reading empowers; it facilitates education and employment, and it enriches one’s personal life and growth. Learning to read is therefore a key goal of primary or elementary education, and high-quality literacy instruction is fundamental to any literacy curriculum. An effective literacy curriculum not only teaches children how to read, it also inspires them to want to read.
Developing the skill to read and the will to read are interrelated, however, this course focuses on the latter; it is an exploration of Reading for Pleasure and its significance for children’s lives and development. You will consider current research, debates and challenges that impact on children’s reading and gain knowledge and strategies to help you promote reader engagement across schools, homes and communities.
Developing the skill to read and the will to read are interrelated, however, this course focuses on the latter; it is an exploration of Reading for Pleasure and its significance for children’s lives and development. You will consider current research, debates and challenges that impact on children’s reading and gain knowledge and strategies to help you promote reader engagement across schools, homes and communities.
Category: Education & Development
This free course will
introduce you to the many ways of working with children in trouble with the
law. You will learn about the emergence of the youth justice system in England
and Wales and how it has changed over the years. A comparative approach provides
opportunities to learn about the approaches taken in Northern Ireland and
Scotland. You will explore topical issues surrounding young people and crime,
such as how rates of victimisation and offending vary, with particular
reference to the ways age, gender, race and social class shape young people’s
experience of crime.
introduce you to the many ways of working with children in trouble with the
law. You will learn about the emergence of the youth justice system in England
and Wales and how it has changed over the years. A comparative approach provides
opportunities to learn about the approaches taken in Northern Ireland and
Scotland. You will explore topical issues surrounding young people and crime,
such as how rates of victimisation and offending vary, with particular
reference to the ways age, gender, race and social class shape young people’s
experience of crime.
Category: Education & Development
This free course, Becoming an ethical researcher, explores the ethics of planning, carrying out and reporting research which involves human participants. It will sensitise you to issues that a researcher should consider to support ethical and well-justified decision-making. A wide variety of research scenarios will be used to stimulate individual reflection and discussion on the course forum, participation in which, together with successful completion of quizzes, will contribute to gaining a digital badge.
- Teacher: Deborah Cooper
- Teacher: Alison Fox
Category: Education & Development
Do you have a professional or personal interest
in the mental health issues affecting young children? Are you working with children or are you a parent or carer? This free course, Supporting children’s mental health and wellbeing, is designed to give insight into the factors that are contributing to our youngest citizens’ poor mental health; examining factors from a national and global perspective. By the end of the course you will have gained knowledge about strategies and interventions that will help you to understand how you can support children’s mental health and improve
their wellbeing.
in the mental health issues affecting young children? Are you working with children or are you a parent or carer? This free course, Supporting children’s mental health and wellbeing, is designed to give insight into the factors that are contributing to our youngest citizens’ poor mental health; examining factors from a national and global perspective. By the end of the course you will have gained knowledge about strategies and interventions that will help you to understand how you can support children’s mental health and improve
their wellbeing.
Category: Education & Development