Course Information
Registration period
Year-round Recruitment
Course Level
Study Mode
Duration
14 Hour(s) 7 Minute(s)
Language
English
Rating
Course Overview
Depression as portrayed in cinema and theatre - 2025
This short, updated course (Feb 2025) covers the following:
1. The stress of your children leaving home
2. Missing someone you love
3. War and depression
4. The death of a spouse
5. Can watching a film make you depressed?
6. War (in films) and depression
7. Suicide and depression
8. What if a family member has depression?
9. Crosswords and depression
10. Conflict resolution
11. Homelessness and depression
Throughout the course, homework is set - with links to Youtube videos, news articles and journals to help you answer the questions. In most lectures a film ( in which the Instructor appears) is used to illustrate the points made. There are also several Case Studies for discussion.
The more you participate the more you will get out of this course.
Others say:
"life changing experience. your efforts are really appreciable for all and creating this course."
- Nisar Ali
"I think it is very interesting as it involves applying film to emotions."
- Tricia Bethel
"i am taking it for professional reasons. i hope to start at masters in counselling and psychotherapy for children, young adults and families in sept 2019. i hope this course will give me a taste of some of the issues i will learn about."
Malka Gluck
So - Key Points to the Approach of this course
Three stages:
1. A topic is outlined
2. A film/film clip is included that illustrates some of the points made
3. You are then set homework/further research.
Do all that and you'll really enjoy the course - and get the Oxford Diploma!
Course Content
- 26 section(s)
- 115 lecture(s)
- Section 1 General Introduction
- Section 2 March 2026 and beyond...
- Section 3 Ramadan
- Section 4 20 second introduction
- Section 5 2025/2026
- Section 6 The Oxford Diploma
- Section 7 Relax...let's take a walk......
- Section 8 A quick ten day course to reduce depression
- Section 9 Introduction
- Section 10 When your kids leave home
- Section 11 Missing someone you love
- Section 12 War and Depression
- Section 13 Death of a Spouse
- Section 14 Can watching a film make you depressed?
- Section 15 Depression and war films
- Section 16 Suicide and Depression
- Section 17 What if a family member has depression?
- Section 18 Crosswords and Depression
- Section 19 Creating your own world
- Section 20 Depression and Conflict Resolution
- Section 21 Homelessness and Depression
- Section 22 Conflict and Depression at work
- Section 23 Finally
- Section 24 Child Psychology
- Section 25 Deprression in a 10 year old
- Section 26 Depression...is depression always bad?
What You’ll Learn
- Recognise signs of depression and be able to evade it, How depression is linked to decluttering (clutter), Know how to help others avoid depression, The clutter-depression-anxiety cycle, How cinema visits reduce depression, The impact of horror films on depression, How the performing arts benefit mental health
Reviews
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RRichard E.
In three words: miraculous, meaningful and worthwhile. I will admit that I had completely different expectations from the course, yet this format with short films, discussions and home assignments assured me that it is an even more efficient method for a course to be taught online. I won't say anything new: if you want to be as excited about this course as me, you have to be involved in discussions, you have to do home assignments, moreover, you have to read additional articles regarding the specific topic. The structure of the lessons is well thought-out; a workbook is included to examine oneself through different activities to enhance mental well-being. Now I feel much more knowledgeable about the topic, I can also understand myself better. Mr. Sivewright (the instructor and author of the course) is willing to help if you have any questions, furthermore, he himself also engages in discussions, sometimes provokes to think of the topic from a different angle, to look for more hidden signs in the video. However, it is a pity that I was the only student who engaged in discussions (sometimes the overall silence was quite depressing), that was the only part which didn’t succeed as planned. Thank you for this course and possibility to broaden my horizon.
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SSanakaushar
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GGuled mohamed
This is course concerned everyone starts learning depression is your course also the instructor was so good
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LLeil xxx
this course has valuable information of course. but it's indeed very outdated.
