Child And Youth Counselling Level 5 Diploma

    Identify key concepts and issues in child psychology
    Understand theories on the psychology of the newborn infant
    Explain the different types of sense discrimination that babies develop
    Identify how children learn and influences on learning
    Discuss theories of emotion and their basis in child behaviour
    Explain how children develop cognitively
    Explain how children develop language
    Explain influences on the development of intelligence in a child
    Explain personal aspects of socialisation
    Explain factors affecting the development of morality in children
    Explain the development of sexuality within children
    Explain the impact of schooling and family structures on personality development Lesson Structure: Child Psychology BPS104Introduction to Child Psychology
Levels of development, nature or nurture, isolating hereditary
characteristics, cause versus correlation, continuity versus discontinuity,
cross sectional and longitudinal studies, reliability of verbal reports
 
The Newborn Infant
The Interactionist approach, range of reaction, niche picking,
temperament stimulus seeking, emotional disturbances during pregnancy
 
States and Senses of the Infant
Sensory discrimination, infant states (sleep, inactivity, waking, crying etc),
why psychologists are concerned with defining and describing infant states,
habituation, crying, soothing a distressed baby, sensory discrimination,
depth perception, oral sensitivity
 
Learning
Habituation, vicarious learning, classical conditioning, operant conditioning,
reinforcement, the importance of learning control, etc
 
Emotions and Socialisation
Producing and recognising emotional expression, smiling, biological explanation,
perceptual recognition, mother-child Attachment, Freudian approach, Bowlby's approach,
Social Learning approach, Harlow's approach, role of cognition in attachment formation, day care
 
Cognitive Development