Child Psychology

Child Psychology
Supported Home Study
Course Summary

Reach Your Potential in Child Psychology
What career could be more rewarding than helping children?

If children are a central part of your life, either personally or professionally - you will find this child psychology distance learning course invaluable. In fact it's an eye-opening experience giving you a new perspective on how to guide and help children on the often bumpy road towards adulthood.

On the distance learning course you will find out about child development, what contributes to their personalities and problems and what they need to cope and grow. The wealth of information covered is relevant to a wide range of people: parents, teachers, social workers, health visitors or those who hope to work as counsellors one day. And it is written at a level which makes it accessible to all. So if you work with, or want to work with children or if you simply have a child in your care, then this NCFE accredited, distance learning course will be an invaluable resource.

Child Psychology Course Outline

If you want a career in Child Psychology, our tutor supported open distance learning Child Psychology course provides the necessary knowledge, skills and qualification without disrupting your current lifestyle.

Prospects for Personhood

• Child development: the mystery
• Themes in child and adolescent development
• Research in child development
• Ethical considerations in research
• Careers in working with children
• Piaget's theory of cognitive development
• The information processing approach
• Freud's psycho-analytic theory
• Erickson's psycho-social theory
• Social learning theories
• Genetics and development
• Behavioural traits and psychotherapy
• Genetics and diseases
• Prenatal development
• Technology, pregnancy and birth

Infancy, Toddlerhood and Early Childhood

• How the infant experiences the world
• Infant health
• Growth and motor development
• Parenting choices
• Atypical development: early intervention
• Piaget's theory of sensorimotor development
• Parents and cognitive development
• The development of language
• How children learn language
• Emotional development
• Attachment: behaviour, quality and concerns
• The father-child relationship
• Working mother versus full-time homemaker
• Daycare attachment
• Physical development in the pre-school years
• Nutrition and children's health
• Pre-operational stage and challenges to Piaget's view
• The pre-schooler's environment: home, TV, pre-school
• Self-concept in the pre-school years
• Sibling relationships
• Gender role acquisition
• Child abuse

Middle Childhood and Adolescence

• Physical development in middle childhood
• The stage of concrete operations
• Language development
• Success in school
• Boys, girls and the school experience
• Bilingual children in school
• Children with special needs
• The total child in school
• Self-concept and self-esteem
• The changing family
• Moral development
• Pro-social and anti-social behaviour
• Puberty and adolescence
• The health of teenagers today
• Physical activity and nutrition
• Eating disorders
• Cognitive advances in adolescence
• Morals and values in adolescence
• Sexual expression
• In search of an adolescent identity
• Emotional and behavioural autonomy
• Secondary school today
• Career choices
• Drug abuse and violence