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Child Psychology course

Course Contents

Remember, you can complete this Child Psychology course within 12 months of enrolling. So take your first step by contacting us today !


Detailed Content

How to start the course

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

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Only crazies study psychology...?

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

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Is child psychology relevant to me?

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

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Child psychology in general

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

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Starting off.....

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

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Children growing up

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

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More about personality

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

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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

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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

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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

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Looking back to go ahead

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

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Putting it all together

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

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