Psychology Studies

What is psychology? Psychology is the scientific study of the mind as well as behaviour. Psychologists work to understand mental processes, behaviour, and brain functions. As well as providing an excellent knowledge base in psychology, this bundle is ideal for students who are already working in psychology and want to boost their knowledge, or those who are considering a career in psychology and want to learn more. This bundle 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 Psychology Studies bundle qualifications, 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

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Course Content

Advanced Psychology QLS Level 4

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

Child Psychology QLS Level 3

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

NLP QLS Level 3

Unit 1 Development of NLP

• Anatomy of the brain
• What is NLP?
• Historical development of NLP
• NLP uses
• NLP application
• NLP modelling
• Core skills
• Anchoring
• Reframing
• Presuppositions

Unit 2 NLP principles

• NLP focus
• Pyramid of outcomes
• Positive intention
• State model
• Life content model
• SMART goals
• Chunking
• Core competencies and skills
• Levels of communication

Unit 3 NLP values, belief systems and modalities

• Defining belief systems and values
• Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
• Attachment and developmental theories
• Revisiting learning styles
• Applying predicates (preferences)
• Additional NLP modalities

Unit 4 Levels in NLP and language

• Language acquisition
• NLP levels
• Transference
• Meta programming
• Revisiting learning styles and preferences

Unit 5 NLP programme design

• Application of core competencies and skills
• How to plan and design a programme
• Reframing approach and various types
• Modelling approach
• Anchoring approach
• Reinforcement of behaviour changes

Unit 6 Applications of NLP and professional practice

• An overview of ethical practice and professional codes
• Legal responsibilities such as data protection
• Coaching and training
• Professional development
• Group settings and contexts
• Human resource contexts (workplace, interviews, etc.)
• Skills development

Psychology QLS Level 3

Unit 1 Defining psychology

• Introduction
• Psychology practice and approaches
• Behaviourism
• Classification of psychology

Unit 2 Research methods in psychology

• Qualitative or quantitative
• Ethical considerations
• Experimental and non-experimental methods
• Analysing and presenting data

Unit 3 Psychological abnormality

• The Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders
• Schizophrenia
• Depression
• Personality disorders

Unit 4 Behaviour and experience

• The central nervous system
• Sensory processes
• Addictive behaviour
• Drug addiction
• Alcohol addiction
• Smoking addiction
• Motivation

Unit 5 Cognitive psychology

• Perception
• Attention
• Language acquisition
• Memory
• Development of the shelf

Unit 6 Social psychology

• Conformity
• Groups and group behaviour
• Altruism
• Pro-social and anti-social behaviour
• Aggression