Basic Psychology University Approved Certificate Course

Explore how fear and anxiety differ, their infancy causes, and separation-related phobias, then learn conscious and unconscious coping strategies, including defense mechanisms, self-hypnosis, breathing, and progressive relaxation.

Apply the contraction and relaxation technique with focused breathing to tense and release facial, neck, shoulder, and limb muscles, practicing 15–20 minutes daily for deeper rest and reduced fear.

Explore cognitive distortions in social anxiety, identify anxious thoughts, challenge them, reduce safety behaviors, and practice deep muscle relaxation to ease physical symptoms in social settings.

Explore relaxation and breathing techniques to ease muscle tension and anxiety, learn to face feared situations gradually, and analyze thoughts to reduce avoidance behaviors.

Identify exhaustion symptoms like headaches, tiredness, and decreased libido, and seek support from professionals or the EAP to balance work, health, and personal life.

Explore practical strategies to support mental well-being through stress relief, physical activity, sleep hygiene, anger management, and seeking help when needed.

Explore lifespan development in children and adolescents, including Erickson’s stages, social scaffolding, and Bronfenbrenner’s ecological influences on health care, education, and culturally informed pain assessment.

Explore lifespan development from birth to adolescence, comparing reductionist, mediation, and contextual theories, and tracing Piaget's stages alongside social-cultural theory and the zone of proximal development.

Explore the main milestones of adulthood, including partnership, family, parenting, and retirement, and examine diverse kinship patterns, marriage forms, parenting styles, divorce, adoption, and the health implications across cultures.

The lecture analyzes handwriting features—letter spacing, spacing between words, letter size, and overall writing style—to infer emotional stress, self-confidence, and social tendencies, and connects these cues to behavior.

Explore psychology's branches, from educational and developmental psychology to learning and maturation across life. Examine major approaches—introspection, behaviorism, psychoanalysis, and humanism—and factors like inheritance, environment, parenting style, and readiness.

Explore the working memory model, including attention, phonological loop, visuospatial sketchpad, and central executive, and examine how short-term and long-term memory interact in learning and memory disorders.

Trace the history of medical herbs and their use for psychological healing from ancient civilizations through the ottoman era, exploring herbal preparations, hospitals, and notable physicians.

Explore how environmental psychology and environmental physiology shape plant growth and germination under factors like temperature, light, water, and climate change, informing agricultural science.

Explore medicinal and ornamental plants, focusing on alkaloids, roots, fruits, and leaves, and traditional Indian uses for digestion, worms, tuberculosis, and other health applications.

Explore amnesia, fugue, depersonalization, and dissociative identity disorder, including memory loss from trauma, identity disturbances, and related cognitive disorders.

Explore Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of dementia, its risk factors (age, education, sex), progression through early to severe stages, and hallmark plaques causing memory loss and visual disturbances.