Health Care Courses - Psychology

Jacob's The eLearning Centre proudly offers the most comprehensive collection of online continuing education courses from the world's best eLearning companies and authors. Through partnerships with respected online training corporations and institutions across the globe we provide self-study courses with open enrollment in nearly every subject imaginable. The courses here are health care courses.

Psychology Courses

Courses with brief introductions are given below:

Anger and Aggression Management

It is a known fact that the confusion of angry feelings with aggressive behaviour creates a tremendous barrier to the expression of the natural, healthy, universal and useful human emotion that we call anger. Individuals who have controlled their anger do not openly express their feelings, but this in itself is destructive behaviour because suppressed, undealt with anger is unhealthy and can lead to a wide range of physical and psychiatric disorders.

Autogenic Training

Autogenic training can be defined as a technique of medical therapy designed to exert a normalising influence upon mental and bodily functions.

By the late 1920s, Schulz had evolved the six standard psycho-physiological exercises of autogenic training which he called the autogenic standard series. These exercises involve a series of verbal formulae upon which subjects passively concentrate, while lying with their eyes closed in a quiet room. Each exercise is practised several times under the supervision of a trained therapist, until the subject is able to shift voluntarily from a high arousal state to a wakeful low arousal state.

Behavioural Therapy

Andrew Salter who founded modern behavioural therapy used conceptions of excitation and inhibition as the basis for treatment of the neurotic. When excitatory forces dominate, people are action-orientated and emotionally free. They meet life on their own terms. The neurotic, on the other hand, always suffers from an excess of inhibition. Through this course the student will learn how Behavioural Therapy employs mental and physical exercise to build and strengthen the excitatory processes, creating a new balance where they can dominate the brain functioning and overcome problematic behaviour.

Child Development

This course examines areas of communication, language, play and social learning, whilst exploring the physical, mental and emotional development of the child. Formulated to cater to the needs and requirements of those engaged, or contemplating careers in child care, nursing or social care. It will also have great appeal to the parent who is seeking to enhance his or her awareness and knowledge of child development.

Child Psychology Diploma

Child Psychology Diploma ASET Level 4

This in-depth course in Child Psychology will provide you with an amazing insight into the development of children and will help you understand the things and situations that can affect how a child behaves.

Whether you are a parent or work within the childcare profession this course will provide you with the skills and knowledge to help a child to reach his or her maximum potential. The course has been designed for some one without any prior knowledge of the subject and will allow the student to study the course at their own pace in their own home.

Child Psychology Skills

Parents, teachers, nurses, indeed all of us, being exposed to young children at one time or another, can enrich both our social experience and that of children by understanding children and the developmental processes they experience.
This course would be of value to anyone who works or lives with children and an ideal course for teachers wanting to get some background information on the psychological understanding of the "Little people".

Co-Dependency

For those who are living in a Co-dependant relationship it often means a constant battle for survival against pain and frustration. Co-dependants are capable of healthy and happy relationships if they are fortunate enough to be able to avail themselves of the services of a counsellor or therapist who is aware of the difficulties that they are experiencing and who has the knowledge and skills necessary to enable them to successfully address the problem.
This course has been formulated to provide the student with sufficient knowledge and to equip them with the basic skills that will enable them to assist a client, friend or colleague to break out of this painful cycle of dysfunction.

Compulsive Behavioural Disorders

Persons suffering from compulsive behaviour disorders are usually subjected to advice and guidance which is somewhat one-sided, often based on ignorance of the subject in question and knowledge of the areas of help available.
This course is formulated and facilitated for the interest of the more enlightened student who can look beyond the orthodox approach and appreciate that individuals who are suffering from established patterns of compulsive eating, dieting, working, gambling, spending, exercising, are involved in addictive behaviours. As well as being progressive diseases, these behaviours have many harmful effects that disrupt and prevent an honest intimacy and interaction in a family unit.

Counselling Children & Adolescents Diploma Course

Counsellors help the client find their own answers and become more in charge of their own lives rather than less so; to be able to live their own life rather than be lived by it.

Counselling Skills Diploma Course - Advanced

'Counselling can enable a person to clarify their thoughts and feelings in order that they might arrive at their own decisions and even comfortably initiate major changes in their lives.
There is a real danger that counselling is losing touch with its roots as, on an ever increasing level, counsellors are working on a long-term basis with clients who are severely disturbed. Counselling was never intended for such a field but was originally developed for those persons who had vocational or educational problems, those with life crises and those who wished to explore and develop further.
This course is designed to enhance the knowledge, skills and awareness of students who are seeking to mature and grow within their chosen fields.

Counselling Skills Diploma Course - Basic

Counselling is essentially a lively, human and personal experience between two people. Therefore, it is a process which requires commitment of time and effort from both parties. The aim is for the counsellor to help the client find their own answers and to become more in charge of their lives rather than less so; to be able to live their own life rather than be lived by it.

Creative Imagery - Reme

Visualisation therapy can be a powerful and beneficial force. It teaches techniques to benefit health, to assist other natural healing processes and to reinforce positive feelings and well-being. Visualisation is using the conscious mind to imagine positive events based on the fact that there is a close link between emotions, images and sensations.

Depression Management

It is one of the most distressing and commonly occurring disorders. It is easily diagnosed yet, though eminently treatable many sufferers never receive any adequate therapy whatsoever; it is depression. This course offers the student a straightforward coping strategy for helping the client, family member or friend to work through and/or cope with depression. Included is a discussion of the common signs of depression and an explanation as to why so many individuals are prone to feeling depressed.

Developmental Psychology

Adult behaviour and personality characteristics are influenced by events that occur during the early years of life.
In this course we help the student to understand the psychological processes of human adults by illustrating how the processes of perceptions, motives, conflicts, patterns of thinking, emotions and coping strategies originate and change over time and show that with a better understanding of problems they might be more positively addressed at an early age.

Drug, Solvent & Alcohol Abuse Counselling

This course has been mapped to the DANOS standards and can be found on the DANOS Learning Resources Database. It helps people develop their knowledge, skills and competence in the following DANOS units: AA1, AA2, AA5, AB1, AB2, AB4, AB5, AB6, AB8, AB10, AC3, AD1, AE1, AF1, AF2, AF3, AH7, AI1, AI2, AI3, AJ1, AJ2
Addiction to alcohol and drugs is a widespread malady that is treacherous because it is so often concealed.
This course sets out in simple form the essentials for understanding alcohol and drug problems, for making an assessment of the individual. For giving appropriate help within one's own competence and for making referral to the agencies where necessary. The background of students might be diverse, but whatever the background the aim of this course is to enable the student to acquire the necessary skills and knowledge to help the suffering individual and their family members into recovery.

Dysfunctional Family Counselling

In the acquisition of a new habit, or the leaving of an old one we must take care to launch ourselves with as strong and decided initiative as possible.
No family consciously makes a decision to become dysfunctional and do harm to its members. However, there is a strong attraction that dwells in our memory of the past, despite its negativity, and where marriage is concerned there are often unrecognised forces at work.
Through its maladaptive behaviours, this family develops a set of restrictions that inhibit the social and emotional growth of its members, particularly the children.

Eating Disorders Diploma Course

Incorrectly perceived as a 'slimmers' disease resulting from vanity, eating disorders are on the increase, not just for adolescent girls, but for men, women and children of all ages. Despite the increase, the disorder is usually misunderstood and treatment is both inappropriate and ineffective.
This course provides much valuable tuition concerning the physical and psychological symptoms and problems of anorexia, bulimia, binge-eating, laxative abuse and related eating difficulties.

Educational Psychology

The educational system provides a wide range of opportunities for psychologists. Because the beginnings of serious emotional problems often appear in the early years, many elementary schools employ psychologists whose training combines courses in child development, education and clinical psychology to work with individual children to evaluate learning and emotional problems. In consultation with parents and teachers they plan ways of helping the child both in the classroom and the home. This course offers an insight to this field.

Education In Psychology

The course work covered offers the student immediate access to the general theory and practical skills that lie at the heart of Education in Psychology.
In focussing on both the emotional and intellectual development issues of childhood and later years, the course puts Education in Psychology into a clear perspective.
Students, teachers, counsellors, personal trainers and all those with a genuine interest in education will find this course invaluable.

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Gestalt Therapy

Fritz Perls initiated the development of Gestalt psychotherapy which lays great emphasis on the client's achievement of a sense of the present, an ability to accept the value of 'here and now' feelings and experience life without castrating it by immediate historical reference and justification. It aims to enable people to use the capacity of the human imagination to explore both experience and the possibilities of a particular person's world. As students of this course will discover, like most therapies it has been as prolific in devising techniques as it has in proposing a general approach.

Grief & Bereavement Counselling

Grief is a measure of our love and independence and is the price we have to pay for loving.
The chaos of grief can be at the same time overwhelming and a refuge to retreat into. For those who are suffering there is no consolation and for those around them words prove appallingly inadequate.
Working with the bereaved deals with an important aspect of counselling. The sense of loss, intense grief and depression that follows bereavement can be almost unbearable and the need for counselling is often a desperate one.

Individual and Interpersonal Behaviour

Most of the research into human motivation has been carried out in respect of work. Some of these ideas and research results are complex, with Researchers attempting to identify the factors that motivate, or prevent motivation in people.

Industrial Psychology

The object of this course is to provide an introduction to general psychology and to show its many facets regarding its application to the management of social groups and the interaction of these groups in industry and commerce. The course is not intended to make the student an expert in psychology, but its purpose is to provide an insight into the contribution which psychology plays in the role of management. For those who are already in management positions, this course will improve your ability to deal with individuals and groups.

Inner Healing

More and more people are turning to professional counsellors to help them with the ever-escalating problems of modern society.
An excellent opportunity to study multi-disciplinary therapeutic techniques, culminating in a complete "tool-box" of diagnostic counselling tools.
This course provides the student with comprehensive knowledge of the broad counselling spectrum approaches.

Integrated Therapeutic Counselling

Introduction to Psychology

Psychology is the science of mind and behaviour. No matter who we are or what we do and insight into this field of study will assist you in a better understanding of life and a persons mindset.

Introductory Psychology

Students enrol for courses in psychology for a number of reasons, but few are motivated by a desire to know what psychologists do. They want to know what is relevant to their lives, to their futures and how to cope with problems they themselves face and those they must confront within society. Psychology touches almost every part of our lives and in its various forms addresses the entire person; present and past history, needs and wants, joys and complaints, and in doing so presents us with the opportunity to bring the mind, the body and the spirit into alignment enabling all aspects of personality to function in harmony.

Journal Therapy

Journalling is considered an effective lifelong tool in self-therapy and self-guidance for those who feel that they have the necessary resources within to act as their own counsellor.
In this course we would hope to teach the student - whether they be practising therapists, counsellors or simply individuals seeking concrete methods to address personal problems and promote self-reliance and inner liberation - the skills and techniques which will enable them to employ journal therapy to its greatest advantage.
The use of the journal as a therapeutic tool - as an aid to personal growth and for realising creative potential - can only be seen as a phenomenon of this century.

Life Skills Coaching Diploma Course

In a world of ever-increasing stress, we need to develop and maintain control over our lives, We need to organize, prioritise, achieve targets, communicate effectively, handle change - and we need to be assertive, confident and happy.
Life Skills Trainers help to achieve life's goals, teaching clients to both identify and achieve what they want in their personal and professional lives.
Life Skills Coaching is set to become big business, it is being hailed as the next generation personal trainer.

Meridian Therapies

Recent breakthroughs and developments in the field of Meridian therapies have provided practitioners the world over with a new collection of groundbreaking techniques for providing quick and permanent relief from negative emotional states. Due to their staggering success rate psychotherapists and hypnotherapists in large numbers are keen to investigate these methods and incorporate them into their practice.
Energy or Meridian Psychotherapies, as they are known, are causing a revolution in complimentary medicine as we know it. These are exciting times as this is the first distance learning course of its kind in Europe.
The Meridian Therapies Course will introduce the student to techniques which are an essential part of any therapists toolbox.

Neuro Linguistic Programming

A person cannot drink the word 'water' nor can the word 'rain' make you wet. You must experience water or rain to truly know what the words mean. Words themselves keep you several steps removed from the experience. You experience in you own life essentially what you believe. If, for example, you believe strongly in scarcity, think about it regularly, and make it the focus of your conversations, it is certain that you will see a great deal of it in your life. On the other hand, if you believe in happiness and abundance, think only about them, talk about them with others, and act on your belief in them, it follows that you are seeing what you believe. The principles set down in this course of NLP may require you to sketch new ideas. Should you diligently follow the prescribed path and apply these principles, you will never again return to the being as you were before.

Neuro Psychological Immunology Diploma Course

Just as Neuro-Linguistic Programming exemplifies excellence in performance, so the new science of NPI exemplifies excellence in health. Health is positive. It comes naturally as the direct result of how we think and feel. It is a state of being. To try to separate body and mind in health and illness is like trying to separate the salt from the sea water with a knife. Mind and body are constantly influencing each other towards health or illness. NPI teaches that bodies do not get ill - people do.

Peak Performance Coaching

On this course students will learn balancing techniques for assisting clients in working at their best all day every day.
These techniques are both effective and flexible and offer the qualified student a wide variety of opportunities for developing their practice such as: corporate presentations for stress reduction, sports performance coaching, individual assessment and coaching for maximum energy.
This course is the first of it's kind in Europe. The techniques presented include Educational Kinesiology brain balancing techniques and the best of the new Meridian Therapies -a collection of meridian healing techniques and life tools that are essential knowledge to any serious natural healthcare professional.

Primal Therapy

Evolved from Cariel's Scream Therapy and Janov's Primal Therapy, this therapeutic approach enables the client through the act of ventilating to asset their right to the open expression of feelings and discover that he or she is constitutionally capable of such expression.

Professional Hypnotherapy Diploma Course

Hypnosis is a state of mind in which the subconscious temporarily becomes highly receptive to suggestion and change. At any time when our conscious mind is absorbed the subconscious mind is more open and vulnerable.
Hypnotherapy serves as a means of communication between the subconscious and conscious mind - between feeling and intellect. A hypnotherapist does not and cannot control another person�s mind. The function of the hypnotherapist is to assist and coach in order to mobilise the beneficial powers of the subconscious. This course makes the techniques and the benefits of the hypnotic trance and self-hypnosis available to you.

Professional Therapeutic Counselling

Counsellors and therapists deal with a broad range of difficulties including redundancy, marital problems, alcoholism, eating disorders, self-esteem and bereavement. This integrated course is based upon the theory that life's difficulties are perceived and tackled by the individual in relation to a host of social factors such as family makeup and background, ethnicity, cultural, educational and economic circumstances. Using such an approach, the therapist's task is to work with the client within this context as briefly and economically as possible in order to reframe the perception of and approach to problem management and resolution.

Psychology Advanced Diploma

Have you ever wondered why the happy nine-month-old baby who always used to greet you with smiles and laughs has suddenly started crying as soon as you approach?
Have you ever found out why you are afraid of spiders, and what you can do to cure yourself?
Have you ever despaired of the fact that there is so much prejudice and discrimination in the world and wondered what can be done about it?
Have you ever watched in horror as a six-year-old watches the latest blood-thirsty �cops and robbers� programme on the television and then immediately starts thumping and shooting everybody, and wondered just what effects such violent television programmes might have on a child?
Have you ever watched a week-old baby apparently studying intently the people and objects around them and wondered what on earth they make of their new world and just what thoughts, if any, might be going through their mind?
If you have answered �yes� to one or more of these questions, then you�ll find this course a source of constant fascination as we examine a wide range of psychological topics and answer all of these questions.

Psychology ASET Level 3

Any one wanting to study this interesting course will end up enhancing their own experience in life and will give the student a greater understanding of yourself and others. This course will succeed in providing the student with greater knowledge of feelings, abilities and personalities. Most students also find that they gain a greater satisfaction within their job, their family and social life.
The course presumes no prior knowledge of the subject and will provide you with an amazing and interesting insight into this informative profession.

Psychotechnics

Psychotechnics is the application of psychological techniques to practical problems in a person's life. The study and application of this field enables the individual to overcome his inhibitions and develop his or her potential in any area of life, evolving further as a person. This course goes far beyond simply exploring and developing the powers of the mind. It is formulated for the thinking person who, tired of being a psychological slave, is receptive to a formula for converting wisdom into psychic power and believes themselves to be ready for an experience that will forever alter the thought process.

Psychotherapy Diploma Course

Psychotherapy Diploma Course Advanced

Regression Therapy - An Introduction

Rogerian Therapy

Smoking Cessation Therapy

Transactional Analysis

Women's Health (ProFemme) Practitioner

Workplace Psychology

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