Teaching

Teaching

Laboratory / Fieldwork

Introduction to Module, Models of Psychological Development, similarities and dissimilarities, Contributors to and Influences on Psychological Development

cytogenetic & molecular genetic laboratories SGHMS

Cognitive development and intellectual disabilities, general and specific

Early Years Centre, Siward Road, Tooting

Social and language development, and the autistic spectrum

WORKSHOP: Intellectual disability

Development of attentional skills, impulse control and freedom from distractibility

Southwest London & St. George’s Child Mental Health Learning Disability Service, Clare House, St, George’s Hospital, covering Clinical Psychology, Speech & Language Therapy & Cognitive-Behavioural Management approaches

Specific developmental disorders

WORKSHOP: Autistic spectrum disorders

Contributors to development: genetic & other biological

London Borough of Merton Education Authority Special Needs Department/ London Borough of Wandsworth Social Services Disability Team

Contributors to development: psychological

Bradstow Residential School for students with severe learning difficulties and autistic spectrum disorders

Contributors to development: social

WORKSHOP: Attention deficit disorders

Attachment and its disorders

MENCAP

Intervention & support for developmental disorders

WORKSHOP: Specific developmental delays

Prevention in developmental disorders

Lecture topics

1. Sociological perspectives in health and illness

2. Psychological perspectives in health and illness

3. Social inequalities in health

4. Intelligence

5. Social support and social integration

6. Theory & assessment of pain

7. Psychological interventions

8. Stress and coping

9. The social experience of chronic illness and disability

10. Lay health beliefs

11. Conditioning and learning

12. Sociology of mental health and illness

13. Patient satisfaction and treatment adherence

14. Doctor-Patient relationships

15. Clinical Reasoning 1

16. Theorising risky health behaviour

17. Health behaviour change

18. Clinical Reasoning 2

19. Memory

20. Personality and disease

21. The social organisation of death and dying

Lecture topics

1. Theory & assessment of pain

2. Stress and coping

3. Psychoimmunology

4. Physical activity promotion

5. Evidenced- based approach to Smoking cessation

6. Health behaviour change

7. Psychology of accidents

8. Personality and disease

Lecture/workshop topics

1. Introducing health behaviour and health behaviour change.
Models of health behaviour change

2. Adherence to medical advice and treatment regimens.
Workshop: Increasing adherence to medical treatment.

3. Cognitive techniques for changing behaviour.
Workshop: using cognitive techniques to change health behaviour.

4. Behavioural techniques for changing health behaviour.
Workshop: using behavioural techniques to change health behaviour.

5. Stress, coping and health.

6. Experimental analysis of behaviour.
Workshop: experimental analysis of behaviour.

7. Overview of stress management techniques.

8. Psychophysiological methods.
Workshop: stress management 1.

9. Work stress.
Workshop: stress management 2.

10. Module review and feedback.
Workshop: stress management 3.