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Infant and Parent Relationship (PSYT90027)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)
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This subject will focus on the theoretical foundations of all aspects of infant development and the development of infant-parent relationships.
Students should note that attending and undertaking activities in this subject will not be possible without at current Working with Children Check.
Intended learning outcomes
- To provide students with knowledge of the historical and contemporary theories of infant development
- To provide students with knowledge about contemporary infant care practices
- To inform students of key developmental infant psychology literature and research on infant's capacities
- To introduce students to the empirical methodologies and research paradigms used to observe and study infant development and interactions.
- To inform students of key psychodynamic and psychoanalytic concepts/models for understanding the infant's and family's experience.
- To provide students with a knowledge of attachment theory and contemporary attachment research measures
Generic skills
- Students will be able to recognise and describe infant developmental progress in all domains including cognition, perception, language, psychosomatic functioning, and emotional regulation
- Students will be able to recognise and describe infant emotional and social development
- Students will be able to recognise and generate plausible and evidence informed hypotheses about the subjective emotional experience of infants and toddlers
- Students will be able to critically evaluate different theoretical models for understanding infant behaviour and infant parent interactions
- Students will be able to discuss infant behaviour from both developmental and relational theoretical perspectives
- Students will be able to recognise and generate plausible and evidence informed hypotheses about the dynamics of infant-parent relationships
Last updated: 3 November 2022