Challenging ideas in mental health

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Challenging ideas in mental health provided by OpenLearn is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 8 hours worth of material. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from OpenLearn. The course is taught in Englishand is Free Certificate. Visit the course page at OpenLearn for detailed price information.

Overview
  • Take a new and different look at mental health. This free course, Challenging ideas in mental health, invites you to think differently about life's dilemmas by taking account of the views of all ...

Syllabus
    • Introduction
    • Learning outcomes
    • 1 Boundaries of explanation
    • 1 Boundaries of explanation
    • 1.1 Boundaries of exclusion
    • 1.1.1 Boundaries and terminology
    • 1.1.2 Boundaries of difference
    • 1.1.3 Boundaries of ‘normality’
    • 1.2 Ways of viewing mental distress
    • 2 Whose risk is it anyway?
    • 2 Whose risk is it anyway?
    • 2.1 What is risk?
    • 2.2 Community care, fear and the ‘high-risk’ service user
    • 3 The business of madness
    • 3 The business of madness
    • 3.1 Mental health as business: introducing the debate
    • 3.2 Mental health as business: the profit motive
    • 3.2.1 A conflict of interest
    • 3.3 Pharmaceuticals for mental health: a brief history
    • 3.4 Benzodiazepine tranquillisers, Prozac and the SSRIs
    • Conclusion
    • Sources of help
    • References
    • Acknowledgements