Early Years and Child Psychology QLS Level 3

This Early Years and Child Psychology Level 3 course is a knowledge-based course that will allow you to develop your knowledge and understanding of how to care for, support, and develop children in an early years child care setting and a foundation of knowledge in child psychology to support your work. It is ideal for anyone working in an early years child care setting who wishes to expand their knowledge, or someone considering a career in child care. During the early years section of this bundle course, you will learn how to develop positive relationships with a child, how to support a child's learning and development, and how you can safeguard children within your role. 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 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

Unit 1 A unique child

• A child's development
• Factors affecting development
• Meeting the individual child's needs
• Differentiation
• Equality, diversity and inclusion
• Promoting children's physical and emotional wellbeing
• The Children Act 1989

Unit 2 Developing positive relationships

• Respectful relationships
• Communication needs
• Relationships within early years settings
• Children's friendships
• The key worker
• Effective communication with children
• Partnerships with parents
• Effective communication with parents
• Multi-agency working
• Confidentiality

Unit 3 Providing an enabling environment

• Organising the environment
• Laws and legislation
• Security
• Heating, lighting and ventilation
• Safety equipment
• Risk assessment
• The indoor environment
• The outdoor environment
• The wider environment
• The common assessment framework

Unit 4 Supporting children's learning and development

• Areas of development
• The characteristics of effective learning
• Playing and exploring
• Active learning
• The prime areas of learning
• Personal, social and emotional development
• Physical development
• The specific areas of learning
• Understanding the world
• Expressive arts and design
• Planning to meet children's development needs

Unit 5 Effective planning, observation and assessment

• Observation
• Methods of observation
• Factors to consider when observing children
• Statutory assessment
• The early years foundation stage profile
• Long-term planning
• Medium-term planning
• Short-term planning

Unit 6 Safeguarding the welfare of the child

• Child protection
• Spotting signs of abuse
• Responding to concerns
• RIDDOR 1995
• Providing a nutritionally balanced diet
• Food safety and hygiene
• Behaviour management
• The layout of the environment