Coursera Psychology Courses & Certifications

The Managing Emotions in Times of Uncertainty & Stress certification course is provided online by Coursera and is developed and offered by the University of Yale. The online course duration is approximately ten hours which is distributed into eight weeks in the course syllabus. The students can gain valuable insights from the course educator Marc Brackett who is the director at the Yale centre of emotional intelligence. 

The online training is about developing skills in perceiving emotions to handle uncertain times specifically for the teachers, students, and professionals in school systems. The course emphasizes the significance of emotions and suggests strategies to manage your own while analysing and remaining sensitive to the emotions of people around you.

The videos, readings, and quizzes make the learning process comfortable and make an impact on knowledge acquisition. The candidates will be able to receive a shareable certificate after Managing Emotions in Times of Uncertainty & Stress training completion which adds to the knowledge asset to enhance your skillset. 

Visual Perception and the Brain certification course is a 4 weeks course that is provided in joint conjunction with Duke University. Candidates with this course shall be introduced to the different problems that are faced by a vision in human heads that is done by taking up perception as the guide. Humans often see the physical world in a difficult way, and this course’s goal is to learn why.

The candidates will also be learning what is generated through a visual system which is considered ad the central visionary problem. It will also teach what visual perception actually indicates regarding the working of a brain. Visual Perception and the Brain training will focus on the discussions of the physiology, and visual system anatomy whose main focus is on perception. In the end, the certificate will allow the sharing of the completion certificates within the section of their Linkedin profile.

The Psychodiagnostics and Psychological Assessment Online Course available on the Coursera platform explores the contemporary approaches of Psychodiagnostics and various assessment methods. The 100% online course will have a flexible course design that allows learners to set deadlines.

Through the Psychodiagnostics and Psychological Assessment Live Course, learners will be introduced to the ethical standards of psychological diagnostics along with widely accepted Psychodiagnostics methods. The course is administered by the National Research Tomsk State University, Russia.

After the completion of the Psychodiagnostics and Psychological Assessment Certification Course through online videos, academic readings, and practice exercises, learners will be able to receive a shareable course certificate.

The ‘Agile Leader Training’ online course is designed for the students to study the neuroscience behind the change and the process of becoming resistant to the changes for effective leadership and management. This online certification program is provided by the Coursera education platform for the students fulfilling the eligibility requirements and the course curriculum is developed by the University of Colorado.

This introductory level course is structured to be completed in fifteen hours and the students of this course are allowed to reset the deadlines for the assessments. This program is part of the agile leadership specialization and is led by the instructor, Oxana Trotsenko who is a business school lecturer. 

The ‘Agile Leader Training’ online program helps students to gain a course completion certificate that can be shared online for recognition and to find opportunities in the industry. The participants of this course will acquire professional skills and conceptual understanding of the theories through the course content aided by the English and Hungarian subtitles.

Psychosocial and Spiritual Aspects of Palliative Care is a 5-week online course designed by Regina Fink, Maurice Scott, Kelly Arora, Amos Bailey and Nancy Robertson in partnership with the University of Colorado. The Psychosocial and Spiritual Aspects of Palliative Care certification by Coursera deals with people suffering from long-term illnesses and teaches how to provide comfort with compassion, social interaction, and conversations.

The online module course will discuss topics related to chronic illnesses and how it affects the mental health of patients and their families. It will guide family members or caregivers on how to care, ease pain and anxiety, provide comfort, and communicate better. The Psychosocial and Spiritual Aspects of Palliative Care training take a unique approach by including common social, spiritual and psychological concerns and providing deep insights to help people with long-term illnesses, cope with challenges such as Financial Resources, Relationships, Intimacy and affected sense of control.

Think Again I: How to Understand Arguments certification is a course that is currently part 1 of 4 belonging to the specialization of Introduction to Logic and Critical Thinking. The entire course is of 4 weeks duration and is presented on the platform of Coursera by Duke University. All the weeks are divided into some hours each which teaches in the form of videos, ungraded quizzes after each week’s completion, and finally one long graded one at the end.

Think Again I: How to Understand Arguments training will explain what exactly an argument is so that it enables the participants to identify what kind of arguments the different kinds of speakers are giving so that their connections are revealed. Also with this certification course, candidates will be able to fill in gaps for their communication with arguments by adding premises that are suppressed. This will also teach participants to admire other people’s arguments.

Think Again IV: How to Avoid Fallacies certification is a 4 weeks course that belongs to the Introduction to Logic and Critical Thinking Specialization course. This certification course is a joint association between Coursera, and Duke University. In everyday lives everyone encounters fallacies. Everyone, including children, salespersons, and politicians, are mainly known for using fallacies that can be identified with this course.

Think Again IV: How to Avoid Fallacies certification syllabus is divided into many different video segments. These videos are followed by some small ungraded quizzes after every segment. All this then is topped off with a final quiz that is graded at the end of the course.

Think Again IV: How to Avoid Fallacies training allows people to avoid common fallacies so that they never get fooled by others, and not think what these people want them to believe. Also learning about fallacies is important as the participants can stop using fallacies themselves. 

Think Again II: How to Reason Deductively certification is a 4 weeks course offered by Coursera along with Duke University. This course has been made available for those participants who want to learn truth tables to state the information in the conclusion of an argument to prove that it is deductive, and valid at the same time. The final certificate gives value to the participant’s career and makes it more beneficial.

Think Again II: How to Reason Deductively training will give room for more detailed exercises for those wanting to explore topics like Ninth Edition, Understanding Arguments: An Introduction to Informal Logic, and more in detail. Then the entire weekly syllabus will be divided into innumerable video segments that have to be seen in groups or separately. Ultimately these will be backed by short quizzes to check their understanding of each segment followed by a lengthy graded quiz at the course end.

Launched by Coursera, and syllabus offered by the Indian School of Business, A Life of Happiness and Fulfillment certification is a very small course. The inspiration of this course is taken from award-winning content developed by professor Raj Raghunathan from different fields like neuroscience, psychology, and behavioral decision theory.

A Life of Happiness and Fulfillment training gives a recipe to the students for leading a life of contentment, happiness, and fulfillment. The course will involve teachings about the different determinants involved in happiness in one’s life along with skills like happiness, meditation, gratitude, and mindfulness. These skills when applied by students practically will help the participants lead a contented life with peace.

A Life of Happiness and Fulfillment programme by Coursera will offer an end course certificate of achievement. This will allow students who were diligent during their lectures on their way to understand the science, and psychology behind happiness by helping them develop their personality traits. These students can ultimately relate to why the most successful humans are not the happiest, and what all needs to be done to live a fulfilled life.

Biohacking could indeed range from acquiring raw water to hanging down to hack one's brain by increasing blood circulation to continuously monitoring everything that passes through and leaves one's body. Emory University created the Biohacking Your Brain's Health online certification, which is taught by Karima Benameur - Assistant Professor, and delivered by Coursera to participants who want to develop the skills used to hack their brain health.

Biohacking Your Brain's Health online classes contain 13 hours of thorough lectures that introduce participants to strategies for improving their brain fitness through diet, exercise, mindfulness, meditation, and sleep. Biohacking Your Brain's Health online course discusses topics like diet, nutrition, structural anatomy, functional anatomy, nutritional research, neurological diseases, and insulin resistance as well as gain an understanding of the anatomy and functions of the brain, as well as receive weekly recommendations for ways to improve their brain health.