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Infant and Parent Relationship (PSYT90027)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5Not available in 2019
Overview
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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
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Recommended background knowledge
Clinical experience in a perinatal or child health or mental health or child welfare setting
Preferably working with, or anticipating working with expectant parents, babies, toddlers and their families and parent-infant dyads.
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Assessment
Additional details
- Essay of 4,000 words due end of semester (worth 80%)
- Written short answer questions as a take-home task, due end of semester (worth 20%)
- Participation during class due end of semester (hurdle requirement)
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Dates & times
Not available in 2019
Time commitment details
170 hours total
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
- Zeanah, C.H. Handbook of Infant Mental Health, 3rd edition
- Thomson Salo F.S. & Paul,C., The Baby as Subject Volume 2, Stonnington Press.
- Subject notes
It is required that applicants have a Working With Children Check before commencing this subject.
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Master of Mental Health Science - Available to Study Abroad and/or Study Exchange Students
This subject is available to students studying at the University from eligible overseas institutions on exchange and study abroad. Students are required to satisfy any listed requirements, such as pre- and co-requisites, for enrolment in the subject.
Last updated: 3 November 2022