Certificate In Applied Developmental Psychology

CERTIFICATE IN APPLIED DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY What is psychology?
You might not be sure about what exactly psychology is. Psychology is a science. It is the study of human and animal behaviour. Some say the study of mind or the brain. Whilst others consider it to be the study of personality. Psychology considers what motivates people to do what they do.
This course is concerned with how a person develops throughout their childhood. Maternal Behaviour and Attachment is just one interesting topic covered in the Child Development course.
Maternal Behaviour and Attachment Formation

Many mothers would no doubt like to know exactly what maternal actions and attitudes willelicit a healthy degree of attachment in their children. Psychologists know that the failure to develop a healthy attachment to the caregiver can lead to all sorts of problems; amongst others it can lead to cognitive deficiencies, delinquency and anti social behaviour
The type of relationship we develop as an infant can continue to affect our relationships in the future. Many of the most successful psychotherapists base their methods of counselling on this belief. People become stuck in the same pattern of relating to others. Often this pattern was established in very early childhood, before our conscious memory.
COURSE STRUCTURE
It consists of 6 modules (click on each module for detailed information)
Introduction Psychology
There are seven lessons in this course, as follows:

1. The nature and scope of Psychology
2. Neurological basis of behaviour
3. Environmental effects on behaviour
4. Consciousness and perception
5. Personality
6. Psychological development
7. Needs, drives and motivation

Child Psychology
There are 12 lessons as follows:

1. Introduction to Child Psychology
2. The Newborn Infant
3. States and Senses of the Infant
4. Learning
5. Emotions and Socialisation
6. Cognitive Development
7. Language Development
8. Intelligence
9. Socialisation - Part A
10. Morality
11. Sexuality
12. Socialisation - Part B

Educational Psychology
Seven lessons as follows:

1. Introduction -Development & Learning Theory
2. Behavioural Learning
3. Information Processing
4. Memory Retention & Loss
5. Individual Needs
6. Constructivist Learning
7. Motivation

Developmental Psychology
The course is divided into ten lessons as follows:

1. Introduction - Theoretical approaches and key concepts
2. Early childhood - cognitive & social development in the first 6 years
3. Middle childhood - cognitive, moral & social development in the school years
4. Challenges of middle childhood
5. Adolescence - cognitive, moral and social development
6. Challenges of adolescence
7. Adulthood - cognitive and psychosocial development in early and middle adulthood
8. Challenges of adulthood
9. Late adulthood - cognitive and psychosocial changes in the elderly
10. Challenges of late adulthood

Career Counselling
The course contains ten lessons, as follows:

1. Introduction - Scope and Nature of Careers Counselling
2. Nature of Careers - What is a career, what makes it successful
3. Careers Advice Resources - Brochures, Publications, Web Sites
4. Services - Where can people get help (Social Services, Work Experience, Education)
5. Developing Counselling Skills
6. Conducting a Counselling Session
7. Counselling Students and School Leavers
8. Counselling Adults (inexperienced or facing career change)
9. Job Prospecting - How to find work...resumes, etc
10. Nurturing and Growing a career once it has started

Relationships and Communications Counselling
The course is divided into seven lessons as follows:

1. Communication in emerging relationships
2. Communication behaviour and needs
3. Communication and the environment
4. Communication patterns in relationships
5. Maintaining relationships
6. Relationship breakdown
7. Evaluation of communication techniques within relationships This is ONLY available as a written correspondence course.