Social work engages with people across the life course, and practitioners often work with groups of people at different stages of life. Developing a thorough understanding of human growth and development (HGD) to encompass the whole life course is therefore a central element of social work education and practice.

Samples of material used in a ten-week module on human growth and mental health on the qualifying social work programme

a resource for use in teaching the beginnings of human development, together with an accompanying narrative of the journey into making the resource an OER