Community & Social Service Studies
Psychology & Behavioral Science
Course Outline
Upon completion of this course you will have theoretical knowledge and skills to deal with human behavior in social service, schools, primary health care facilities, mental health and addiction treatment centers, correctional settings, in human resource management. This course is designed to provide you with comprehensive concepts and methods of modern psychology as a behavioral science and a tool in clinical practice. This is a single stream course consisting of two parts. Each part contains different number of lessons and examinations.
Topics of study covered within this course include the following:
- Discovering Psychology
- Psychology & Science
- Brain's Building Blocks
- Incredible Nervous System
- Sensation
- Perception
- Sleep & Dreams
- Hypnosis & Drugs
- Classical Conditioning
- Operant & Cognitive Approaches
- Types of Memory
- Remembering & Forgetting
- Intelligence
- Thought & Language
- Motivation
- Emotion
- Infancy & Childhood
- Adolescence & Adulthood
- Freudian & Humanistic Theories
- Social Cognitive & Trait Theories
- Health, Stress, & Coping
- Assessment & Anxiety Disorders
- Mood Disorder & Schizophrenia
- Therapies
- Social Psychology
Duration
Approximately 20 hours per part
Text Books
The text books required for this course are outined below and can be purchased directly through any online book supplier:
ISBN#: 978-0-495-10318-9
ISBN#: 978-0-495-10416-2
Prerequisites
None
Cost
$499.00 per part (This course consists of 2 parts in total)