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What is a psychologist? A psychologist is someone who help people learn healthy ways to handle mental health problems. They study and help treat people's social, emotional, and cognitive processes and behaviours. They do this by evaluating and understanding their clients' thoughts, behaviours, and emotions. Psychologists do this by: identifying behavioural and emotional patterns, diagnosing disorders, making referrals, and coming up with appropriate treatment plans. During this Advanced Psychology QLS Level 4 course, you will examine the role of social influence in social change, the psychology of stress, and much more. This course will allow you to study at a time and place which suits you with no strict deadlines or timetabling to contend with. This means you can fit studying around your other commitments! You will receive your course by post, so getting your materials is easy and hassle-free. Your personal tutor is there to support you every step of the way by email, so help is only a click away! Start your journey and develop your skills and knowledge today and join over [past_students_count] students that already have! This course is approved by the ACCPH (Accredited Counsellors, Coaches, Psychotherapists and Hypnotherapists), at the end of this course students will be able to join and become a member of the ACCPH. The ACCPH is an independent self-regulated professional body for counsellors, psychotherapists and hypnotherapists. What next? There are several avenues you can go down once you have successfully completed this course. You could take a look at our other psychology courses, or you could further your education by studying a psychology degree at university. If you want to work in psychology using your Advanced Psychology Level 4 qualification, here are just a few of the jobs you could explore (depending on your credentials):
- Counselling psychologist
- Educational psychologist
- Sport and exercise psychologist
- Occupational psychologist
- Psychological wellbeing practitioner
- Forensic psychologist
Course Content
Unit 1 Social influence and conformity
- Internalisation
- Identification
- Compliance
- Informational social influence
- Normative social influence
- Conformity to social roles
- Explanations for obedience
- Resistance to social influence and minority influence
- Role of social influence in social change
Unit 2 Psychopathology
- Abnormality
- Deviation from social norms
- Behavioural, emotional and cognitive characteristics of phobias, depression and obsessive compulsive disorder
- Cognitive approach to explaining and treating depression
- Biological approach to explaining and treating OCD
Unit 3 The psychology of stress
- Physiology of stress
- Role of stress in illness
- Sources of stress
- Measuring stress
- Individual differences in stress
- Individual differences in personality types A, B and C
- Individual differences in associated behaviours
- Managing and coping with stress
Unit 4 Debates in psychology
- Gender and culture in psychology
- Free will and determinism
- The nature-nurture debate
- Holism and reductionism
Unit 5 Approaches in psychology
- Behaviourist approach
- Social learning theory
- The cognitive approach
- The emergence of cognitive neuroscience
- The biological approach
Unit 6 Forensic psychology
- Problems in defining crime
- Ways of measuring crime
- Offering profiling
- Biological and psychological explanation of offending behaviour and how offending behaviour is managed
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