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Introduction to adolescent mental health

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

Exploring learning disabilities: supporting belonging

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.

Category: 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.

Category: Health

The science of nutrition and healthy eating

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

Bullying and Manipulation: Join the Resistance

When a person is being bullied, who’s at fault - the bully, the enablers, or the bystanders? This interactive explores bullying at work, school and even on Twitter at the hands of Donald Trump.

Category: Psychology

Being a boy

What is life like for boys today? In what follows, we explore aspects of contemporary boyhood, drawing on research conducted at The Open University and elsewhere.

Category: Social Care & Social Work

Dying Matters Awareness Week

Learn more about death and dying during this year's Dying Matters Awareness Week: 8th-14th May with our FREE courses, videos and interactives.

Category: Social Care & Social Work

An introduction to death, dying and grief

Explore interesting and challenging ideas around death, dying and grief. This free course, An introduction to death, dying and grief, invites you to think more deeply about death and dying and encourages you to think about it in different ways. This course will introduce you to different perspectives on death; ethical issues related to dying and end-of-life care; as well as expressions of grief.

Please note that this course includes video about people talking personally about their experiences in relation to death and dying. If you have been affected by the issues in these videos, there are resources included in the course for further information and support.

Category: Social Care & Social Work

An invisible group: Young people’s experiences of living with a loved one who is seriously ill

Potentially a million children and young people in the UK live with a parent or caregiver who has a longstanding illness. What's the impact on them and what help is available?

Category: Young People's Health

Young people’s wellbeing

What do we mean by 'wellbeing' for young people? How is it shaped by social differences and inequalities, and how can we improve young people's mental and physical health? This free course, Young people's wellbeing, will examine the range of factors affecting young people's wellbeing, such as obesity, binge drinking, depression and behavioural problems.

Category: Young People's Health

Harry Potter and death and bereavement

What does the Harry Potter series have in common with our Muggle world when it comes to death and bereavement? Dr Sam Murphy explores.

Category: Public Health

Exercise and mental health

Each year thousands of pounds are spent on medications to treat conditions such as anxiety and depression. These medications often have negative side effects. Exercise is an alternative treatment that is low cost and has few side effects. In this free course, Exercise and mental health, we will look at the links between exercise and improved mental health and psychological well-being. This will include consideration of the role of exercise in combating stress, anxiety and depression, and in enhancing mood.

Category: Sport & Fitness

Wellbeing and mental health collection

The mental health and wellbeing collection (Wales) provides a hub of free, bilingual resources that aim to promote positive wellbeing and support good mental health.

Category: Mental Health

Stress and anxiety in the digital age: the dark side of technology

What is it about new technology that is making many of us anxious and stressed? Dr Gini Harrison and Dr Mathijs Lucassen explore the top five stressors:

Category: Mental Health

Principles and practices of peace education

Principles and practices of peace education explores how peace might be built in everyday classroom practice. It can be used as individual study or as a basis for CPD with a larger group. It introduces layers of peace education for children and young people, including inner-peace and wellbeing; interpersonal peace through positive relationships and constructive approaches to conflict; and critical thinking about the world beyond the classroom.

The course introduces theories and practice of peace education from across the UK and beyond. As well as simple, practical ideas for use in the classroom, it offers links to materials for further study and curriculum planning. This course will also be relevant for people working with children and young people in informal and community settings.

Category: Education & Development

Resources for schools

Keep on top of your learning with these free resources from The Open University, created for secondary school age students across the UK.

Category: Education & Development

Anti-Bullying Week

Anti-Bullying Week 2025 runs from Monday 10th - Friday 15th November. As ever, OpenLearn is proud to support this event, so we've pulled together some of our FREE resources on the different types of bullying and manipulation to help support those in need, not just on these special days but all year round...

Category: Education & Development

Supporting children's mental health and wellbeing

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.

Category: Education & Development

Children and young people: food and food marketing

The following video explores the concepts covered in this course.

Category: Education & Development

Seeing the bigger picture: exploring the stories of children from migrant backgrounds

Photography is one way of listening to children’s voices and discovering their multifaceted lives. EdD student Karen Horsley describes her research on the stories and experiences of young children whose families have migrated to the UK made visible through documentary photography.

Category: Education

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