Child Psychology Certification Level 3

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.