Course Description & Objectives:
Objectives:
- At the end of the course, students should demonstrate an understanding of the basic concepts of psychology
- Students will be able to describe the theoretical basis of cognitive psychology
- Students should be able to evaluate the link between psychology and SLT
- By the end of the course, students will be able to describe the application of cognitive psychology to intervention approaches within speech and language therapy
- Students should be able to apply concepts in medical sociology to intervention within speech and language therapy in rural and urban situations
Content:
- Concepts of development and learning during different stages of life.
- Concepts of consciousness, memory, attention, motivation and emotion
- Concepts of intelligence and personality
- Challenging behaviour – definition and management
- Concepts of mental health and medical sociology
- Brief introduction to Cognitive psychology & Cognitive neuro-psychology
- Processes and impairments of attention, memory, language, reading writing and planned movement
- Clinical neuropsychological assessment – in speech and language therapy
- Psychological intervention approaches
Stages and classification of socialisation, Social rehabilitation
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