An Introduction to Psychology

Where do Criminal Psychologists actually work?

We are well underway with the 2014 commonwealth games in Glasgow, with incredible performances from representatives of the home nations. The medal hauls are growing with England currently leading the medal table. NCC have discounted their sport’s psychology course in honour of this fantastic event.

This Sports Psychology Diploma course focuses on the scientific study of people and their behaviors in sport contexts and the practical application of that knowledge. Each module of this Level 3 Sports Psychology Diploma course contains associated revision exercises and activity questions which are designed to allow students to demonstrate their underpinning knowledge and show how this can be applied in various contexts.

We hope England continue their great form and it is a successful games for all of the home nations. The UK’s sporting legacy from 2012 seems to be paying dividends, why don’t you get your best foot forward and leap into a sporting career?

Take a look at the full course Here.

Get an insight into the workings of the human brain with the NCC featured course for April.

NCC’s Psychology Diploma takes an in depth look at human behaviour, and how psychologists use a specific set of techniques to comprehend behaviours and the mental processes that lead to our behaviours.
Some of the topics included in this course include, the science of psychology, social influence and applying psychology.

If your interest is peaked by the way in which our species behave, this course provides a wide variety of theories surrounding psychology.

The course demonstrates the social influences on behaviour and how much society can shape the way in which we behave. Social psychologists tend to focus on the situational factors that determine how we respond to our environment. They are broadly interested in addressing the question of what it is about a particular situation that leads us to behave in a particular way, especially when our actual behaviour seems to go against how we might think we’d act if faced with the situation. Do you act the same on your own as you do with other people around? The answer is probably not, but why?

Personality is also explored in terms of the way we act, think and feel. The knowledge looks at how researchers attempt to measure personality and also how they try to explain why there seem to be so many different types of personality. What makes you, you? Characteristics including thoughts and feelings, as well as physical actions are the main aspects that make up your personality. The idea that we each have an individual personality in ingrained in our everyday thinking. “Oh, it’s his personality… he’s just like that!” We might say in order to explain to ourselves why somebody has acted in the way they have. But what do we mean when we say this? And how much does the concept of personality help us to explain people’s behaviour?

To find the answers to these questions and more, get the NCC Psychology Diploma now from the incredible price of just £272, which includes 12 month tutor support and final certification.

NCC Home Learning’s Child Psychology Diploma has received a fantastic response from current students.

The students studying with NCC Home Learning have been leaving extremely positive reviews regarding the Child Psychology Diploma.  They have even stated how the course has helped them continue on to university and has furthered their careers.

L. Blay has recently completed the Child Psychology Diploma and said: “Thank you for your support during these 12 months – I have loved every minute of my course and am pleased to say that it has benefited both me and my children”

K. Prinsloo, a Child Psychology Student also stated: “I would just like to say thanks for everything and I am actually studying child psychology at University level now, I enjoyed the module a lot and it definitely helped me make the choice to take it further”

The NCFE Level 3 Child Psychology Diploma provides the skills needed to help children reach their full potential and become happy and balanced adults.

The course is ideal for anyone working with or around children and can even help parents with their own children.

NCC Home Learning aim to provide the option of distance learning for everyone, they enable you to train around your busy life style, making it easier to educate yourself or staff members.

NCC Home Learning also offer a number of Teaching Assistant and Child Care courses among other home learning courses suitable for anyone wanting to progress in their career or further their current knowledge.

If you require further information on our Child Psychology Diploma then please visit our Child Care and Teaching Assistant Faculty.

Every criminal act is committed by a criminal and in seeking to understand the workings of the criminal mind and its motivations, investigators have increasingly turned for assistance to what is now popularly known as psychological profiling.  This investigative discipline is based on the belief that a criminal does not just leave physical clues at the scene of the crime but that he also leaves psychological clues.  By careful examination and consideration of these clues the skilled profiler endeavours to build up a picture of the likely offender.  A skilled profiler combines common sense, observation, background knowledge and geographical factors with a sound knowledge of psychology in his efforts to profile a killer.

Module 1 gives an introduction to profiling, this is an essential part of the course and requires concentrated study if the learner is to gain maximum benefit from working through the case studies.

Our first case study takes us to Argentina and Buenos Aires of the early 1900s and a study of the infamous ‘Big Eared Pest’, the child killer Santos Godino.

In case study 2 we will go back to Germany in the 1930s and examine the case of Peter Kurten, ‘The Monster of Dusseldorf’, and the groundbreaking work of Professor Carl Berg.

In case study 3 we move to the United States of the 1940s and the incredibly accurate profile of George Metesky, ‘The Mad Bomber of New York’ by Manhattan psychiatrist Dr. James Brussel.

Case study 4 brings us to war time London and Sussex in England in the 1940s and the case of John George Haigh, ‘The Acid Bath Murderer’.

Case study 5 takes us back to the United States where we once again meet Dr. James Brussel in the investigation of a series of murders committed in Boston of the 1960s by Albert de Salvo, ‘The Boston Strangler’.

Case study 6 takes us back to Yorkshire of the 1970s where Dr. Stuart Kind helped to bring an end to the reign of terror of Peter Sutcliffe, ‘The Yorkshire Ripper’.

For case study 7 we return to the United States and Chicago of the 1970s where we encounter John Wayne Gacy and his alter-egos, Pogo and Patches the Clown and the gruesome murders of more than thirty young men and boys.

For case study 8 we return to London of the late 1970s and early 1980s, to Muswell Hill, London, where we examine the serial murders committed by Dennis Nilsen, ‘The Muswell Hill Killer’.

The old mill town of Hyde, Cheshire some five miles from the centre of Manchester provides the 1990s setting for case study 9 which examines the murderous medical practice of ‘Doctor Death’, alias Doctor Frederick Harold Shipman.
Our final case study takes us to Stirling, Scotland in 1996 where we encounter disgraced scout master and jobless shopkeeper, Thomas Hamilton, who in a murderous frenzy slaughtered sixteen children and a teacher at Dunblane Primary School.

At the end of each case study the learner is required to use the information contained in the study material and any other information they have collected, either from further reading, research on the internet or other media, to complete a profiling sheet.  The learner will then use this information to compile a detailed pen portrait of the offender(s) studied.

In the conclusion to this course we examine some of the differences in definition of and approach to profiling, and consider more recent developments such as computer aided geographic profiling.

At the end of this last module the learner is invited to carry out research in the media and on the internet to draw up a profile of Raoul Moat.

NCC Home Learning are pleased to have launched a brand new Child Psychology Diploma.

If you find children’s behaviour fascinating and would like to gain more insight into their intricate minds and emotions, then this course will appeal to you.

The Ascentis Level 3 Child Psychology Diploma will give you the skills needed to help children reach their full potential and become happy and balanced adults. This Child Psychology Diploma is the perfect and most insightful home study course to take to gather knowledge about how a child’s mind works and why they behave and react to situations as they do.

Modules include The First Year of Life, Psychologists and Theories, Preparing Children for Nursery/School and many more!  For full details on this brand new Child Psychology Diploma course, please click here.

“I would like to say many thanks to my tutor for their positive feedback during this course. My tutor’s replies with further examples have been of huge help in assisting me to move on with a good understanding of the previous subject and I have enjoyed cross referencing the modules and seeing how they link together.

Working in a police roll, this course has been of huge help to assist in my understanding and the valid arguments that go within the subject.

My academic focus from here on will be aimed at promotion and the NIE exam to develop my career however this course and the knowledge and thinking process I have gained from it will be of huge help in my future career plans.

Many thanks again.”

John Keerie – Criminal Psychology Diploma