This course is designed to help those who're not used to online learning platforms to get an idea about how to do basic things on the site as well as how to do the activities in the courses here.

This course has been developed for everyone in response to the recent global pandemic. There is information about how to avoid catching/spreading the virus, what immediate feelings you may have and common reactions, managing your mental health at this time, managing isolation and social distancing, self-care, supporting children and young people and some accesible information.

This course has been written for children aged 7-12 as a way of learning about the global pandemic.

You will learn helpful information about what the new virus is, how to stay healthy and do your best not to pass it on, how you might feel about it, things to do at home and how to help yourself.

This course has been designed by specialist occupational therapists. The idea for the course was sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic and how it has impacted on peoples’ lives across the world. The course focuses on tips to maintaining occupational balance during these uncertain times and will guide you through the landscape of how an understanding of occupation and how you can refine or learn new skills/knowledge as applied to your life right now. This will help your ability to better achieve occupational balance, make positive changes, and meet your needs and the needs of people around you.

This course provides an overview of the 5 factors, known as CHIME, that both service users and professionals have created together to improve personal wellbeing.

The Spirituality and Recovery course will give you the opportunity to learn about spirituality and the role it can play in mental health recovery. This course does not promote any particular belief system or religion. Rather, it will give you the chance to explore what spirituality means to you and how you can develop your own sense of spirituality.

There are five topics in this course, these are:

• Introduction to Spirituality and Recovery
• Spiritual Explorations
• The Spirituality Flower
• Unusual Experiences
• Spiritual Practices and Resources

This course considers how a mental health crisis may present itself and what you can do to help yourself cope with a crisis and looks at ways you can prepare yourself and develop resilience in the longer term, as well as how to respond and support someone who is experiencing a crisis right now.

Formulation is about gathering relevant information to help make sense of experiences in a highly personalised way. This course provides an overview of formulation approaches used in mental health treatment and is aimed at those living with mental health difficulties and those who live with or look after them, members of the public and staff.

This course explores what stress is, the physical and psychological impact of the stress response, the stress vulnerability bucket model, basic coping theory, everyday ways of coping, how genetics and the environment influence our vulnerability to stress and what can help when dealing with stress.

This course explores the role art and museums can have on mental wellbeing and recovery. There is emerging evidence that suggests that accessing art and museums can have positive health and wellbeing outcomes for people, and that they play a role in helping people to stay well and recover faster, including mental health. The course considers how to get the most out of art and museums to support your wellbeing.

Running for Recovery explores the health and wellbeing benefits of running.

This course considers different types of loss and how it might make you feel. It explores the processes of dealing with loss and how you can help yourself or someone else. It also considers different cultural and religious perspectives on loss.

This course is for anyone who wants to know how to deal with other people effectively and get the most out of their relationships.

It explores the benefits of dealing with others effectively and considers some of the difficulties people experience when dealing with others.

The course looks at:

• The boundaries we have and the impact of diversity
• Empathy, listening skills and validation
• Conflict and how to be more assertive
• Professionals and shared decision making

This course offers an introduction to the Positive Behavioural Support model which is being used increasingly in mental health services.

Positive Behavioural Support can be used when someone's behaviour is challenging the people around them and affecting their quality of life.

This course explores how Positive Behavioural Support works, and considers how it might help you or someone you know or work with.

This course was developed by Stephen Davison, Lead Nurse, Positive and Safe team.

This course explores what diagnoses are, the classification systems used by professionals, the prevalence of several diagnoses and how experiences occur on a spectrum. Additionally, this course looks at the impact of receiving a diagnosis, the stigma surrounding diagnoses and some of the controversies of some diagnoses. Lastly, this course considers a few possibilities for alternatives to the current diagnostic systems.

This course explores social anxiety, looking at its causes, how it feels to experience it and how to manage it.

This course looks at how anxiety is a normal human response to everyday stresses and explains when anxiety can become a mental health issue. It explains what panic disorder is, what defines a panic attack, dealing with and preventing panic attacks and ways to cope with anxiety disorders including positive coping strategies, relaxation techniques, complementary therapies, psychological therapies and medication used to treat the symptoms of anxiety and panic.

This course looks at a brief history of medications used in mental health, a basic overview of the way neurotransmitters and synapses are involved in their efficacy, the various factors that influence whether or not medications are useful for a person's recovery, some potential adverse effects and contraindications, the alternatives to medications and why and how people may reduce or stop taking them.

This course is divided into the following sections:

Dealing with the Personal Impact of a Major Incident

This section is aimed at anyone who has been affected by a major incident or knows someone who has, either personally or professionally. It considers the personal impact of a major incident and explores what can help.

Adults Supporting Children after a Major Incident

This section is aimed at adults supporting children in either a personal or professional capacity. For example, this could be family, carers, school or health service staff. It considers how a major incident can affect children and what you can do to support them. It also explores understanding why it is sometimes necessary to seek more help and when to do so.

Children Dealing with the Impact of a Major Incident 

This section has age appropriate information which a child could read through by themselves or ideally with an adult. The section uses a story format to explore some of the issues that children exposed to a major incident experience. This is in addition to the main content that provides more factual information and includes some activities aimed at helping children express their thoughts and feelings.

Young People Dealing with the Impact of a Major Incident 

This section has information specific to this age group about the personal impact of a major incident, what can help, and why it may be necessary to seek more help sometimes.

Incident Preparedness

This section is aimed at professionals and organisations, identifying key aspects about how to plan and prepare prior to a major incident. It also aims to promote the resilience of survivors and responders directly or indirectly exposed to such incidents.

Community / Service level responses to trauma

This section provides a model identifying the priority tasks that need to be addressed following a major incident and also considers the impact and effectiveness for staff and survivors of various management styles.

Interviews with people who have experienced a major incident

This section has a collection of personal accounts with people who have experienced a major incident. Reading other people’s reflections while sometimes difficult, can deepen an individuals understanding of their own thoughts, feelings and behaviours and in this way may aid recovery.

This course explores what the Mental Health Act (1983) is and how it is used in relation to a persons journey from assessment and treatment through to discharge and aftercare. It also follows the story of Iris, a young woman who has experienced a mental health crisis that led to admission to hospital under the Act.

This online course is aimed at adults working with young people in primary and secondary schools in the UK, including serving and trainee teachers, support staff and volunteers. This course gives you information on how to support a young person in school and where to go for further information.

This course looks at why to create an account, what the benefits can be, what information we need and why as well as information for those who are interested but are under 13 years old.

This course is for children who are 12 years old or less. It looks at what we mean when we talk about being healthy, how to help keep our feelings healthy as well as knowing our emotions (particularly big emotions) and how to manage them.

This course is for children under 12 years old. It will help you learn more about what resilience is and how to be more resilient.