Child psychologist-consultant - course 240,000 rubles. from Talentsy, training 1.5 years, date November 30, 2023.

Basic course

Module 1. Introduction to the profession of psychologist-consultant

Theory

Dive into the basics of psychology, learn about its origins and popular psychological practices.

Improve your personal skills that are useful in your work as a practicing psychologist.

You will learn:

• content of the professional activity of a psychologist-consultant,
• ethical principles of work of a psychologist-consultant
• history of psychology and psychological counseling,
• popular areas of psychological counseling

Practice in the module

Workshop “Introduction to the profession of psychologist-consultant”

You will get to know the participants of the study group, master the format of group psychological work, its features and rules.

In mini-lectures, exercises, discussions and homework, you will begin to form the thinking of a consulting psychologist: the ability listening to oneself and the ability to hear others, observation, sensitivity, the ability to separate fact from affect and systemic reflection; emotional intelligence, empathy, psychological intelligence and systemic reflection.

Module 2. Brain and human behavior

Theory

Learn more about the modern scientific view of the human psyche. What are the laws governing perception, attention, thinking, memory and emotions? and what role the brain and nervous system play in this.

You will learn:

• biological foundations of the human psyche and behavior,
• psychophysiological mechanisms of adaptation and coping with stress, modern high-tech methods of studying the brain, and the latest discoveries in the field of neuroscience,
• universal properties of perception, attention, memory, thinking, speech and mental states,
• psychology of consciousness and the unconscious,
• psychology of emotions and the nature of empathy.

Practice

Seminar on general psychology

Let’s make complex points from the lecture material clear. You will be able to ask your own questions about the lectures or the topic in general, connecting theory and personal experience.

From each topic of general psychology we will draw specific practical conclusions for psychological counseling. You will see how you can use knowledge of general psychology in your work with clients and in your own development as a professional psychologist.

Seminar “Brain and Human Behavior”

At the first seminar, we will work with the brain atlas to consolidate and visualize information about the structure and functions of different parts of the nervous system.

At the second seminar, we will talk about myths about the functioning of the brain and touch on one of the most interesting questions in neuroscience - do nerve cells recover?

Module 3. Basics of psychological counseling

Theory

You will begin to look at psychological counseling through the eyes of a professional. Understand its goals and objectives; see at what stage the advisory conversation is; guess what question should be asked to the client now; establish working contact with the client.

Improve your personal skills that are useful in the work of a practicing psychologist: the ability to set goals and move to them, the ability to recognize and resist manipulation, the ability to rely on one’s own personal resources.

Module topics:

• What is professional psychological counseling in Russia? Its differences from friendly support and psychotherapy
• Basic principles of psychological counseling
• Stages of a consultative conversation
• First consultation with a new client
• Professional empathy of a psychologist-consultant

Practice

Basics of psychological counseling

You will begin to master the professional skills of a consulting psychologist: establishing contact, questioning, empathic response, formulating a contract, testing hypotheses.

Workshop "Development of personal competencies of a psychologist-consultant"

You will continue to develop the personal qualities and soft-skills necessary for a practicing psychologist.

At the workshop, we will examine the topics of goal setting, managing one’s own activities, as well as those barriers that “prevent” us from moving along the intended path in life.

Learn to resist manipulation, find and use the resources of your personality.

Module 4. Personality psychology and basics of psychological diagnostics

Theory

Learn to analyze a person’s inner world using psychodiagnostics to help with problems that cause people to turn to psychologists.

Form a professional view of a person’s personality. After all, understanding the client’s personality is the cornerstone of any area of ​​consulting.

You will learn:

• fundamental principles of personality psychology,
• methods for diagnosing and developing personality resources,
• personality models that underlie the most recognized approaches to psychological counseling,
• distinctive features of professional diagnostic techniques,
• basic principles of psychodiagnostics,
• diagnostic techniques suitable for the work of a practicing psychologist.

Practice in the module

Workshop on psychodiagnostics.

You will become familiar with the rules for constructing and interpreting psychodiagnostic techniques. You will understand how much you can trust the diagnostic results and how to use them in the counseling process.

Gain experience working with test and psychosemantic techniques. You will learn how to select and where to look for psychodiagnostic tools, as well as how to distinguish a real technique from a fake.

Seminar Personality in psychological counseling:

At the seminar we will consider the main problems of personality psychology in the context of psychological counseling.

How not to get lost in the variety of personality theories? What exactly does a consulting psychologist need to know about personality? What is a fully functioning personality? Is it possible to combine different approaches in work? How does the process of psychological counseling affect a person? We will discuss these and other questions at this seminar.

Module 5. Developmental psychology in counseling

Theory

Immerse yourself in the development of the human psyche throughout his life: from infancy to old age.

Learn to take into account the client’s age in psychological consultation: understand typical problems, limitations and opportunities, understand the direction of potential growth of the client’s personality, select a work style based on age client.

Module topics

• How the human psyche develops throughout life.
• The concept of "age crises". Why are they necessary for the psyche, and what to do with them?
• Features of consulting clients of different ages

Practice in the module

Seminar “Age Psychology”

During the lesson, you will have the opportunity to summarize your knowledge of developmental psychology and analyze the characteristics of each age period. Using case examples, trace the line of personality development, starting from adolescence and ending with silver.

Module 6. Family psychology and sexuality psychology

Theory

You will form a professional view on family problems in order to help clients, relying not on your personal experience, but on a balanced professional position.

A family consultant effectively works with such problems as relationships between spouses, child-parent relationships, divorce, difficulty building long-term relationships, emotional disturbances and behavioral problems children.

You will explore the development of sexuality, gender education, the basics of help with sexual problems in adulthood and dispel myths about sexology.

You will learn:

• basics of a systematic approach to family analysis,
• psychology of parenting,
• ideas about harmonious relationships and forms of deviations in marital and parent-child relationships,
• fundamentals of the psychology of sexuality.

Practice

Seminar “Psychological work with families”

You will explore your own myths and attitudes in the field of family, and practice looking at relationship problems from the perspective of a psychological consultant.

Module 7. Fundamentals of Clinical Psychology

Theory

Use the fundamentals of a clinical approach to better understand the client's problem and personality.

Learn to determine the boundaries of your capabilities: what you can help a person with as a consultant psychologist, and what it is better to consult a doctor or clinical psychologist with. To improve your work efficiency and the client's quality of life.

You will learn:

• you will define the concept of norm and non-norm in psychology,
• study mental disorders of different levels of severity, and understand the capabilities and boundaries of the work of a consulting psychologist,
• learn the diagnostic criteria for mental disorders and learn to understand in which case it is important to recommend that the client consult a clinical specialist or psychiatrist,
• get acquainted with the clinical and psychological concept of psychosomatics.

Practice

Seminar “Clinical Psychology”

You will have the opportunity to discuss and clarify important points from the lectures for you, and ask questions of interest in a safe group environment. See examples of the features of clinical thinking and how it can be used in counseling.

Seminar on neuropsychology

At the first seminar on neuropsychology, we will talk about executive functions, which play a critical role in our social life. Let's do short exercises to identify and develop these functions.

The second seminar on neuropsychology is devoted to interhemispheric asymmetry. You will learn why a person needs specialization of the brain hemispheres, how left-handed people differ from right-handed people, and how to determine your asymmetry profile.

Module 8. Crisis psychological assistance

Theory

Learn to recognize acute psychological crises and master ways to provide psychological support to clients.

Module topics:

• Extreme situations and emergency psychological assistance
• Psychological assistance for suicidal risks
• The concept and types of crises in psychology
• Short-term crisis intervention

Module 9. Modern modalities of counseling

Theory

Explore in theory and practice the main modalities (directions) of psychological counseling.

Choose a consulting modality for further specialization.

Integrate ideas and methods from various areas into your practice.

You will learn the basics:

• client-centered approach
• existential-humanistic direction
• cognitive behavioral psychotherapy,
• Gestalt approach,
• psychoanalytic direction,
• art therapy,
• body-oriented approach,
• coaching

Practice

At workshops on approaches to counseling, you will examine in detail individual topics from the lectures, you will be able to ask the teacher your own questions, and you will connect theory with personal experience.

You will form an idea of ​​this approach to counseling and try out some of the techniques of working as a psychologist-consultant in it.

The time allotted for questions will allow you to clarify the points that interest you as much as possible with a psychologist - practice. We discuss each exercise, thinking about what requests and what clients we can use them with.

Module 10. Starting practice as a consulting psychologist

Theory

Gain experience in individual and group psychological work, remove the psychological barrier in front of the client.

Develop your own individual consulting style.

You will learn:

• methods for preventing professional burnout,
• ways to increase the effectiveness of a psychologist-consultant,
• a diagram of professional self-analysis of the consultation,
• learn to work in an intervision and supervision group of fellow psychologists.

Practice

Workshop of psychological counseling. Practical work in a group

Practical classes are aimed at developing the professional competencies of a consulting psychologist.

You will learn to observe and analyze the course of a consultation at the content level, at the level of the relationship between the consultant and the client, at the level of the internal experiences of the consultant and the client.

Strengthen the skills of establishing and maintaining contact, formulating hypotheses, analyzing consultations and professional self-analysis.

Learn to give appropriate, ethical and meaningful feedback.

Overcome the “fear of the first consultation.”

You will form a group of colleagues in which you will be able to receive professional support and analyze client cases even after completing your training.

Module 11. Personal brand of a psychologist-consultant

Successful bloggers and entrepreneurial psychologists will talk about personal branding as a promotion tool and the rules positioning yourself on social networks, maintaining accounts and other components of promoting yourself as a professional in field of psychology.

Specialization

Module 1. Introduction to the profession of child psychologist

You will learn what a child psychologist does. You will also understand issues of professional ethics.

Module 2. Child personality psychology

You will learn what a child’s personality consists of, what factors and conditions influence the development of a person’s personality. And how to create a developmental environment

Module topics:

• What is “personal development”?
• Personality structure
• What influences personality development?
• Creating a developmental environment

Module 3. Psychology of child development

You will learn about the factors and conditions that influence the development of a person’s personality. And, of course, you will master the variety of approaches to personality development in ontogenesis and the most popular theories.

Module topics:

• Periodization of a child’s mental development
• Variety of approaches to personality development in ontogenesis
• Psychoanalysis Z. Freud
• Ego psychology E. Erickson
• Cognitive approach J. Piaget
• Cultural-historical concept of L.S. Vygotsky
• The theory of separation-individuation M. Mahler
• Attachment theory by J. Bowlby

Module 4. Earlier childhood

You will begin to gain an in-depth understanding of newborn, infant, and preschooler development. You will understand how to help so that the child develops according to his age and learn to help during crises of 1 and 3 years.

Module topics:

• Newborn and infancy
• Year 1 crisis
• Cognitive and motor development
• Social and emotional development
• Development of independence and arbitrariness
• Crisis of 3 years
• Basic queries in consulting

Module 5. Preschool age

You will learn how to help with adaptation to kindergarten, as well as determine readiness for school. Understand the principles and rules of sex education, as well as become familiar with basic counseling requests.

Module topics:

• Cognitive and motor development
• Social and emotional development
• Adaptation to kindergarten
• School readiness
• Crisis of 7 years
• Principles and rules of sex education
• Basic queries in consulting

Module 6. Pediatric neuropsychology

You will learn what a neuropsychologist does, understand what the central nervous system consists of and how it functions, as well as what interhemispheric asymmetry is.
Learn to conduct neuropsychological diagnostics, identify deviant development and select correction for each individual case.

Module topics:

• What does a neuropsychologist do?
• Structure of the central nervous system
• Ontogenesis of the central nervous system
• Types of deviant development
• Interhemispheric asymmetry
• Theory of replacement ontogenesis A.V. Semenovich
• Options for regulatory development
• Neuropsychological diagnostics
• Neuropsychological correction

Module 7. Child-parent relationships

After this module, you will clearly understand what styles of parent-child relationships there are, what approaches to education there are, how all this affects the child’s development and how this can be corrected.

You will learn how to advise parents and make their life with their child easier, more comfortable and happier.

Module topics:

• Family structure
• Styles of parent-child relationships
• The influence of parent-child relationships on child development
• Modern approaches to education
• Possibilities for correcting parent-child relationships
• Ways to improve parental competence
• Consulting parents on issues of parent-child relationships

Module 8. Basics of psychological work with preschool children

You will master the main skills of a child psychologist and understand the principles and stages of psychological counseling.

By the end of the module, you will be able to draw up a program for individual psychological development and select psychodiagnostics. You will also learn to work with children both individually and in a group.

And to consolidate your knowledge in practice, we will simulate a consultation with a preschooler right in class.

And we’ll definitely talk about the ethical and legal aspects of working with children.

Module topics:

• Principles of child psychological counseling
• Stages of psychological counseling
• Skills of a child psychologist-consultant
• Theoretical approaches to developmental psychological counseling
• Model of consultation with a preschooler
• Individual psychological development program
• Psychodiagnostics in the work of a child psychologist
• Criteria for choosing psychodiagnostic techniques
• Group forms of psychological work
• Ethical and legal aspects of working with children

Module 9. Effective areas of psychological work with children of early and preschool age

In this module you will become familiar with the variety of areas in developmental psychological counseling:

• Child psychoanalysis
• Play therapy
• Art therapy and fairy tale therapy
• Body-oriented therapy
• Gestalt therapy

Module 10. Practical module/modern techniques in child psychology

In this module you will learn about how early intervention affects a child’s development, and also get acquainted with modern methods of early development:

• Neurotrainings
• Sand therapy
• Neurographics
• Family soft school
• Playback theater

Module 11. Work of a child psychologist with typical requests

In this module you will learn how to work with the most common requests:

• Working with fears
• Correction of aggressive behavior
• Speech development
• Difficulty communicating with peers
• Development of independence and arbitrariness
• Difficulties in adaptation

Module 12. Fundamentals of clinical and pathopsychology of childhood

You will learn what a child clinical psychologist does, understand the concept of “norm,” how to distinguish it from pathology, and what types of organic brain lesions there are.

You will be able to work with complex issues such as:

• Study of mental disorders in childhood
• Speech development disorders
• Perceptual dysfunction
• Violation of visual-constructive activity
• Autism Spectrum Disorders
• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
• Children's psychosomatics
• Affective disorders in children
• Body perception disorders
• Psychotic disorders in childhood
• Neuroses in children

In addition, you will learn about the possibilities and limitations of working with a psychologist in clinical disorders, as well as how and when to interact with a child psychotherapist

Module 13. Consulting parents on child development issues

If you have a fear of counseling, it will disappear in this module.

You will learn HOW to talk to a parent about a child, especially if there are any developmental disorders.
You will understand what needs to be done and what will only ruin the whole process. Learn how to competently integrate parents into psychological work with a child