Discover how children grow, learn, and thrive with the Certificate in Child Psychology, designed for parents, educators, and childcare professionals. Starting with core psychological concepts, you’ll explore key debates like nature versus nurture, development stages, and research methods used to study childhood. Gain clear understanding of cause versus correlation, continuous versus stage development, and how reliable children’s verbal reports are in research.
In this online child psychology course, you will explore newborn psychology, temperament origins, and the vital influence of parental wellbeing and father involvement. Learn how infants perceive their environment through sound, smell, and vision, their behavioural states, and effective soothing and bonding strategies that support brain and body development.
As children grow, you’ll study how they learn through cognitive and behavioural perspectives including conditioning and self-regulation, the role of play in learning, and language acquisition. Explore emotional and social development, attachment theories by Freud, Bowlby, and Harlow, and the critical role of secure relationships.
Finally, you will discover moral reasoning, empathy, socialisation influences, intelligence, psychosexual stages, gender identity, and child protection. By the end, you’ll have a deep, research-based understanding and practical knowledge to support children’s wellbeing across all development stages.
Printed learning materials may be available free to print for this course. Requests can be made by contacting us.
