6 Psychology and Behavioral Science Advanced Diploma Programs

Confederation College’s Child and Youth Care (CYC) advanced diploma program will give you the skills and knowledge needed to relate to, engage with and empower vulnerable children and their families. Through a wide range of courses including trends in child and youth care, sociology of family, youth substance use and marginalized youth and crisis experiences, you will be provided with a solid foundation to engage relationally while being developmentally responsive, trauma-sensitive and self-reflective. You will also gain a strong understanding of issues of oppression and racism, along with approaches to support health and wellness for Indigenous youth.

The three-year Child and Youth Care Ontario College Advanced Diploma program prepares you to support vulnerable children, youth, and families with complex needs. Learn a wide range of prevention and intervention strategies that foster positive change and healthy development. Assess the strengths and needs of young people and families and develop interventions to meet those needs. Apply the principles of relational practice, life space engagement, and anti-oppressive practice while working with children, youth, and families. In classes, you learn practical and theoretical concepts and then apply them in field placements.

If you want to work in the growing and highly specialized field of applied behaviour analysis, the Behavioural Science program is where you want to be. For over four decades, the Behavioural Science program has trained students to work front-line with a wide range of client populations in a variety of areas within the human services field. Students are taught how to develop and implement behavioural interventions to teach skills to clients and/or reduce challenging behaviours.

The Gestalt Institute of Guadalajara gives special importance to the training of psychotherapists, who are expected to have all the knowledge, personal experience, and supervised practice to seriously and efficiently carry out this delicate activity. As Gestalt is psychotherapy that reaches deep levels of inner movement in patients, it is essential that professionals who enter the Specialty have previously sufficient bases in the knowledge of the human being, to be able to understand during their training as psychotherapists the internal dynamics of the patient and thus apply the appropriate technique at the right time.

Graduates of the Child and Youth Care program engage with children, youth, and their families in their everyday lives, use a relational approach to developing therapeutic relationships and build on their strengths and capacities to promote optimal development and facilitate positive changes.

This is a Level 5, two-year, Full-Time course geared towards a fast-growing sports coaching industry career. The course aims to introduce students to the theory and application of sports coaching in sporting environments.