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Child Psychology Course Outline

Child Psychology Module 1
Child Development, Heredity, Conception, and Prenatal Development

• History, Theories, and Methods
• What Is Child Development?
• Coming to Terms with Terms
• Theories of Child Development
• Controversies in Child Development
• How Do We Study Child Development?
• The Influence of Heredity on Development: The Nature of Nature
• Heredity and the Environment: Nature versus Nurture
• Conception: Against All Odds
• The Germinal Stage: Wanderings
• The Embryonic and Fetal Stages
• Environmental Influences on Prenatal Development

Child Psychology Module 2
Birth, The Newborn Baby, and Infancy

• The Stages of Birth
• Methods of Childbirth
• Birth Problems
• The Postpartum Period
• Characteristics of Neonates
• Physical Growth and Development
• Development of the Brain and Nervous System
• Motor Development: How Moving
• Sensory and Perceptual Development: Taking in the World
• Cognitive Development: Jean Paget
• Information Processing
• Individual Differences in Intelligence among Infants
• Testing Infants: Why and with What?
• Instability of Intelligence Scores Attained in Infancy
• Use of Visual Recognition Memory: An Effort to Enhance Predictability
• Language Development
• Attachment: Bonds That Endure
• When Attachment Fails
• Day Care
• Emotional and Personality Development

Child Psychology Module 3
Early and Middle Childhood

• Growth Patterns
• Motor Development
• Nutrition
• Health and Illness
• Sleep
• Elimination Disorders
• Jean Paget’s Preoperational Stage
• Factors in Cognitive Development
• Theory of Mind: What Is the Mind? How Does it Work?
• Development of Memory: Creating “Documents,” Storing Them, and Retrieving Them
• Language Development: Why “Daddy Goed Away”
• Influences on Development: Parents, Siblings, and Peers
• Social Behaviors: In the World, among Others
• Personality and Emotional Development
• Development of Gender Roles and Sexual Differences
• Physical Development of Middle Childhood

Child Psychology Module 4
More on Middle Childhood and Adolescence

• Piaget: The Concrete-Operational Stage
• Moral Development: The Child as a Juror
• Information Processing: Learning, Remembering, Problem Solving
• Intellectual Development, Creativity, and Achievement
• Language Development and Literacy
• Theories of Social and Emotional Development in Middle Childhood
• The Family, Peer Relationships, and The School
• Social and Emotional Problems
• Puberty: The Biological Eruption
• Emerging Sexuality and the Risks of Sexually Transmitted Infections
Health in Adolescence
• The Adolescent in Thought: My, My, How “Formal”
• The Adolescent in Judgment: Moral Development
• The Adolescent in School
• The Adolescent at Work: Career Development and Work Experience
• Development of Identity and Self-Concept: “Who Am I?” (and Who Else?)
• Relationships with Parents and Peers
• Sexuality: When? What? (How?) Who? Where? and Why? – Not to Mention, “Should I?”
• Juvenile Delinquency
• Suicide: When the Adolescent Has Nothing – Except Everything – to Lose
• Epilogue: Emerging Adulthood – Bridging Adolescence and the Life Beyond
 
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This program is specifically designed to serve as an introduction or enhancement of the theoretical knowledge required for the vocational application of this subject. It is intended to help individuals in the furtherance of their vocational training and is not intended as a substitute for licensing or certification requirements, which may include an apprenticeship or additional training, as required by law.
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