Study at home learning to work in Child Psychology.
If you want a career in Child Psychology, our tutor supported open distance learning Child Psychology course provides the necessary knowledge, skills and qualification without disrupting your current lifestyle.
The DCA Home Learning Child Psychology course provides training in the core skills needed to embark on a rewarding career in Child Psychology. The DCA supported self-study Child Psychology course is specially designed, allowing you to learn the skills of Child Psychology through flexible and cost-effective home study at your own time and pace.
With the DCA Home Learning Child Psychology course, online study resources and a personal tutor are available to guide you throughout the course, and your Student Advisor is a Freephone call away. What's more, because the distance learning Child Psychology course is so comprehensive, no prior knowledge or skills are required. The DCA Child Psychology course provides an entry level diploma as proof of your competence and skills.
If you'd like to earn more money and enjoy working in Child Psychology, the DCA home study course is the ideal distance learning training course for you.
Prospects for Personhood
Child development: the mystery
Themes in child and adolescent development
Research in child development
Ethical considerations in research
Careers in working with children
Piagets theory of cognitive development
The information processing approach
Freuds psycho-analytic theory
Ericksons psycho-social theory
Social learning theories
Genetics and development
Behavioural traits and psychotherapy
Genetics and diseases
Prenatal development
Technology, pregnancy and birth
Infancy, Toddlerhood and Early Childhood
How the infant experiences the world
Infant health
Growth and motor development
Parenting choices
Atypical development: early intervention
Piagets theory of sensorimotor development
Parents and cognitive development
The development of language
How children learn language
Emotional development
Attachment: behaviour, quality and concerns
The father-child relationship
Working mother versus full-time homemaker
Daycare attachment
Physical development in the pre-school years
Nutrition and childrens health
Pre-operational stage and challenges to Piagets view
The pre-schoolers environment: home, TV, pre-school
Self-concept in the pre-school years
Sibling relationships
Gender role acquisition
Child abuse
Middle Childhood and Adolescence
Physical development in middle childhood
The stage of concrete operations
Language development
Success in school
Boys, girls and the school experience
Bilingual children in school
Children with special needs
The total child in school
Self-concept and self-esteem
The changing family
Moral development
Pro-social and anti-social behaviour
Puberty and adolescence
The health of teenagers today
Physical activity and nutrition
Eating disorders
Cognitive advances in adolescence
Morals and values in adolescence
Sexual expression
In search of an adolescent identity
Emotional and behavioural autonomy
Secondary school today
Career choices
Drug abuse and violence |
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| "I find distance learning particularly useful as I have three young children at home and I can fit my studying around them." — L Stevenson |
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| I found this course so interesting and I would like to continue my studies. — Joanna Podsiadlo |
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