Master degree program
Child Psychology

Child Psychology

QUALIFICATION

  • Scientific and pedagogical direction - Master of Social Sciences

MODEL OF GRADUATING STUDENT

1. Have a systematic vision of the historical aspects and conceptual foundations of theoretical, methodological, applied, sectoral approaches of the social sciences and humanities and the foundations of experimental work in in foreign and Kazakh psychology.
2. To operate with the concepts of pediatric neuropsychology and psychosomatics in the field of features of the development of higher mental functions, sensory and gnostic disorders, psychosomatic disorders of childhood and adolescence.
3. Possess a system of scientific categories and concepts that define anomaly, giftedness, talent, genius; the nature and structure of these phenomena, the features of their age formation, principles and methods of identification; their psychological correction and support.
4. To apply methods, procedures, techniques and techniques of psychodiagnostic, correctional and developmental, counseling and psychotherapy activities in family and individual practice (including in the field of child-parent relations).
5. To compile psychodiagnostic, medical and psychological, expert opinions and recommendations on the use of diagnostic data in psychological activities with children and adolescents.
6. To provide psychological assistance, support, psychocorrection and psychotherapy based on the use of psychotraining, gaming, art therapy, body-oriented and other psychotechnologies.
7. To develop and implement forms, methods and programs adequate to the problems of diagnostic, correctional, psychotherapeutic, training and preventive measures based on the modeling methodology for solving theoretical and applied socio-psychological problems of childhood and adolescence.
8. To create a design and program for psychological research and experiment using modern research methods, equipment, information technology, statistical methods of processing psychological data, theoretical models for predicting the properties of the objects under study.
9. To use the experience gained from foreign language information, innovative methods, technologies of training and development, monitoring and evaluation of achievements; non-traditional forms of conducting classes (including in a game and training form) for the successful organization of education and the formation of the personality of a graduate student.
10. Master the methods of organizing and managing professional activities and the work of various teams based on ethical principles, supervision; methods of making managerial decisions, including in non-standard situations

Program passport

Speciality Name
Child Psychology
Speciality Code
7M03116
Faculty
Philosophy and Political Science

disciplines

Children's Neuropsychology and Psychosomatics
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: integration of knowledge and ideas about neuropsychological and psychosomatic disorders; formation of practical diagnostic competencies in the field of neuropsychological development and psychosomatics of children and adolescents. The course is based on a neuropsychological approach to ensuring the mental and psychological health of children, focuses on the integration of knowledge and competencies in the main branches of pediatric clinical psychology.

Foreign Language (professional)
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form practical skills in various types of speech activity in a foreign language. The training course builds the ability to perceive, understand and translate information in the modern global space, participate in scientific events to test their own research. The discipline is aimed at improving competencies in accordance with international standards of foreign language education.

History and Philosophy of Science
  • Number of credits - 3
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form a holistic systemic understanding of philosophy as a special form of cognition of the world, its main sections, problems and methods of their study in the context of future professional activity. The training course forms the theoretical and methodological basis of research work.

Organization and planning of scientific research
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Рurpose: formation of a specialist’s research culture, research competence, as well as the theoretical, methodological and practical foundations for organizing research activities in the conditions of the development of science and the implementation of industrial and innovative development programs of the Republic of Kazakhstan; fundamentals of methodology and methods of scientific research, logic and structure of pedagogical research, scientific apparatus and research planning

Organizational and ethical aspects of psychological activity
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The main purpose: to form a systematic understanding of the ethical and organizational aspects of psychologists' work and psychological services. The course covers ethical dilemmas and ways to resolve them, risk assessment and management in psychologist-client relationships, work with special groups, and the psychologist's relationships with colleagues and employers. It also studies supervision, management, and other organizational issues related to the psychologist's professional activity.

Pedagogy of Higher Education
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability to teach in universities and colleges based on knowledge of higher school didactics, theory of education and management of education, analysis and self-assessment of teaching activities. The training course is aimed at studying the trends in the development of education and the Bologna process. The course will help you master teaching and curatorial skills, various strategies and methods of teaching and education.

Psychological counseling and psychotherapy of family and child
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: professional training for counseling and psychotherapeutic activities. The course systematizes the basic principles and approaches to counseling and psychotherapy of family and child, methods and techniques of counseling and psychotherapeutic activities; the main phenomena and problems are considered in the logic of the deployment of life phases of personal and family development.

Psychological expertise
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Рurpose: professional training for the expert activity of a practical psychologist and the formation of instrumental competencies for participation in the expert process in various systems (forensic-psychiatric, administrative-legal, military, social, political, and so on). The course is aimed at studying the theoretical and methodological foundations, the main types and methods of expert activity; the legal side of the activity and legal responsibility of the psychologist.

Psychology of management
  • Number of credits - 3
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to provide scientific training of highly qualified specialists based on the study of fundamental concepts of management psychology, creating prerequisites for a theoretical understanding and practical application of the most important aspects of the field of management in the process of professional formation. The course is aimed at studying the patterns of development and functioning of mental processes, the basics of effective interaction and conflict resolution, self-development and self-presentation.

Psychotraining and gaming technologies
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Рurpose: formation of professional competencies for the implementation of psychological intervention and psychological assistance using psychotraining and gaming technologies. The content of the main psychotechnology’s acceptable for working with children and adolescents, basic psychotraining procedures, basic approaches to non-directive game therapy and game technologies of mass application are studied.

Research and development of giftedness and genius
  • Number of credits - 9
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Рurpose: formation of professional competencies in the field of the study and development of giftedness and genius. The course provides basic guidelines in understanding genius, talent, giftedness and mediocrity. Its content reveals modern ideas about the nature, mechanisms, structure, criteria of giftedness and genius of children; concepts, models and technologies of development of these phenomena, the content of the system of psychological support of giftedness and genius.

Data for 2021-2024 years

disciplines

Art therapy technologies
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Рurpose: formation of professional competencies in the application of basic art therapeutic technologies and methods to solve correctional, developmental, psychotherapeutic and preventive tasks of a psychologist. They are being studied the methodology, methods, history and current state, directions of art therapy and the specifics of the use of art therapy technologies and techniques in different age periods of an individual's development are studied, taking into account problems and requests.

Art therapy technologies in work with children and teenagers
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Рurpose: the formation of basic skills and practical development of effective technologies of art-therapeutic work in various fields of activity of a practical psychologist. The course is aimed at mastering the methodology and methods of art therapy in the framework of psychodiagnostics, counseling, psychocorrection, and other areas of psychological activity, studying the specifics of using technologies and techniques of art therapy in the structure of the practical psychologist.

Body-oriented practices in working with children and adolescents
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Рurpose: the formation of basic knowledge of theoretical body-oriented psychotherapy and methods of practical work of the psychologist in the framework of this direction with children and adolescents. The course focuses on the practical development of body-oriented psychotherapy techniques and procedures for creating and using resource trance states.

Cognitive-behavioral methods in working with children and adolescents
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Рurpose: formation of basic knowledge of the theoretical foundations of the cognitive-behavioral approach and skills in the application of methods of cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy. They are being studied the origins, history of occurrence, basic provisions and concepts, technological aspects of the cognitive-behavioral approach, the specifics of behavioral and cognitive methods and techniques for children and adolescents when working with anxiety, depressive, and behavioral disorders.

Computational Modeling of Social Behavior
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Рurpose: to develop the ability to understand, apply computer modeling in the analysis of social behavior, important aspects of models in psychology; a clear understanding of computer modeling of social behavior. Computer models providing accurate formalism of social processes are revealed; features of modeling social behavior, forecasting system behavior, virtual combinations of internal and external behavior parameters.

Computer modeling and statistics in psychology
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: formation of professional psychological thinking through the development of practical skills in the application of computer modeling methods and statistical methods of data processing. The course provides for the study of ways to increase the "purity" of the experiment by increasing the accuracy of recording the results and eliminating errors in processing the source data.

Diagnosis and assessment of mental development of children and teenagers
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Рurpose: preparation for the diagnostic direction of the work of a child psychologist, the formation of diagnostic and evaluation competencies. The course content examines the diagnostic aspects of the ontogenesis of the human psyche; methodological approaches and scales for assessing mental development in general and individual mental functions in norm and pathology; principles of organization of a psychodiagnostic examination and formulation of a psychodiagnostic conclusion.

History, Condition and Development Tendency of Modern Psychology
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Рurpose: formation of competencies for mastering the theoretical and practical foundations of the development of psychological thought. Qualitative changes in the development of psychological ideas, the history of the emergence of a particular psychological concept, common and distinctive features in the development of psychology in different eras, various scientific concepts and theories, achievements of the past and modern psychological thought are revealed.

Methodology, methods and experiment in psychology
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: to master the methodology, theory, organization of psychological research, including experiment, as a special form of research practice. The course is aimed at familiarization with the methodological foundations of psychological science, the formation of skills in planning psychological research, obtaining and processing empirical data; obtaining, interpreting and presenting experimental data.

Modern methods of statistics in psychology
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Рurpose: to contribute to the formation of competence in the analysis of research results by statistical methods and possession of a variety of methodological arsenal of statistical science. The main stages and directions of the development of statistics as a science are studied; rules, methods and techniques of statistical analysis of information, valid methods of quantitative and qualitative data processing, features of automatic application of standard formulas.

Psychology and psychotherapy of parent-child relationships
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Рurpose: improving professional competence in the applied field of psychology of child-parent relationships. They are being studied the specifics of families with children are studied; mental patterns in the sphere of interaction between parents and children; child-parent relations as a factor in the development of a child's personality; family relationships through the prism of attachment theory; features of psychological work and psychotherapy of child-parent relations, psychotherapy in cases of assistance to family members in divorce.

Psychology of abnormal development of children and adolescents
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Рurpose: formation of systemic, holistic and stable ideas among undergraduates about the problems and specifics of abnormal mental development of children and adolescents. The course provides a modern understanding of the nature, causes and mechanisms of the emergence and development of deviant development; focuses on the study and possible psychocorrection of the phenomena of impaired development, the mechanisms of their formation and general patterns of dysontogenesis.

Psychotraining and game technologies in the work of a child psychologist
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: formation of professional competencies for the implementation of psychological intervention and psychological assistance using psychotraining and gaming technologies. The course integrates the content of basic psychotechnologies acceptable for working with children and adolescents. It focuses on the practical use of basic psychotraining procedures, the use of basic approaches to non-directive game therapy and game technologies of mass application.

Research Methods and Experiment in Psychology
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Рurpose: to form the ability to understand the role of research work in the practical activity of a specialist, to master and consolidate the basic concepts of scientific research, to form an idea of the methods and logic of scientific knowledge, search, accumulation, processing of scientific information and registration of research results. The methodological foundations of psychological research, classification and characteristics of empirical methods, procedure and organization of psychological experiment are revealed.

Theoretical Methodological Basis of Psychology
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Рurpose: to develop the ability to understand, critically analyze and apply professional methodological knowledge, research methods, understand research problems, and solve methodological dilemmas in modern psychology. The discipline allows you to learn the categorical structure, explanatory principles and approaches, key problems and the specifics of psychological cognition itself; it teaches you to apply universal criteria to assess the quality of psychological theory.

Workshop on child clinical psychology
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Рurpose: to promote the mastery of methods of in-depth diagnostics in the work of a child clinical psychologist, methods of organizing child psychotherapy and psychocorrection for various deviations in mental development. The technologies of psychological and neuropsychological examination, methods of studying the cognitive sphere in children with mental development disorders, psychotherapy and psychocorrection procedures are studied.

Data for 2021-2024 years

INTERNSHIPS

Pedagogical
  • Type of control - Защита практики
  • Description - Formation of practical, educational-methodical skills of conducting lectures, seminars, creatively apply scientific, theoretical knowledge, practical skills in teaching activities, conduct training sessions in the disciplines of the specialty; own modern professional techniques, methods of training, use in practice the latest theoretical, methodological advances, make educational, methodological documentation.

Research
  • Type of control - Защита НИР
  • Description - The purpose of the practice: gaining experience in the study of an actual scientific problem, expand the professional knowledge gained in the learning process, and developing practical skills for conducting independent scientific work. The practice is aimed at developing the skills of research, analysis and application of economic knowledge.

Research
  • Type of control - Защита практики
  • Description - The purpose of the practice: gaining experience in the study of an actual scientific problem, expand the professional knowledge gained in the learning process, and developing practical skills for conducting independent scientific work. The practice is aimed at developing the skills of research, analysis and application of economic knowledge.

Data for 2021-2024 years