Developmental Psychology - Endorsed Certificate Course (TQUK - Training Qualifications UK)

Developmental Psychology Level 3 Online Course.100 Hours Endorsed Certificate Course (TQUK - Training Qualifications UK).

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.

This course is accredited by ACCPH and allows you to join as a professional member after completion. Membership allows you to add the letters MACCPH after your name (post-nominals).

This ADL course has also been accredited by the CMA - The Complimentary Medical Association. Upon graduation, students will be eligible to apply for CMA Membership. CMA Members in all categories are recognised as the elite in their field.

Benefits of an ADL Endorsed Course?

Endorsed courses are skills based. They have been evaluated and approved by an independent awarding body such as Training Qualifications UK (TQUK).

What makes ADL’s Endorsed courses different?

• Flexible Self-Paced Learning– adjust your learning around your home and work commitments
• Start and Finish at any time
• Courses globally and industry relevant
• Practical Component at the end of most lessons.

Allocated your own tutor relevant to your subject. You can have as little or as much contact as you like with your tutor. They are there to support you all the way through.

This course is endorsed by TQUK -Training Qualifications UK, an OFQUAL awarding body.

Lesson Structure: Developmental Psychology BPS210

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.

Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the academy, marked by the academy's tutors and returned to you with feedback, any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.

Psychology Students, Social Care Workers, Youth Psychologists, Counsellors, Teachers

A pc or laptop with internet connection.

Developmental psychologists work in a variety of settings, including academia, government agencies, health care facilities and schools.

Those working in colleges and universities tend to focus primarily on research or teaching. Others working in applied settings, such as health care facilities or clinics, help to assess, evaluate and treat people living with developmental disabilities.

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