Child Psychology

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  • Type

    Course

  • Methodology

    Distance Learning

  • Duration

    9 Months

  • Start date

    Different dates available

This distance learning course will help give you the skills that will enable you to help a child reach its true potential and will provide you with an insight into the development of children. The course will also help you to understand how our behaviour can affect a child, which should in turn make you a better, more caring and effective parent or childminder.

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Course programme

Overview
Get your own Diploma in Child Psychology

Some understanding of the development process in children is vital for satisfactory relationships to grow. Modern psychological research has provided us with a wealth of practical information relevant to child rearing. By understanding how this knowledge can be applied to children in your care, you can provide the best possible environment for their balanced growth and development.

Course Contents

Remember, You can complete this Child Psychology course within 6 to 9 months of enrolling. So take your first step by contacting us today !

Detailed Content

Unit 1: How to start the course

  • Introduction to psychology
  • Applications of psychology
  • Psychology in everyday use

Unit 2: Only crazies study psychology...?

  • Growth/Development/Maturation
  • Intelligence/Perception/Socialisation
  • Adjustment and Maladjustment

Unit 3: Is child psychology relevant to me?

  • Maturity
  • Families
  • Successful parental styles
  • Unsuccessful parental styles

Unit 4: Child psychology in general

  • Theories of childhood development
  • Attachment and separation
  • Physical differences: a view from the nursery

Unit 5: Starting off.....

  • Evolutionary background
  • Pre-natal influences
  • Neo-natal psychology
  • Social factors in infant development

Unit 6: Children growing up

  • Language development
  • Perceptual development
  • Psychosexual development
  • Conscience development (values)
  • School adjustment
  • Teacher characteristics and student progress

Unit 7: More about personality

  • Defence mechanism (emotional reactions)
  • The tests that rate intelligence
  • Learning in children
  • Creativity and children
  • Effective approaches to discipline
  • Psychosexual development

Unit 8: When is a problem really a problem?

  • The facts of life
  • A true/false quiz on the sexes
  • Emotional development
  • Disorders in children's development
  • Aspects to bed-wetting to keep in mind

Unit 9: Physical Illness in Children

  • The psychology of disability
  • Treatment/training for mental disability
  • Educational underachievement
  • The variability of children's behaviour
  • Therapy with children
  • Communicating with children

Unit 10: Help! I've got a problem!

  • Parenthood - fulfillment or frustration?
  • Some common sources of family stress
  • The parent / child inventory
  • How problems start
  • The problem child
  • Children as a cause of stress

Unit 11: Looking back to go ahead

  • Women's place
  • What kind of parent are you?
  • TV and children
  • Children and changing lifestyles

Unit 12: Putting it all together

  • Sharing skills
  • A philosophy of child-rearing
  • Child rearing - a matter of personal choice?

Delivery Method:
1. Correspondence
2. Online

Private Tutor: Yes

Duration: 6 to 9 months

Additional information

Payment options: Regular price: £655 Easy Instalment Plan: 6 monthly payments - £125, total fee - £750

Child Psychology

Price on request