Child Psychology

If you work with or aspire to work with children, then having a basic understanding of what drives them is important, especially if you’re an educator. This fascinating course will help you better understand the field of child psychology and teach you everything you’ll need to know, in order to improve your understanding of this exciting area of study.

Through 22 easy-to-follow modules, your enrolled team members will quickly be able to grasp the finer points of the key theories of this field. This online course will help them to understand how the mind changes from infancy to childhood, through adolescence and all the way through the teenage years into early adulthood.

What’s Covered in the Course?

If you or a team member choose to study this course, you can expect to cover the following:

• An introduction to the theories of prominent child psychologists and an understanding of how they were developed;

• The importance of Piaget’s theory of cognitive development;

• The psychological development of a child from infancy through to the teen years;

• The physical development from birth through to young adulthood will be studied

• The most important influences, including culture, in a child’s social development;

• The idea of emotional development and how a child evolves emotionally through adolescence;

• The importance that relationships play throughout childhood and how security, support and love are related;

• Self-esteem throughout childhood – when it’s considered healthy, when it can be unhealthy and how to build healthy self-esteem in toddlers;

• How to identify and deal with behavioural problems and what bad behaviour and conduct disorder is;

• An introduction to educational psychology, the study of psychology as it relates to education;

• Psychological methods for overcoming learning disabilities;

• How nutrition can impact a child’s psychological development, and why a healthy diet is so important;

• An explanation of how an individual changes physically, emotionally, behaviourally and cognitively, as they develop into adulthood.

What are the Benefits of the Course?

There are a range of benefits that any team members will gain, after completing this course. These include:

• Gaining valuable knowledge that can help to advance your career in psychology;

• The ability to study at the time and from the place that works best for you;

• Online support and access to the course materials 24/7;

• You can download the course materials onto virtually any device;

• Gaining an accredited certification for having successfully completed the course.

Modules

Module 1: Introduction to Child Psychology

To understand what you will learn in this course
To learn the definition of child psychology
To learn about the theories of child psychologists
To understand the importance of recognising abnormal behaviour

Module 2 : Child Development Research and Theories

To learn that different theories are used in child development research
To understand how each theory developed
To learn about the similarities and differences between important theories
To begin to understand which theories govern modern practices in child development

Module 3 : An Overview of Cognitive Development

To learn about the first cognitive development theories
To understand Piaget’s theory of cognitive development
To understand the Information-Processing theory
To learn about cognitive development in different life stages

Module 4 : Cognitive Development in the First Year

To learn more about Piaget’s sensorimotor stage
To learn about the sub-stages of the sensorimotor stage
To understand the concept of object permanence
To learn more about adaptation and equilibrium

Module 5 : Cognitive Development in the Toddler and Preschool Years

To learn about the cognitive abilities of toddlers and preschoolers
To understand Piaget’s Theory as it applies to toddlers and preschoolers
To learn about the preoperational stage of cognitive development
To learn about toddlers, preschoolers and memory

Module 6 : Cognitive Development in the Middle Years

To learn how children in the middle years think
To learn about Piaget’s concrete operational stage
To learn about how children’s thinking changes during the concrete operational stage
To learn about intelligence and testing intelligence

Module 7 : Cognitive Development and the Teenage Years

To learn about how cognitive development occurs in the teenage years
To understand how adults can support cognitive development
To understand how cognitive development changes from early to late adolescence
To learn what Piaget theorised about cognitive development

Module 8 : Genetics

To learn more about how genetics and environment work together in development
To learn about genes, chromosomes, and DNA
To understand how the environment might affect genetics
To learn about genetic abnormalities and their effect on development

Module 9 : The Nature/Nurture Debate

To learn about the history of the debate between nature and nurture
To learn about some of the science supporting the nature side
To learn about some of the science supporting the nurture side
To understand that there are discrepancies in both arguments

Module 10 : Physical Development

To learn about physical development from birth to two years old
To understand the physical changes that occur from two to six years old
To learn about what physical changes occur between the ages of seven to 11 years old
To understand physical growth from the ages of 12 to 19

Module 11 : Social Development

To learn about the major influences on a child’s social development
To understand when children begin to understand themselves
To learn how culture can affect a child’s social development
To understand how social value and social development is related

Module 12 : Emotional Development

To learn the definition of emotional development
To learn about the emotional development of a school-aged child
To learn about the emotional development during adolescence
To learn about regulating emotions

Module 13 : Intellectual Development

To learn about brain development and intelligence
To learn how to enhance intellectual development
To learn about various childhood intelligence concepts
To understand the intellectual development of children in middle childhood

Module 14 : Attachment and Relationship Building

To learn about the importance of a child’s early relationships
To understand who the child has their first relationships with
To learn about attachment theory
To understand the relationship between love and support and security

Module 15 : The Role of Separation in Child Development

To learn about the impact of separation and loss on child development in general
To learn about the impact of these things on child development at different ages
To understand how these effects change depending on the age of the child
To understand how to minimise these effects

Module 16 : Language and Communication

To learn about the language milestones from birth through 12 months
To learn about the language milestones from age one to two
To learn about the language milestones from age three to four
To learn about the language milestones from age four to five

Module 17 : Self-Esteem and Confidence

To learn what self-esteem and confidence is
To understand the signs of healthy and unhealthy self-esteem
To learn about methods that improve self-esteem and confidence in children
To learn about building self-esteem in toddlers

Module 18 : Behavioural Problems

To learn about the signs of behavioural problems
To understand bad behaviour and conduct disorder
To learn about the long-term effects of behavioural problems and conduct disorder
To understand the diagnosis of conduct disorder and behaviour issues

Module 19 : Gender Roles and Differences

To learn the difference between sex and gender
To understand how gender identity develops
To learn how children generally express their gender
To understand the concept of non-conforming to gender or being transgender

Module 20 : Education: Schooling, Learning Difficulties and High Intelligence

To learn about the branch of the psychology field called educational psychology
To understand the history of educational psychology
To learn about different perspectives of educational philosophy
To learn about how educational psychology approaches learning difficulties

Module 21 : Health and Nutrition in a Child’s Development

To learn about the research that supports health and nutrition in childhood development
To learn about what nutrition is
To learn why proper nutrition is important
To learn about the negative and positive effects of nutrition

Module 22 : Developing Into Adulthood

To understand physical development into adulthood
To understand how cognitive changes develop into adulthood
To learn about the emotional development into adulthood
To understand about behavioural development as an adult