Support a child’s mental health and key developmental milestones by understanding their behavior and need for social connection.

Learn effective communication techniques for personal and professional interactions. This course focuses on verbal, nonverbal, and written communication skills.

Mental health is crucial for our overall well-being. Your studies will incorporate important information, providing an overview of mental health and the most common mental health disorders. Learn different stress management techniques, including the signs and symptoms of stress. This course also covers information on how to cope with anxiety in an effective way to live a better, happier, and healthier lifestyle.

Understand the science of addiction and discover psychological approaches to treatment and recovery. As a result of scientific research, we know that addiction is a disease that affects both the brain and behavior. These discoveries have impacted and improved our understanding of compulsive drug use, enabling us to respond effectively to the problem with scientifically supported psychological interventions. Treatment, recovery, and prevention of addictive behavior have become a global strategy. Guided by Dr. Anna Lembke, the medical director of Addiction Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine and leading activist in the opioid epidemic, the Psychology of Addiction and Recovery online short course from the Stanford Center for Health Education (SCHE), a part of Stanford Medicine, explores the complex relationship between doctors and patients, the science of addiction, and the barriers to successfully addressing drug addiction and dependence at a personal and systemic level. Over the course of six weeks, you’ll evaluate how medications, approaches to psychotherapy, and peer support can enhance recovery, and how scientific evidence can be used to establish innovative addiction treatments. You’ll also explore the neurobiological factors underlying addiction, and how these impact intervention and recovery efforts today.

Drug and alcohol intake have been linked to various medical disorders and are a leading cause of morbidity and premature death worldwide. Awareness can make a big difference in preventing drug and alcohol abuse. This course explores the roots of addictions, and their negative impact on a person's health and lifestyle. We also discuss alternative treatments and aftercare strategies for those who are seeking to build a new life. Enrol now!

The Children & Young People’s Workforce (QCF) - Level 2 Course is for students who want to work in the childcare sector. The course is suitable for anyone wishing to start a career in childcare and it provides a starting point to the formal qualifications required for working in this sector.

CACHE accredited “Childcare & Education” level 3 course is suitable for all students looking for an introduction to the childcare sector. The course provided in partnership with UK Distance Learning & Publishing is aimed at students looking to enter the early years and childcare sector.

To know a thing well, you should know its history. Unfortunately, the history of psychology is often obscure, and what is written in textbooks tends to be a simplified, if not distorted, version of events. To understand what really happened, we need to go back to the primary sources, and see what people thought, what they said, and who they argued with. In this course, we'll start by reading several foundational books and papers.

The therapy field has seen a recent shift from focusing on “What’s wrong with you?” to “What happened to you?”. In line with this has been an emergence of 4th wave therapy approaches, brief psychotherapies that include a somatic or body-based components. These all fall under the umbrella of ‘energy psychology’.

The heart of MBCT lies in becoming acquainted with the modes of mind that often characterize and contribute to mood disorders while simultaneously learning to develop a new relationship to them. Cultivating mindfulness offers possibilities and potential for living life in new ways; for learning new skills and wholly new ways of working with and befriending your mind.

Become certified in time-proven Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people increase their mental health and wellbeing. This unique Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Practitioner course will educate you in a comprehensive range of psychology-based teachings and applications that influence how people think, believe, and behave.

Understand the connection between physical and mental health, and improve your ability to identify symptoms and sources of help.

Emotional Intelligence is a set of emotional and social skills that collectively establish how well you perceive and express yourself, maintain social relationships and cope with challenges. It's not just a passing management fad, in fact, it is based on a great body of data, based on studies of tens of thousands of working people taken from a wide range of industries.

Whether you are thinking about learning how to overcome Anxiety and Shyness or you know/work with people who suffer from anxiety and want to help them overcome this issue, our overcome anxiety and shyness diploma can give you the insight, skills and knowledge you need to conquer anxiety and shyness.