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Menyelesaikan 3 Kursus Kesehatan Mental dalam Semalam di Open Learn The Open University
Oleh: Muhammad Farid Wajdi *)
BLOGGURU – Alhamdulillah, satu kesyukuran dan kebahagiaan tersendiri dapat mereguk nikmatnya menuntut ilmu dan pembelajaran tanpa batas. Semuanya ini dapat terwujud atas berkah waktu luang, kesempatan, dan kesehatan yang baik. Malam ini, Rabu (10/9/2025), saat berada di Warkop Gazebo, dekat dari Taman Musafir Pangkajene, seraya menikmati kopi dan candaan dari teman-teman jurnalis yang memang biasa nonkrong di tempat ini, penulis menyempatkan mengikuti 3 kursus terkait “Mental Health” (Kesehatan Mental) di situs OpenLearn, the Open University yang berpusat di Inggris, dengan kampus utama di Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, Inggris (United Kingdom).
The Open University ini sudah lama penulis akrabi pembelajaran jarak jauh yang ditawarkannya. Semua bersifat Free (gratis) di situs OpenLearn, termasuk sertifikat tanda penyelesaian kursus yang disebut “Statement of Participation”.
Tiga Kursus yang penulis selesaikan malam ini, Rabu (10/9/2025) adalah sebagai berikut (lengkap dengan deskripsi kursusnya dalam Bahasa Inggris):
In this free course, Mental health in society, you will explore and critically reflect on mental health. You will explore the relationship between the lived experiences of individuals, and the society and environment in which they live. Different perspectives, approaches and models of understanding and critiquing mental health will be explored as well as a chance to develop skills in taking notes online.
This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course K243 Critical perspectives on mental health in society.
Course learning outcomes:
After studying this course, you should be able to:
- begin to explore the different perspectives about mental health, including how the use of language reflects these perspectives
- briefly consider the historical context of mental health in England in Wales
- develop online note-taking skills.
Lihat: Statement of Participation DISINI: K243_1_statement
2. Child mental health: is it in crisis?
There is much discussion about the issue of children and young people’s mental health problems in the media, and we often hear this issue referred to as a ‘crisis’. But what does the evidence say? Are rates of mental health problems rising? In this free course, Child mental health: is it in crisis?, you will explore these important questions as well as delving into a case study of a young person with anxiety who is refusing to go to school, which is based on the real-life experiences of a service user of a child and adolescent mental health service (CAMHS).
This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course K119 Wellbeing across the lifecourse.
Course learning outcomes:
After studying this course, you should be able to:
- explain what the evidence says about whether child mental health is in crisis in the UK
- apply the ethical concepts of autonomy and paternalism to the example of school refusal
- describe how professionals and others assess children and young people with commonly occurring mental health problems.
Lihat: Statement of Participation DISINI: K119_1_statement
Although being at work during periods of mental illness can be difficult for those with mental health problems, most people with these difficulties could take paid employment if it were not for numerous barriers in the workplace and the wider community (Centre for Mental Health, 2013). In this free course, Work and mental health, you will look at some of the ways in which employment affects mental health and what can be done to support people in finding and keeping work.
This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course K240 Mental health and community.
Course learning outcomes:
After studying this course, you should be able to:
- explain how the experience of mental health problems affect, and are affected by, employment
- understand how the recovery model can be used to support people with mental problems to return to work
- explain what can be done to reduce the barriers to employment for people with mental health problems.
Lihat: Statement of Participation DISINI: K240_1_statement
Demikian sedikit catatan dari penulis sebagai pengingat kegiatan yang telah diikuti. Insya Allah, pada kesempatan lain, penulis akan mengulas konten daripada ketiga kursus kesehatan mental tersebut diatas. Semoga bermanfaat adanya. Barakallahu fiikum. (*)
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