Overview

This course gives learners an awareness of child development and the opportunity to begin to think about how an understanding of how children and young people develop impacts on practice.

Objectives

• Outline the benefits of studying the development of the child or young person
• Explore the key questions in child development
• Acquire a basic understanding of how babies and children form attachments
• Understand how attachments can affect boundary formation and the social, emotional, and behavioural development of children and young people
• Understand Maslow’s hierarchy of human need
• Understand Levin’s theory of child development
• Understand Piaget’s cognitive development theory
• Understand Vygotsky’s social learning theory
• Understand Erikson’s theory of psycho-social development

Audience

This course is for anyone working with children or is interested in their development.