You might be looking for a first step into early years work. This course pairs child psychology with child nutrition, birth through childhood. It is an introduction, built for beginners, with no exams.
Preschools, playgroups and family services all start with these ideas.
Development stages and feeding come up at home too.
Child psychology and child nutrition sit in the same enrolment.
Early years teams want people who understand what a child needs. Days look like play, routines, meals and watching how each child is doing.
Support activities that help children grow.
Work alongside a preschool or creche team.
Help run the daily programme and routines.
Support families through a service or centre.
Run play sessions for small groups.
Roles where these skills are useful, not promised outcomes. Every job is different. Counselling and psychology roles in Ireland need approved study, supervised practice and registration.
Two strands: how children develop, and how they should be fed.
Three things to know first.
Two full strands, not one subject stretched thin.
Development is tracked from newborn to school age.
A year of student membership with the International Association for Counselling.
Plus a year of association membership
Issued by the college when you finish.
A year with the International Association for Counselling.
Credits that count toward professional growth.
Early years work, family services, or your own home.
An advisor is straight about what this does not do.
Upfront, or weekly, fortnightly or monthly.
Enrol and open the first topics.
None at all. The course is built for beginners.
Six months of access, and around one hundred and twenty hours of material.
None, ever. You move through the topics at your own speed.
Child psychological development, and children's development with nutrition.
It is a strong start, and the ideas are the ones early years teams use. The college recommends further training or an internship for hands on experience. Many people use this course to find out whether the work suits them first.
A Certificate of Achievement, plus a year of association membership.
It is accredited by ICOES and the CPD Standards Office. It is not a QQI course and not a national award, and it is not a route to professional registration. It is introductory learning, and it is priced and paced that way.
There is a fourteen day money back window, minus the administration fee.
This course is delivered by The Career Academy.
It is accredited by ICOES, the International Council for Online Educational Standards, and by the CPD Standards Office.
Picture the morning a quiet child finally joins in because you knew how.