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Eligibility Criteria

High School Diploma, GED or equiv. International Education

Credit Hours

84 Hours

Course Duration

1 Year (Self-Paced) Program

Courses Offered

14

Courses Offered In ASSOCIATE TO BACHELORS DEGREE

  • Courses Name

  • Courses Description

  • Credit Hours

  • Introduction to Developmental Psychology

  • The developmental psychology course guides you in learning about youself and interacting with the society. Its five major themes, human communication, growth dynamics, feelings and emotions, human relationships, and leading a quality life-provide a thought-provoking look at how psychology influences personal development.

  • 6 Credits

  • Fundamentals of Biological and Cognitive Psychology

  • Course provides a comprehensive, approachable treatment of current cognitive psychology. Neuro-cognitive evidence is integrated throughout, and course balances empirical evidence, theory, and explanations of important points with sufficient detail so that you learn not only cognitive psychology, but also how experiments are designed and interpreted and how theories are tested. 

  • 6 Credits

  • Introduction to Social Psychology

  • This course offers a broad introduction to social psychology, the scientific study of human social influence and interaction. You will explore various ways people think about, affect, and relate to one another. Goals of this course are to improve understanding of social psychological explanations for social influence and interaction.

  • 6 Credits

  • Introduction to Quantitative Psychology

  • The course uses well-established approach emphasizing the intuitive, deemphasizing mathematical, and explaining everything in direct, simple language but also going beyond these principles to further your understanding. By using definitional formulas to emphasize concepts of statistics, you will work problems in a way that keeps them constantly aware of primary logic. 

  • 6 Credits

  • Introduction to Abnormal Psychology

  • This course is an introduction to research, history, and theories of abnormal psychology. A major emphasis in the course is to examine selected categories of psychological disorders such as: anxiety, depression, schizophrenia, personality disorders, eating disorders, and substance abuse disorders.

  • 6 Credits

  • Foundations of Psychology

  • This course presents a scientific, accurate, and thorough overview of essential concepts of psychology in engaging language that you would be able to easily comprehend. Topics covered are: science of psychology, biological basis of behavior, sensation and perception, learning, memory and cognition, motivation and emotion, life-span development, therapies, and social psychology. 

  • 6 Credits

  • Introduction to Personality Psychology

  • This course is designed to prepare you to apply theories of personality to understanding particular individuals who you may encounter in professional work and in you personal life; this engaging course provides an overview of major classic and current theories of personality, together with clear explanation of the latest research.

  • 6 Credits

  • Fundamentals of Physiological Psychology

  • Thoughtfully organized, this course offers scholarly, yet accessible coverage and effectively emphasizes dynamic interaction between biology and behavior. Course incorporates basic properties of nervous system and endocrine system since they provide fundamental building blocks of behavior. It discusses sensory systems, motor systems and information processing that occurs between the two.

  • 6 Credits

  • Counseling Psychology and Children

  • Counseling, Psychology and Children course takes a multidimensional approach to counseling children. This approach: 1) capitalizes on the relationships children build with parents, teachers, and other adults; 2) looks at children's developmental processes; 3) examines multicultural influences upon them; and 4) takes into consideration the variety of intervention models available.

  • 6 Credits

  • Introduction to Counseling Psychology

  • Course present practical examples and discussions of all of the major facets of counseling in a wide variety of counselors' work settings. The course includes a thorough treatment of techniques of assessment, including an overview of standardized testing and discussion of subjective approaches to appraisal, observation, self-reporting, and others.

  • 6 Credits

  • Introduction to Group Counseling

  • This course examines all of the essential skills required to be an effective leader of variety of groups in variety of settings. It explores history of group therapy work and development of groups–how they grow, change, and differ. It addresses specifics of working with children, adolescents, adults, and elderly.

  • 6 Credits

  • Introduction to Counseling Theory

  • This course provides clear, succinct coverage of the core concepts of all of the major contemporary theories of counseling and psychotherapy, including separate chapters on solution-focused and on feminist theory. Each theory topic begins by discussing the major theorist or theorists responsible for the theory.

  • 6 Credits

  • Family Therapy

  • This course covers all aspects of working with families. It begins by explaining differences between functional and dysfunctional families. It covers history of family therapy, multicultural aspects of family therapy, ways of working with various types of families, ethical and legal issues involved family therapy, and ways of assessing families.

  • 6 Credits

  • School Counseling

  • This course reflects all the crucial subject matter of what it takes to be a school counselor. This course is designed as a means for you to lend your voice to the issues confronting school counselors and, most importantly, to chart the course for invention in school counseling.

  • 6 Credits
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Introduction to developmental psychology

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Identity
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Human communication
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Growth dynamics
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Human relationships
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Emotions and feelings
    A quality life

Fundamentals of biological and cognitive psychology

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Cognitive psychology : an introduction
    The cognitive science approach
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Perception and pattern recognition
    Attention
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Short-term working memory
    Learning and remembering
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Knowing
    Using knowledge in the real world
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Language
    Comprehension: written and spoken language
    Decisions, judgments, and reasoning
    Problem solving

Introduction to social psychology

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Theories and methods in social psychology.
    Person perception: forming impressions of others.
    Social cognition: understanding the social world.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The self: learning about the self.
    Attitudes and attitude change.
    Prejudice.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Social influence.
    Interpersonal attraction.
    Personal relationships.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Behavior in groups.
    Gender.
    Helping behavior.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Aggression.
    Social psychology and health.
    Social psychology and the law.

Introduction to quantitative psychology

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Displaying the order in a group of numbers using tables and graphs
    - the mean, variance, standard deviation, and
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Correlation and prediction
    Some key ingredients for inferential statistics: the normal curve, sample versus population, and probability
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Introduction to hypothesis testing
    Hypothesis tests with means of samples
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Making sense of statistical significance: effect size and statistical power
    Introduction to the
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The
    - introduction to the analysis of variance
    - chi-square tests and strategies when population distributions are not normal
    Applying statistical methods in your own research project

Introduction to abnormal psychology

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Examples and definitions of abnormal behavior
    Causes of abnormal behavior
    Treatment of psychological disorders
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Classification and assessment of abnormal behavior
    Mood disorders and suicide
    Anxiety disorders
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Acute and post-traumatic stress disorders, dissociative disorders, and somatoform disorders
    Stress and physical health
    Personality disorders
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Eating disorders
    Substance use disorders
    Sexual and gender identity disorders
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Schizophrenic disorders
    Dementia, delirium, and amnestic disorders

Foundations of psychology

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The science of psychology
    The biological basis of behavior
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Sensation and perception
    States of consciousness
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Learning
    Memory
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Cognition and mental abilities
    Motivation and emotion
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Life-span development
    Personality
    Stress and health psychology
    Psychological disorders
    Therapies
    Social psychology

Introduction to personality psychology

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Introduction to personality theory
    Freud: classical psychoanalysis
    Jung: analytical psychology
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Adler: individual psychology
    Erikson: psychosocial development
    Horney and relational theory: interpersonal psychoanalytic theory
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Allport: personological trait theory
    Cattell and the big five: factor analytic trait theories
    Evolution, eysenck, gray, and others: biological theories
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Skinner and staats: the challenge of behaviorism
    Dollard and miller: psychoanalytic learning theory
    Mischel and bandura: cognitive social learning theory
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Kelly: personal construct theory
    Rogers: person-centered theory
    Maslow: need hierarchy theory
    Buddhist psychology: lessons from eastern culture
    Conclusion

Fundamentals of Physiological Psychology

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Introduction
    Structure and functions of cells of the nervous system
    Structure of the nervous system
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Psychopharmacology
    Methods and strategies of research
    Vision
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Audition, the body senses, and the chemical senses
    Control of movement
    Sleep and biological rhythms
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Reproductive behahvior
    Emotion
    Ingestive behavior
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Learning and memory
    Human communication
    Neurological disorders
    Schizophrenia and the affective disorders
    Anxiety disorders, autistic disorder, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and stress disorders
    Drug abuse

Counseling Psychology and Children

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    A multidimensional approach to intervention with children.
    Professional, ethical, and legal issues.
    Contemporary issues: managed mental health care, brief therapies, and empirically supported therapies for children.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Assessment: the first step.
    Therapeutic interventions with children: art and science, process and outcome.
    Psychodynamic theory.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Psychodynamic interventions.
    Child-centered theory.
    Child-centered interventions.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Behavioral and cognitive-behavioral theory.
    Behavioral and cognitive-behavioral interventions.
    Family systems theory.
    Family systems interventions.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Consultation.
    Psychopharmacotherapy and other interventions for children.
    Integrated approaches tointervention.

Introduction to Counseling Psychology

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Historical perspectives.
    What do counselors do?
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Where counselors work.
    Individual counseling.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Group techniques for counselors.
    Multicultural counseling.
    Human assessment for counseling.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Counseling for career planning and decision making.
    The counselor as developmental and educational consultant.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Prevention and wellness.
    Counseling program development and management.
    Counseling and technology.

Introduction to Group Counseling

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Introduction to Counseling Theory

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Theories and therapies.
    Psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic theories.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Adlerian therapy.
    Existential therapy.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Person-centered therapy.
    Gestalt therapy.
    Reality therapy.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Behavioral therapy.
    Cognitive and cognitive-behavioral therapy.
    Rational emotive behavior therapy.
    Transactional analysis.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Feminist therapy.
    Bowen family systems therapy.
    Strategic family therapy.
    Solution-focused therapy.
    Comparing theories and therapies.

Family Therapy

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Individual and family life cycles
    Healthy and dysfunctional families
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Rationale and history of family therapy
    The process of family therapy
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Couple and marriage enrichment and therapy
    Psychodynamic and bowen family therapies
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Experiential family therapies
    Behavioral and cognitivebehavioral family therapies
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Structural family therapy
    Strategic and systemic family therapies
    Solution-focused and narrative family therapies
    Working with single-parent families
    Working with remarried families
    Working with culturally diverse families
    Working with substance-related disorders, domestic violence, child abuse, and infidelity
    Ethical, legal, and professional issues in families
    Research and assessment in family therapy

School Counseling

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The school counseling profession
    School counseling and the challenge of history
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    A comprehensive model for professional school counseling: a balanced approach
    Accountability in school counseling
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Legal and ethical responsibilities in school counseling
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Advocacy in school counseling
    Leadership and collaboration in school counseling
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Prevention programming in school counseling: serving all students proactively
    Individual and group counseling: responding to selected needs in schools
    Referral and coordination in school counseling
    School counselor consulting: a bridge between prevention and intervention
    Assessment in school counseling
    Inventing a school counseling program online