Child Psychology: Advanced level

Learning will be practical, theory and action-focused, with students testing out theory and knowledge within their own current or previous organisational contexts and experience and seeking out actionable knowledge in response to current problems they face.

Students will have the opportunity to develop knowledge, skills and insight in the following areas:

Module 1:Child Psychology:Babies from birth to one year

Lesson 1:The importance of bonding’ (aim: to be able to identify the importance of bonding)

Lesson 2:'The Social and Emotional development: from birth to 1 yr’ (aim: to recognise the social and emotional development of babies from birth through to the age of one years old)

Lesson 3:‘The Innate Reflexes of Newborn Babies’ (aim: to develop an awareness of the innate reflexes of new born babies)

Lesson 4:‘The Benefits of Testing at ‘Milestones’’ (aim: to understand the importance of testing at ‘milestones’ and its benefits)

Module 2 :Child Psychology: Stages and Sequences of Social and Emotional Development

Lesson 5:‘The Importance of Social and Emotional Development’ (aim: to understand the importance of social and emotional development)

Lesson 6:‘The Ages and Stages that Children go through’ (aim: to have awareness of the ages and stages that children go through)

Lesson 7:‘The Main theories in Developmental Psychology’ (aim: To have knowledge of the three main theories in developmental psychology)

Lesson 8 :‘The Importance of Positive Role Models’ (aim: To have a theoretical knowledge of the need to provide good role models for the child)

Lesson 9 :‘The barriers to Achieving the ‘Milestones’ (aim: to recognise some of the barriers to babies and children achieving their milestones)

Lesson 10:‘The importance of unconditional love) (aim: to understand the importance of unconditional love in developmental psychology)

Module 3:Child Psychology:Language and Linguistic Skills Development

Lesson 11 :‘Forms of communication’ (aim: to identify the many forms of communication)

Lesson 12: ‘What is ‘pre-linguistic’’ (aim: to define the term pre-linguistic)

Lesson 13 :‘The Active and the Passive Communication’ (aim: to understand the difference between active and passive communication)

Lesson 14 :‘The Importance of Opportunities in Development of the Skills’ (aim: to recognise the importance of providing children with opportunities to develop their skills)

Lesson 15 :‘The Importance of Body Language’ (aim: to evaluate the importance of body language between the children and their caregivers)

Module 4:Child Psychology:Cognitive Development

Lesson 16 :‘The Importance of Cognitive Development’ (aim: To recognise the importance of cognitive development and ‘milestones’)

Lesson 17 :‘The Main Psychological Theories in Cognitive Development’ (aim: to become aware of some of the main psychological theories in cognitive development)

Lesson 18 :‘The Appropriate Opportunities for Cognitive Development’ (aim: To understand the need for babies and children to have appropriate opportunities and experience to develop their intellectual ability)

Lesson 19:‘The Unconscious Mind: Id, Ego and Superego. Psychoanalytical Theory of Development’ (aim: To gain knowledge of the unconscious mind including the id, the ego and the superego, and to understand the Freud’s theory of child’s development)