Counseling Psychology Children and Adolescents Certificate

Build an agreement with your client, establish mutual trust and confidentiality, and cultivate a therapeutic relationship through empathy, active listening, and respectful, nonjudgmental interaction.

Explore the developmental cycle across infancy to adolescence through Erikson's psychosocial theory, focusing on early and middle childhood, autonomy, curiosity, and how overprotective parenting can hinder competence and self-esteem.

Explore the developmental cycle of adolescence, focusing on identity formation, peer influence, and sexual maturation, and learn counseling strategies to reframe mindsets, explore options, and craft action plans.

Explore how the parent-child-teacher triad shapes child development, attachment formation, and counseling practice, with emphasis on positive teacher support, transparent communication, and mandatory reporting of abuse.

Explore child development across key ages seven to eighteen, highlighting emotional expression, peer relationships, aggression, and the transition to independence through hormonal and cognitive changes.

This lecture surveys Freud's psychosexual theory for children and adolescents, detailing five stages—oral, anal, phallic, latent, genital—and how fixations shape personality and later behaviors such as smoking or overeating.

Explore attachment theory by Balbi and Aynesworth, showing how early bonds with a primary caregiver shape well-being and later behavior, including secure, anxious, avoidant, anxious resistin, and disorganized attachments.

Examine internal and external conflicts shaping counselor–client relationships and adolescent development, including sleep, behavior, health, identity formation, and the need for resources and referrals.

Explore James Marsia's four identity stages—diffusion, foreclosure, moratorium, and achievement—and how career uncertainty, identity masks, and parental pressure influence adolescent choices toward the healthiest identity achievement.

Explore behavioral therapies based on classical conditioning and operant conditioning, using reinforcement, punishment, and modeling to shape thoughts, feelings, and behaviors in children and adolescents.

Engage children through play therapy and narrative therapy to explore emotions safely. Empower them by counseling that values strengths, addresses bullying and grief, and notes the duty to report abuse.

Explore vernacular non-verbal body language in counseling with a focus on children and adolescents, emphasizing attentive listening, open-ended questions, paraphrasing, strategic pauses, and open body language to validate client perspectives.