2017/18 Taught Postgraduate Module Catalogue

PSOB5110M Infant Observation

40 creditsClass Size: 25

Module manager: Laura Liddell
Email: lauraliddell@nhs.net

Taught: 1 Sep to 31 Aug (24mth) View Timetable

Year running 2017/18

Pre-requisite qualifications

A student is required to have obtained a professional or academic qualification/s to diploma or degree level; e.g. social work, teaching, nursing, psychology, psychiatry. At interview the student's ability to work at postgraduate level will be discussed.

Co-requisites

PSOB5210M

Work Discussion

Module replaces

PSIA5110M Infant Observation

This module is not approved as an Elective

Objectives

On completion of this module, students will be able to:
- identify and provide detailed accounts of the infant's developmental progress and of the relationships within the family
- monitor and provide detailed accounts of their own reactions to these observations
- integrate their observations with relevant psychoanalytic theory.

Learning outcomes
At the end of the module students will have:
1. an in depth understanding of the physical, psychological and emotional development in infancy
2. a capacity for detailed observation and analysis of early human development within a naturalistic setting.

Skills outcomes
This practice based module will enable students to develop detailed, meticulous and sequential observational skills applying psychoanalytic perspectives to human development in the first 2 years of life.

Students should develop skills in accurate and detailed recording of observations and be able to maintain a boundaried observational stance.

Syllabus

Students are required to observe weekly for one hour over a period of two years, babies growing up in their families from birth onwards. Learning centres on the emotional, intellectual and physical growth of the infants and their interactions within the family, and on the feelings of the observers and their reflections during and after the observations.

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Fieldwork	90	2.00	180.00
Seminar	60	1.15	75.00
Tutorial	6	1.00	6.00
Private study hours			139.00
Total Contact hours			261.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			400.00

Private study

Students are expected to read literature provided in the reading list for this module and to seek out specific texts relating to particular themes and dynamics that are developing in the infant observation over the course of the two years.

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Student progress is monitored through seminar leaders evaluating student participation and quality of understanding demonstrated in student's contribution during weekly small group (5 students) seminars.

Progress is also monitored by a formative assessment portfolio at the end of the 1st year of this 2 year module.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Essay	5,000 word essay	100.00
Portfolio	4,500 word portfolio (PASS/FAIL)	0.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 23/03/2017

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