Developmental psychology

Weekly Schedule – Study Period 3, 2014

#	Week Beginning	LESSON	ACTIVITIES	ASSESSMENT	TASKS
1	1 Sept	Theories and Methods in Developmental Psychology [Chap. 1 & 2]	Practice Test 1-17/20	Social Services Program Vodafone connected program	Read the lecture (see above attachment), and Read the lecture notes for this topic, and read Chapters 1 and 2 of the Berk (2013) text. Download and read the handout for the first assignment – Critical Review of a Social Services Program, and consider which social service program to evaluate. Complete Weekly Activity 1: Read a summary of the APS guidelines and the Children’s Research Rights table from your text (p. 66), then complete the Children and Research Ethics table. On the weekly activities discussion forum, go to the weekly activities link for Week 1 and answer the questions posted there. Download and read the first handout for the Research Report – this handout is available from Assessments/Assignment 2: Research Report folder.
2	8 Sept	Infancy Early Learning and Perception  [Chap. 4]	Practice Test 2-Watch first 5 mins of video	Journal Articles Korean adolescent girls‘ addictive use of mobile phones to maintaininterpersonal solidarity   –Adolescent Use of Mobile Phones for Calling and for Sending Text Messages After Lights Out: Results from a Prospective Cohort Study with a One-Year Follow-Up   –Interventions Using New Digital Media to Improve Adolescent Sexual Health: A Systematic Review   FC27-06 – Using mobile phones to detect, treat, and manage adolescent mental halth: A randomised controlled trial of the mobiletype program in rural and metro primary care   Self-monitoring Using Mobile Phones in the Early Stages of Adolescent Depression: Randomized Controlled Trial   The Mobile Connection : The Cell Phone’s Impact on Society   Adolescent mobile phone addiction: A cause for concern?   Cell Phone Use among Homeless Youth: Potential for New Health Inverventions and Research	Read the lecture (see above attachment), and Read Chapter 4 of the text and note the Learning Objectives at the start of the chapter relating to this week’s lesson. Collect journal articles on the Social Service program of your choice, noting key themes in past literature on the effectiveness of such programs. A guide to using the Swinburne library is available in the Extra Materials section. There is also a forum on the general discussion board to post any questions for our online librarian Susan. Answer weekly exercise
4	17 June	Predicting health behaviour [Chap. 5]	Library tutorial	Reading Log & OLT 2	Read the lecture (see above attachment), and Read Chapter 5 of the text and note the Learning Objectives at the start of the chapter relating to this week’s lesson. Assessment 1: Read and log a journal article (in your group’s Blog) as listed in the Reading Log selection from Weeks 1 to 4 or find one of your own to review. Read the handout for Assessmentt 3: Health Improvement Essay. This handout can be found under the Assessment tab. Complete the library tutorial and find an article related to Health Improvement. Contribute your findings to the relevant Discussion Board forum. Complete the second Online Test – OLT2.
5	24 June	Stress, health; illness [Chap. 11]	Rate your stress levels		Read the lecture (see attachment above), and Read Chapter 11 of the text and note the Learning Objectives at the start of the chapter relating to this week’s lesson. Rate yourself on the Stress scale of the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale by Lovibond and Lovibond (1995). Contribute your findings to the relevant Discussion Board forum. Work on Assessment 3: Health Improvement essay. There is no online test this week.
6	1 July	Reducing risk of disease [Chap. 6]	Plagiarism man	Reading Log & OLT 3	Read the lecture (see above), and Read Chapter 6 of the text and note the Learning Objectives at the start of the chapter relating to this week’s lesson. Assessment 1: Read and log a journal article as listed in the Reading Log selection from Weeks 5 to 6 find one of your own to review. Complete Plagiarism Man. Contribute to the week’s Discussion Board forum. Work on Assessment 3: Health Improvement essay. Complete the third online test – OLT3.
7	8 July	Population approaches to public health [Chap. 7]	Visit healthy cities website
8	15 July	Symptom perception [Chap. 9]	Serious illness activity	Reading Log  OLT 4
9	22 July	The consultation [Chap. 10]	View a YouTube video	Assessment 3 (Essay) due
10	29 July	Stress & illness moderators [Chap. 12, 13]	Physiological measure of stress	Reading Log  OLT 5
11	5 August	Impact of illness [Chap. 14, 15]	Quality of Life activity
12	12 August	Improving health [Chap.17,18]	Barriers to change	OLT 6
13	19 August	Revision		Exam Date and TimeTo be advised by OUA Examination Services