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22 Online Psychology Courses To Sign Up To If You’re Fascinated By The Way We Tick
From positive thinking to forensic psychology, these courses will help deepen your knowledge of yourself and those around you.
The easy accessibility and sheer number of online courses means it has never been easier to expand upon your knowledge.
And if your interest area is the brain and how people and society function, then we've got good news for you.
Whether it’s diversity and discrimination, positive psychology and the science of well-being, or meditation and child psychology, the internet holds an abundance of digital resources to help deepen your understanding of people and yourself.
There are several areas of psychology, ranging from clinical and forensic to sport and applied, so it’s important to research the fields your interested in and find the right course that suits you. As psychologist Robert Biswas-Diener once said: ‘Once you start making the effort to ‘wake yourself up’—that is, be more mindful in your activities—you suddenly start appreciating life a lot more.’
You could even take your interest in the mind to the next step and look into studying the subject at degree level. Many degree courses are accredited and abide by the professional body guidelines, outlined by the British Psychological Society, which you can find out more about here. But, for now, how about starting with an online course from the comfort of your own home?
Additional learning from the sofa has never sounded so appealing...
Here is a list of the best online psychology courses:
Understand the Mind: 15 Fascinating Psychology Studies
Fascinated by the mind and how we all tick? After completing this course you’re sure to have learnt how to apply psychology to engineer effect group interactions, consider ways of using psychological science to solve big problems and how to reach your goals.
Course: 34 lectures
Price: £12.99
Feel-good Productivity
Do you struggle being productive? Well, thanks to this course you’ll be able to learn how to tackle avoidance and procrastination, how to focus on the important things in your life and develop more commitment, grit and determination. Stop thinking about how to fill your time and rather focus on the things that truly matter.
Course: 62 lectures
Price: £12.99
NLP Practitioner Certification Course (Beginner to Advanced)
This is your chance to learn about human behaviour and how to communicate more effectively with others. This NLP Practitioner training will teach you how to develop deep self-awareness, set meaningful goals, break out of bad habits, understand how the mind works and develop a language that encourages and creates change.
Course: 166 lectures
Price: £13.99
The Science of Leadership
Step outside of your comfort zone with this course, during which you’ll learn how to connect with a team, how to inspire them, improve changes processes, build on your coach skills and understand how to effectively boost performance and trust with your colleagues.
Course: 35 lectures
Price: £12.99
Psychology of Diversity and Unconscious Bias
Explore the differences between stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination on this course, as well as strategies for undermining unconscious biases.
Better yet, you’ll also learn how to best approach diversity and reduce the effects of conscious and unconscious bias.
Course: 2.5 hours on-demand videos, three articles, certificate of completion.
Price: £9.99
Diploma in Modern Applied Psychology (Achology Certified)
This is your chance to learn all about Modern Applied Psychology in as little as six months. After completing this syllabus, you'll be well versed in everything from how to self-reflect critically and accurately, to understanding how the unconscious mind motivates human behaviour.
Course: 50.5 hours on-demand video, three articles, 221 downloadable resources, certificate on completion.
Price: £13.99
Forensic Psychology Certificate
If you love shows like Silent Witness and Mindhunter then this course is the one for you.
You’ll learn why eyewitnesses aren’t always the most reliable, whether psychopaths are more likely to commit crimes, re-offending and how the FBI use offer profiling in their investigations.
Course: 2.5 hours on-demand video, four downloadable resources, certificate of completion.
Price: £9.99
Understand the Mind: 15 Fascinating Psychology Studies
If you’re motivated to understand the bigger picture in life and are open to learning all about using real psychological science to problem solve then, listen up.
The studies in this course include explorations of persuasion and social behaviour.
Course: 2.5 hours on-demand video, eight articles, certificate of completion and certificate on completion.
Price: £9.99
Advanced Level Psychology Certificate – Accredited
Those interested in studying advanced forms of psychology are best signing up to this course as it’ll help develop in-depth knowledge on how to treat ‘abnormal behaviour’, perception, attention and why we conform to authority.
Course: Four hours on-demand video, 11 downloadable resources, certificate of completion.
Price: £9.99
Learn Social Psychology
This comprehensive course will teach everything you need to know about how to understand human psychology.
Social psychology topics that will be covered include self-concepts, relationships, cognitive dissonance and social influence.
Course: Five hours on-demand video, 10 articles, certificate of completion.
Price: £9.99
Introduction to Child Psychology Certificate – Accredited
Parenting is a tricky business but might be helped by a greater understanding of parenting styles.
This course consists of 19 lectures on subjects such as how counselling young children works, how parental separation and divorce affects a child and the effects of public vs homeschooling in a child’s development.
Course: Two hours on-demand video, six downloadable resources, certificate of completion.
Price: £9.99
Master Persuasion Psychology
Think you have the art of persuasion? Well, put it to the test as you use this course to understand when some techniques are persuasive and when they’re not, how to map out a message so it’s persuasive to the right audience and how to diagnose problems in your own messages.
Course: Three hours on-demand video, eight articles, two downloadable resources, certificate of completion.
Price: £9.99
Social Psychology
This course will teach you everything you’ve ever wanted to know about how and why people tick the way they do, covering topics such as perceptions and misperceptions as well as conformity, group behaviour and peace-making.
Course: Seven weeks, certificate on completion
Price: Enrol for Free
Introduction To Psychology
An online course from Yale is hard to come by, which means this is an incredible offer. In this course, you’ll learn more about perception, communication, learning, memory and decision-making, as well as how these areas vary in the development of children.
Course: Six weeks, certificate on completion
Price: Enrol for free
Buddhism and Modern Psychology
Princeton University is behind this science of meditation course that critically examines meditative practice and Buddhist ideas about how the mind works.
Ask yourself: ‘Does the self exist?’
Course: Six weeks, certificate on completion
Price: Enrol for free
Positive Psychology: Resilience Skills
Penn University will teach you about how to incorporate resilience techniques into your personal and professional life including mental agility and optimism. You will also learn key cognitive strategies such as how to manage anxiety and increase positive emotions.
Course: Four weeks, certificate on completion
Price: Enrol for free
The Science of Well Being
If you’ve always wanted to know the importance of the pursuit for happiness, then this is the course for you.
Courtesy of Yale, this syllabus includes challenges aimed to increase your happiness and productivity as well as teach you and misconceptions about happiness. What are you waiting for?
Course: 10 weeks, certificate on completion
Price: Enrol for free
Learn Positive Psychiatry
Positive mental health and wellbeing is a fascinating subject that's explored on this course and looks at various mental health issues, treatment and support.
‘Experience experts’ will also take part on the course and open up about their personal stories of recovery and living with psychological issues.
Course: Five weeks, certificate on completion
Price: Enrol for free
Understanding the Brain: The Neurobiology of Everyday Life
Want to know more about the brain? Well, now is the time to educate yourself in how the nervous system produces behaviour, how neuroscience can explain common problems, functional human neuroanatomy and neuronal communication.
Course: 10 weeks, certificate on completion
Price: Enrol for free
Medical neuroscience
This course will teach your everything you’ve always wanted to learn about neurophysiology and clinical neuroanatomy, including sensory systems, motor systems and brain development.
Course: 13 weeks, certificate on completion
Price: Enrol for free
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