BSc (Hons) Child Psychology

Your degree in Child Psychology will develop your knowledge and understanding of children and young people from a psychological, cognitive, social, emotional, and cultural perspective. You’ll be focusing on why babies, children, adolescents and older people behave the way they do. You’ll also design and carry out studies to explore the factors that go to influence adult behaviour. The aim is to learn how psychologists can use their knowledge to understand individuals and help them to make a positive difference to their life’s development.

Year 1

• Thinking like a psychologist (mental wealth)
• Introduction to biological and social psychology and individual differences
• Introduction to cognitive and developmental psychology
• Psychology in applied contexts
• Researching with small samples
• Researching with larger samples

Year 2

Core

• Individual differences with diversity (mental wealth)
• Psychological research methods
• Topics in developmental and cognitive psychology
• Applications of psychobiology and social psychology
• Work-based learning in psychology

AND an option from

Developmental differences and difficulties (recommended option)

Or

The Psychology of Sleep and Dreaming
Research Skills in Cognitive Neuroscience
Introduction to Forensic Psychology
Psychology, Identity, and Society

Year 3

Core

• Psychology and social engagement (mental wealth)
• Psychology of mental health
• Developmental Psychology research project (both terms)
• Advanced developmental psychology (required option)AND an option from (indicative choices):
• Cognitive neuropsychology
• Cyberpsychology
• Drugs and addictive behavior
• Health psychology
• Occupational psychology
• Psychology of belief
• Psychology of choice
• Counseling Psychology

Employability

We’ll provide you with a clear potential route into professional psychology. But this degree – with its strong, practical elements – will also strengthen your profile if you decide to pursue a career in a range of related areas of work. These areas will be those involving children, babies, or adolescents. This opens up a wide variety of careers to you such as teaching, counseling work with young people or families, social work, youth work, nursery management, speech, and language therapy, or other careers in the field of education. As well as covering specific areas of psychology, counseling and early childhood studies, the BSc (Hons) Child Psychology degree provides training in data collection and analysis, communication skills and reports writing, ICT skills, and interpersonal awareness. It, therefore, offers you an excellent basis for developing a career in areas not directly related to psychology.