PSY2201 – The development of social adaptation: Stress and resilience
Schedule, syllabus and examination date
Course content
The course focuses on both normal and deviant psychological development. Childhood resilience is the phenomenon of positive adaptation despite significant life adversities, trauma and risks. Lectures will focus on development of the fetus, infancy, childhood and adolescence. Investigating risks and resilience have caused scientists to rethink their prior assumption about the causes and courses of adaptation and psychopathology. Lectures will touch upon the history of childhood and resilience research, and discuss challenges of future bio-genetics and research ethics.
Learning outcome
Aims of knowledge:
You will obtain a deeper insight into children’s psychological development. You will be able to recall factors of both normative and psychopathological development. Your skills in applying critical thinking will be approved of. In addition, you get some exercise in presenting topic of modern developmental psychopathology.
Aims of learning:
? To describe and identify risk factors and vulnerability for deviant and psychopathological development in pregnancy, infancy, childhood and adolescence
? To understand what is meant by protective factors in the individual, the family, the peer group, the community and culture which contribute to development of resilience in spite of life adversities
? To analyse developmental processes that contribute to normative adaptation or psychopathology
It is crucial for the student to apply critical think