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Overview
Program Description
These interactive courses will focus on the development process, understanding psychiatric disorders and associated behaviours, risk factors and triggers, the identification of behaviours and symptoms, family relationships, and intervention/prevention strategies. This program is offered fully online, through OntarioLearn.Courses
Program Requirements
| Level 1 | ||||
| Take all of the following Mandatory Courses: | ||||
| Expected Availability | ||||
| Credits | Fall | Winter | Summer | |
| Cognitive Development Trauma & LossHLTH-1207 | 3 | Yes | Yes | Yes View More Details about HLTH-1207 |
| Learners will determine the effects of trauma on cognitive development of infants, children and adolescents. Students will also identify those children with trauma histories in order to limit the potential triggers within the therapeutic environment. The theories of loss and grief, as these relate to the infant, child and adolescent population will be explored throughout the course. | ||||
| Family Relationships Psych DisordersPSYC-1099 | 3 | Yes | Yes | Yes View More Details about PSYC-1099 |
| Students will examine the interconnectedness of family relationships and their effect on common abnormal psychiatric disorders in the infant, child and adolescent populations. This course will review the developmental stages, familial structures and family functions through the lens of family systems theory. Students will also explore the environmental effects and their influenes on the family as a dynamic entity. | ||||
| Prevention & Intervention StrategiesHLTH-1206 | 3 | Yes | Yes | Yes View More Details about HLTH-1206 |
| Students will apply prevention and intervention strategies to appropriately respond to stressful situations in the infant, child and adolescent population. The focus of this course is on the effective application, critical thinking and problem solving skills in a variety of situations. | ||||
| Psych Disorders ChildrenPSYC-1097 | 3 | Yes | Yes | Yes View More Details about PSYC-1097 |
| To understand complicated mental health disorders common to infant, child and adolescents, students will review a variety of abnormal cognitive and behavioural disorders. This course will emphasize an understanding of the behaviours and the daily effects and challenges on the mental health of the infant, child, and adolescent population. | ||||
| Risk Factors of Common Psych DisordersPSYC-1098 | 3 | Yes | Yes | Yes View More Details about PSYC-1098 |
| Students will recognize the risk factors and triggers associated with common psychiatric disorders in the infant, child and adolescent population. Early identification and awareness of the behaviours will enable the student to appropriately identify and assess the situation at hand. | ||||
| Developmental PsychologyPSYC-1031 | 3 | Yes | Yes | Yes View More Details about PSYC-1031 |
| This course offers the student a survey of developmental psychology, covering topics across the human lifespan, from infancy through to old age. Through readings and lecture material, students will examine theories of child development and the research that bears on these theories. Students will also examine development across the physical, social, emotional, and cognitive domains. Finally, students will address major themes in the study of developmental psychology, including: the nature-nurture issue; the effects of early experience; and continuity - discontinuity in developmental change. | ||||
| Program Residency | ||||
| Students Must Complete a Minimum of 5 credits in this program at Fanshawe College to meet the Program Residency requirement and graduate from this program | ||||
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