(Advanced) Child Psychology Certificate Crash Course

Explore child psychology as the study of children's development from infancy to adolescence. Understand milestones, behavioural patterns, social skills, emotional regulation, and the role of cognitive and socio-cultural factors.

Explore the nature versus nurture debate in child development and outline the role of a child psychologist across settings, assessments, and therapeutic interventions.

Explore the nature versus nurture debate, weighing genetic predispositions against environment, and outline attachment theory and Freud’s psychosexual development stages from oral to genital.

Explore Piaget's cognitive developmental theory, its concrete operations and formal operation stages, and how biology and environment shape child thinking, alongside behaviorism and conditioning basics with ethical considerations.

Explore Pavlovian conditioning and Thorndike's instrumental conditioning, linking bell and reward to learning in animals, and show how praise or punishment shapes future student behavior.

Explore how bonding between the primary caregiver, typically the mother, and baby, rooted in Bowlby and Ainsworth's attachment theory, builds secure attachment and supports curiosity and healthy development.

Explore how social and emotional development unfolds from birth to 12 months, including secure, avoidant, ambivalent, and disorganized attachments, caregiver responsiveness, and early cognitive and emotional concerns.

Explore how sociocultural and environmental factors shape child development through attachment theory, detailing stages from social and indiscriminate to specific and multiple attachments, and the role of sensitive responsiveness.

Explore sociocultural theory’s view that culture and social interaction shape child development via language, private speech, and guidance from a more knowledgeable other.

Explore how parenting styles shape child development, from authoritarian to authoritative, permissive, and uninvolved approaches. Learn how parents' guidance, rules, and emotional engagement influence self-esteem, emotions, and behavior.

Explore how family breakdown, divorce, and parental conflict affect children, including emotional changes and coping, and compare school and home schooling environments' impact on child development.

Counselors use cognitive behavioral therapy and play therapy to help young children cope with depression, anxiety, trauma, and transformative life events, guiding them toward healthier coping strategies.

Explore emotional and cognitive development in early childhood, including rapid language growth from ages 3 to 6 and Piaget's four cognitive stages.

Explore how memory works in children through sensory memory, encoding, and long term storage, and how language acquisition, trauma, and counseling context influence recall and its accuracy.

Explore how emotions shape child behavior and how emotional intelligence develops. Learn strategies to foster emotional regulation, secure attachment, independence, curiosity, and social skills.

Explore innate reflexes in newborns, including sucking, grasping, startle reflex, stepping, and blinking, and how these survival instincts guide early motor development.