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Overview
What causes mental distress and what can be done about it? How is health and social care support, which is increasingly delivered at local level, affected by lay and professional perceptions of mental health and illness?
This Mental Health And Community at The Open University UK examines how aspects of the external environment – in particular social, environmental, economic and political factors – shape and constrain our understandings and experiences of mental health and distress.
You will learn
This module provides you with insight into the contemporary context in which mental health care takes place and will help you to understand the issues faced by service users and service providers within this context. Specifically, the module encourages you to:- develop knowledge and understanding of how the experience of mental health problems affects and is affected by living within a community
- recognise the value and limitations of accounts of personal experience of mental distress and of different responses to it
- explore the impact of service users’ experiences on mental health policy and practice.
Programme Structure
This module comprises four study blocks:- Block 1 introduces the notion that there are very different views about what constitutes mental health distress and considers the role of the external environment – in particular social, environmental, economic and political factors – in shaping these views.
- Block 2 looks at the way in which families, in their many forms, may experience and/or contribute to mental health and distress. The impact of ‘place’ and community, including social networks, on mental wellbeing, and the different types of ‘everyday’ support (for example that provided by friends, relatives and neighbours), are explored.
- Block 3 considers the influence of a range of societal factors that impact on mental health and distress.
- Block 4 explores a range of economic and political factors that affect mental wellbeing.
Key information
Duration
- Part-time
- 8 months
Start dates & application deadlines
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Language
English
Credits
60 alternative credits
Delivered
Online
Disciplines
Psychology Clinical Psychology Counselling Psychology View 142 other Short Courses in Psychology in United KingdomAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Other requirements
General requirements
- This is an OU level 2 module and you need to have the study skills required for both higher education and distance learning, obtained either through OU level 1 study or from equivalent study elsewhere. Our OU level 1 modules Introducing health and social care (K102) and/or Perspectives in health and social care (K118) would be ideal preparation. However, you don’t need any prior knowledge as the study material for this module is designed to be accessible if you are new to this subject.
Tuition Fee
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International
3736 GBP/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 3736 GBP for the full programme during 8 months. -
National
3736 GBP/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 3736 GBP for the full programme during 8 months.
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