Child Care and Child Psychology

This Child Care and Child Psychology Level 3 course is a knowledge-based course that will allow you to develop your knowledge and understanding of working in child care and provide you with a foundation of knowledge in child psychology to support your work. It is ideal for anyone working in a child care setting who wishes to expand their knowledge, or someone considering a career in child care. During the child care section of this bundle course, you will learn how to promote the wellbeing and healthy lifestyle of children in the setting, as well as gaining an understanding of chronic childhood diseases, the administrative procedures involved in a child care setting, and the learning and development of young children. The child psychology section of your course will cover topics such as how children develop attachment and form relationships, the way in which their memory works to support their learning; and their emotional, social, and moral development.  

Course Content

Child Care Level 3

Unit 1 Healthy living

• What is a healthy lifestyle?
• Exercise
• Healthy eating
• Activities for young children
• Wellbeing for children and their families

Unit 2 Child care at home

• Documentation required for a home child care business
• Intellectual development
• Supervision and travel to destinations away from the child care setting
• Good health and safety practices indoors and outdoors

Unit 3 Building positive relationships

• Current legal requirements
• Respecting and valuing individuality
• How to deal with conflict

Unit 4 Health promotion and development

• Types of foods that should be avoided
• Special dietary requirements
• Childhood chronic diseases and how they can affect development
• Government guidelines on food and nutrition

Unit 5 Administrative procedures within the child care setting

• Data Protection Act
• Keeping accurate and up-to-date information
• Methods and systems for recording financial information
• Tax and VAT
• Storing data

Unit 6 Development and learning

• Using ICT
• Safety concerns
• Literacy, language and communication
• Numeracy, reasoning skills and problem-solving
• Physical development
• Personal, social and emotional development
• Creative development

Unit 1 Defining child psychology

• How can we define childhood?
• Historical perspectives of childhood
• Emergence of psychology
• Psychoanalytical perspective
• Behaviourism
• Classical conditioning
• Changing behaviour
• The cognitive, physiological, scientific, humanistic and evolutionary approaches to psychology
• Research methods in psychology
• Child psychology tools

Unit 2 Forming relationships in childhood

• Attachment
• Nature/nurture debate
• Bowlby's theory
• Innate programming
• Different types of attachment
• Disruption of attachment
• The child's first relationship

Unit 3 Perception, cognition and language

• Understanding language
• Cognitive structure and input
• Plurals, syntax and grammar
• The relevance of language to child psychology
• Cognition
• Vision and cognitive development
• Hearing and cognitive development
• Perception
• Piaget
• Socialisation

Unit 4 Emotional, social, and moral development

• Social learning theory
• Cognitive priming
• Kohlberg's perspective
• Eisenberg's perspective
• Emotion and morality
• Temperament and emotional development

Unit 5 Children’s minds

• Memory and memory processes
• Short- and long-term memory
• Models of memory
• Prenatal memory and learning
• From memory to mental activity
• The organisation of children's minds
• How children view others in their world
• How does all this relate to child psychology?

Unit 6 Moving towards adulthood

• Adolescence
• Development
• Having a sense of gender
• Change