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Certificate In Psychology
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code: VPS002
In the certificate, you will gain useful insights into human behaviour in different situations. An understanding of psychology is especially beneficial to counsellors, teachers, managers and those working in the fields of health and community services. It is also relevant to sports and child care. This course allows you to choose modules that best meet your particular career or study needs. It is useful as a first step to further study, for increasing your employabilty in various areas such a social or community services or human resources, and as a complement to your existing qualifications qualifications.
Lesson Structure
To obtain this certificate you must satisfactorily complete all set tasks and assessments of two (2) core modules and four (4) electives from a chosen list, to ensure the course is tailored to your needs or choice!
Note that each module in the Certificate is a short course in its own right, and may be studied separately.
Core Modules These modules provide foundation knowledge for the Certificate In Psychology.
- Introduction To Psychology BPS101
- Psychology & Counselling BPS102
Elective Modules In addition to the core modules, students study any 4 of the following 14 modules.
- Biopsychology I BPS108
- Counselling Skills I BPS109
- Educational Psychology BPS105
- Industrial Psychology BPS103
- Marketing Psychology BPS107
- Sports Psychology BPS106
- Conflict Management BPS201
- Counselling Techniques BPS206
- Family Counselling BPS213
- Professional Practice in Counselling BPS207
- Relationships & Communication Counselling BPS208
- Criminal Psychology BPS309
- Psychological Assessment BPS308
- Psychopharmacology (Drugs & Psychology) BPS302
Some Sample Notes from Our Sports Psychology Course -
STEPS IN BUILDING A TEAM
Most psychologists agree that there are 4 steps in building a team:
1. Forming
2. Storming
3. Norming
4. Performing
FORMING
This is a process that involves familiarising individual team members with each other. Through interactions (e.g. training, playing together, meetings, socialising, etc) they can test and discover one another’s weaknesses and strengths, and those discoveries contribute towards forming the individuals into a unified group. Social get-togethers for a club helps build a team.
STORMING
This involves negative interaction (e.g. conflict, fighting, rebellion, polarisation, aggression) surfacing and then being dealt with so they are eliminated from the team.
Commonly conflict within a team is social conflict (though it may not be obvious that it is social conflict). Storming is dealing with issues such as competition between individuals for status or attention from other members, or the coach. When the storm subsides, the issues should be resolved. Be careful that the underlying issue is not simply buried…it should be resolved.
NORMING
This involves getting organised. The tendency for individuals to go in different directions has been largely overcome, and the collective as well as individual desire, has been to go in the same direction. Each member of the team will be developing a growing respect for each other
PERFORMING
At this stage the group’s energies are focused most strongly on achieving the group goals. The team members have a close and mature rapport for each other. Relationships are secure and stable in such a team. This stage is achieved by avoiding rather than promoting interpersonal aggression or intra-team aggression; and by all members (including the coach) being positive and supportive towards ALL other members (and never negative).
CORE MODULE OUTLINES
Introduction to Psychology
This course covers basic principles of human psychology. There are seven lessons in this course, as follows:
1. The nature & scope of Psychology
2. Neurological basis of behaviour
3. Environmental effects on behaviour
4. Consciousness and perception
5. Personality
6. Psychological development
7. Needs, drives and motivation
Psychology and Counselling
Successful completion of this module will develop the learner’s ability to analyse psychological processes and apply that knowledge in counselling or advisory situations. There are seven lessons in this module, as follows:
1. Stress
2. Abnormal Behaviour
3. Individual Behaviour
4. Group Behaviour
5. Methods of Dealing with Abnormalities
6. Conflict Resolution
7. Interpersonal Communication Skills
ELECTIVE MODULES (selected outlines)
Child Psychology
This module is designed to provide the student with an understanding of the cognitive, behavioural and emotional development of children. There are twelve lessons in this module, as follows:
1. Introduction to Child Psychology
2. The Newborn Infant
3. States & Senses of the Infant
4. Learning
5. Emotions and Socialisation
6. Cognitive Development
7. Language Development
8. Intelligence
9. Socialisation – Part A
10. Morality
11. Sexuality
12. Socialisation – Part B
Industrial Psychology
This module will develop your understanding of how the psychological state of employees in the workplace affects both their work and their overall well being. There are ten lessons in this course, as follows:
1. Introduction
2. Understanding the Employees Thinking
3. Personality & Temperament
4. Psychological Testing
5. Management & Managers
6. The Work Environment
7. Motivation and Incentives
8. Recruitment
9. Social Considerations
10. Abnormalities and Disorders
Sports Psychology
Successful completion of this module will develop your skills and understanding of the psychological dimensions of sports performance and coaching. There are ten lessons in this module as follows:
1. Introduction
2. Psychological Traits of Successful Athletes
3. Anxiety & Arousal
4. Motivation
5. Aggression
6. Leadership & Coaching
7. Team Dynamics
8. Special Groups.
Educational Psychology
Successful completion of this module will develop an understanding of the psychological processes that influence learning. There are eight lessons in this module as follows:
1. Introduction –Development & Learning Theory
2. Behavioural Learning
3. Information Processing
4. Memory Retention & Loss
5. Individual Needs
6. Constructivist Learning
7. Motivation
Conflict Management
This course gives the student insight into conflict and into different techniques for managing conflict to product positive outcomes. There are eight lessons in this course, as follows:
1. Conflict Management and Anger
2. Listening
3. Negotiation
4. Mediation
5. Facilitation
6. Balance of Power
7. Discussion and Group Work
8. Crisis Analysis and Responses
Biopsychology
Successful completion of this module will develop your understanding of physiological influences on human behaviour and the influence of thoughts, feelings, perception and other psychological processes on the physiology of the body. There are seven lessons in this module as follows:
1. Introduction
2. The Senses
3. The Nervous System
4. The Endocrine System
5. Stress
6. Emotions
7. Consciousness
Marketing Psychology
Successful completion of this module will develop your understanding of the psychological influences on consumers, and your ability to apply psychology to marketing. There are eight lessons in this module as follows:
1. People as Consumers
2. Market Segmentation
3. Internal Influences –Perception & Personality
4. Internal Influences –Motivation and Awareness
5. Social Influences –Small groups and family; social class, culture etc
6. Consumerism
7. Communication and Persuasion
8. Deciding to Buy
This course is accredited by the International Accreditation and Recognition Council.
Core Modules
Elective Modules
- Adolescent Psychology
- Biopsychology - Introduction (I)
- Child Psychology
- Conflict Management
- Educational Psychology
- Introduction to Sports Psychology
- Industrial Psychology
- Marketing Psychology
Delivery
- Correspondence
- Online
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