Developmental Psychology Level 3 Certificate Course

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    Online

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    Different dates available

Developmental Psychology course online. Understand the relationship between age and behaviour. This course is aimed at people working with people of any age in a counselling, supporting, or teaching capacity. Understand how physiological and psychological changes over the lifespan affect human behaviour. Parents and carers will gain greater insight into issues that present particular challenges at different stages of the life span, especially from adolescence to old age. This accredited Level 3 course also sets the theoretical framework complementing the Child Psychology course.

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About this course

Explain the nature, scope and impact of developmental problems in children and adolescents.
Explain autism, including its diagnosis, and appropriate responses that may be made by family, friends, teachers, carers and practitioners.
Explain Asperger’s disorder, including its diagnosis and appropriate responses that may be made by family, friends, teachers, carers and practitioners
Explain a range of pervasive developmental disorders, including their diagnosis and appropriate responses that may be made by family, friends, teachers, carers and practitioners
Explain a range of attention-deficit and hyperactivity disorders, including diagnosis and appropriate responses that may be made by family, friends, teachers, carers and practitioners
Explain conduct disorders, including its diagnosis and appropriate responses that may be made by family, friends, teachers, carers and practitioners
Explain a range of learning disorders, including their diagnosis and appropriate responses that may be made by family, friends, teachers, carers and practitioners
Explain a range of communication disorders, including their diagnosis and appropriate responses that may be made by family, friends, teachers, carers and practitioners
Create and present a plan of support for a child with a specific condition.    

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Subjects

  • Moral
  • Depression
  • Psychology

Course programme

  1. Introduction
    • Theoretical approaches and key concepts
    • Lifelong growth, nature/nurture theories ...psychodynamic, behavioural, social cognitive, cognitive, lifespan
  2. Early childhood
    • Cognitive & social development in the first 6 years
    • Genetics, personality, cognition, recognition, memory, social relationships
  3. Middle childhood
    • Cognitive, moral & social development in the school years
    • Motor skills, cognitive and language development, relationships with family and peers, moral development
  4. Challenges of middle childhood
    • School and learning, sense of self, achievement, peer pressure, family breakup, grief and trauma
  5. Adolescence
    • Cognitive, moral and social development
    • Cognitive development, moral development, identity, relationships with family and peers
  6. Challenges of adolescence
    • Sexuality, peer groups, identity vs role confusion, trauma, depression, values and meaning
  7. Adulthood
    • Cognitive and psychosocial development in early and middle adulthood
    • Sexuality, parenthood. work and achievement, moral reasoning, gender roles, cultural perspectives, adult thinking
  8. Challenges of adulthood
    • Marriage and divorce, grief, depression, parenting, dealing with change
  9. Late adulthood
    • Cognitive and psychosocial changes in the elderly
    • Intelligence, learning and age, physiological influences, cognitive abilities, personality changes, relationships
  10. Challenges of late adulthood
    • Loss, mourning, depression and elderly suicide, aging brain ... dementia etc, integrity vs despair, loss of independence.

Developmental Psychology Level 3 Certificate Course

Price on request