1 Day Certificate in Child Development: Understanding the Stages in Child Development

Learn about child development and understand how growth and development in the early years of life and improve your professional knowledge by connecting child development theories to practice.

Child Development: Understanding the Different Aspects

The experiences children have in their childhood help to shape the adults they will become. The early years of a child’s life are very important for health and development. A healthy development means having their social, emotional, and educational needs met. At a certain phase, children start to progress from dependency on parents and guardians to increasing independence. By understanding a child’s development progress, it allows learners to ensure that the child is on track for their age.

Early Detection of any Child Developmental Challenges can Make Significant Differences in a Child’s Life

• Do you know how to respond to a child?
• Can you support their health and safety?
• Do you know how to identify developmental milestones?
• What about implementing appropriate discipline?

More than anything else, your relationship with a child shapes the way they learn and develop.

1 Day Certificate in Child Development

This certificate will prepare you to support a child’s optimal development and to respond effectively to the needs, challenges, and strengths of young children and their families. You will gain a working understanding of early childhood development and family functioning. It will cover the various physical, social, and identity developments occurring at each age, explaining how each stage of development is closely linked to mental health and how that is revealed in therapy.

This 1-Day certificate aims to engage learners and influence how an individual can help a child learn about the world, gaining insight into the complexities of child development.

• Understand Developmental milestones and stages
• Learn Effective Development Practices
• Learn how to help children to express and explore feelings that are difficult to verbalise.
• Learn how to identify and improve symptoms of stress, emotional resilience, self-esteem and self-awareness
• How to match developmental ages with appropriate, evidence-based mental health interventions.
• Understand various aspects in children learning and development
• Understand Developmental theories in child growth

This ideal guide for parents, educators, teachers, graduate students, as well as early and experienced professionals,

• Parents of children aged between newborn to 10 years old
• Individuals who work with children
• Working Professionals who are interested and wish to understand and dive into the realms of Early childhood and Development
• Professionals exploring new skills or careers

“Jeslyn is a good mentor, the workshop was very engaging and offers good insights on practical approach to counselling and psychology perspective. Would recommend this course to my colleagues ..” – ST Teo, Programme Leader, ASM Global

“Personally, I’ve known Jeslyn for almost 7 years. She is a amazing lady who is determine to empower the people around her.” – Dan Ng,  Deputy Head, Care & Counselling Dept, St Luke Elderly care

MEd. Developmental Psychology, BA Applied Psychology and Organisational Psychology, Advanced Certification in 5-PATH Hypnotherapy, Certified 7-PATH Self-Hypnosis Teacher, Registered Practitioner & Supervisor (APACS), ACTA Certified.

Jeslyn is the Managing Director of Mind Culture. She is a certified practitioner of Integral Eye Movement Therapy (IEMT) and a member of Association for IEMT Practitioner. Jeslyn is the Immediate Past President of Association of Psychotherapy and Counsellors Singapore (APACS) as well as full member of Singapore Psychological Society (SPS). With extensive experience working in the service and education sectors, she had attained vast opportunities to work with disadvantaged and disenfranchised children, youth, as well as adults (with specialty in the psychological dysfunction, intellectually disabled individuals and their families). Alongside with Advance Certification in Training and Assessment (ACTA), Jeslyn lectures in institutions and is currently providing psychological services in National University Hospital (NUH) for staff wellness.

As a psychologist and a hypnotherapist, she took charge of clinical assessment and program, individual behavioural plan (IBP) development, clinical supervision and clinical meetings with parents. With experience in behavioural and language intervention (trained in ABLLS™, ABA & VB techniques/ physiology) and alongside with hypnotherapeutic work, she is National Guild of Hypnotists (NGH) Certified with an Advanced Certification In 5-PATH®, as well as a 7th PATH Self-Hypnosis Teacher.

Jeslyn work closely with clients in achieving individualised learning goals progressively. Apart from her work experience in the social service industry, she also spent years in the private sectors in management level, ensuring employees’ well-being by performing conflict resolution, and providing counselling services. This further fortified her skills in dealing with clients regarding matters of safety, crisis, and restorative management. She developed therapeutic interventions to promote motivation and heighten work morale as well as work ethics. Additionally, Jeslyn is experienced in the medical sector as a senior surgical operating assistant, dealing with patients and cases that included financial hardship, phobias, and socio-emotional needs.

Master of Counselling, Monash University. BA Psychology, Murdoch University. Certified Hypnotherapist, National Guild of Hypnosis (NGH), Advanced certification in 5-Path, and 7-Path Self-Hypnosis Teacher. Practitioner in NLP – American Board of NLP, USA.

With humble beginnings and personal experiences, Thomas has always been seeking a way to give back to society and has come to realise that many still struggle in the aspects of mental health. Coupled with his interests in human thought and behaviour, it has driven him towards the field of psychology and counselling.

At Mind Culture , he provides counselling services and manages business development, and provides training and workshops for business leaders. Thomas has several years of exposure in multi-government agency collaboration. In the private sector, he provided consultative work to start-ups and MNCs on their business structure, consumer approach, talent management, employee welfare, training and development, and workplace safety.

He is also trained in Strategic Negotiation and certified by the National Guild of Hypnotists (NGH) with an Advanced Certification In 5-PATH®️, as well as a 7th PATH Self-Hypnosis Teacher and a neuro-linguistic programming practitioner, Thomas is dedicated to the growth and is constantly seeking improvements in strategies and techniques that can effectively help his clients achieve their best. It is his belief that by providing guidance in navigating his clients' current situations, individuals from all walks of life can then be led towards reaching their fullest potential.