Online Psychology Courses & Certifications

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.

Unlike the brain, the mind is not a physical organ but is a collection of faculties and a combination of cognitive and non-cognitive aspects. Some of these aspects include imagination, thinking, memory, intelligence, consciousness and language. This makes the mind a fascinating subject to study. The AP® Psychology-Course 3: How the Mind Works training by Edx discusses concepts such as classical and operant conditioning, as well as social learning. 

Furthermore, the Edx AP® Psychology - Course 3: How the Mind Works certification course helps students learn through a series of video lectures and demonstrations. Learners also test their knowledge with many practice questions. The programme is excellent for those preparing for the AP Psychology exam. 

The University of British Columbia offers the AP® Psychology course series, which consists of six courses in total. Besides, the Edx AP® Psychology courses offer self-paced online learning. Students can learn free of cost and earn a shareable certificate by paying the fee. 

Offered by the University of British Columbia (UBC), edX’s AP® Psychology – Course 5: Health and Behaviour is the fifth in the AP® Psychology sequence. Learners explore concepts of psychological adjustment and health. The syllabus includes assessments of psychological abnormality and treatments.

A plethora of questions and interviews of psychologists are covered. With demonstrations and video-lectures, the AP® Psychology Health and Behaviour course by edX help candidates prepare for the AP® Psychology exam. This four-week programme comes with a verified certificate that can be accessed by paying a fee.

Taught by Dr Steven J Barner, this introductory course belongs to the Social Science subject. Steven J Barnes- is an expert instructor from the Psychology department at UBC. Video transcripts are available in English, and the programme is self-paced. Focusing on the psychological adjustments and concepts of stress, the AP® Psychology Health and Behaviour certification course emphasises the relationship between behaviours and health.

In a work environment, it is essential to foster healthy and trusting relationships between employees. It allows the workforce to enjoy greater satisfaction, productivity, and engagement. The Empathy and Emotional Intelligence at Work programme by edX will help you achieve emotional and social skills to develop positive work relationships.

The Empathy and Emotional Intelligence at Work online course is designed to help you support higher employee retention and loyalty. The curriculum of the programme will consider real-world examples and case studies to teach you research-based skills. Furthermore, your skillset in psychology will expand by taking this programme.

The Empathy and Emotional Intelligence at Work certification course will allow you to gain good management skills, problem-solving, effective teamwork, and resilience. Also, it will help you understand the importance of empathy and collaboration among organisational teams. You will learn to develop a culture of belongingness and engagement. University of California, Berkeley is the course developer. You can join the programme either in the paid or free mode. In the free mode, you can access the programme only for a limited period. 

Working in an organization is an experience that most individuals go through at some point in their lives. However, it takes a lot to turn this experience into an interactive, self-upgrading journey, and happiness forms the basis of it all. The Foundations of Happiness at Work course by edX imparts essential knowledge to help students understand how they can cultivate an enjoyable environment in their workplace, thus improving their company and own performance as a whole. 

The Foundations of Happiness at Work program curriculum features core factors that empirical research links to workplace satisfaction, including gratitude, developing a firm purpose, garnering cooperative relationships with fellow workers, and more. The training also highlights the standard barriers at cultural and individual levels, that stop employees from attaining a happier workplace.

The University of California, Berkeley’s online training for The Foundations of Happiness at Work features the institution’s top instructors, along with a self-paced curriculum for the learners’ maximum convenience. This short programme is free for all and offers a payable verified certification to help students pursue desired employment roles after course completion. In the free mode, the learners have only limited access to the programme. 

The Guidance and Counselling certification course is offered by the National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research, Chennai. It ensures that teachers have a much broader scope in assisting students while making important educational and vocational choices. The course is scheduled for a duration of four weeks and is a teacher education course.

The Guidance and Counselling course curriculum extensively covers all the topics related to assessment techniques in guidance and counselling. AICTE has also approved the course syllabus. Moreover, this course forms one of the most important and integral parts of our educational system as it allows for the overall development of the students.

The Guidance and Counselling online training is offered by Dr. R Rajendran. He is currently working as the Professor and Head at the Centre for Education Management and Applied Psychology at the NITTTR, Chennai. Given his vast experience in guiding teachers, students, and institutions, learners can be sure of being trained by one of the country's best minds.

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.

The ‘Understanding Brain Health: Preventing Dementia’ online course is provided by the online education platform FutureLearn and is offered by institutions such as the University of Edinburgh and Brain Health Scotland. The online training will take four weeks to complete while the students are required to spend three hours every week.

The independent learning program is focused on the study of the methods and strategies to prevent dementia and other brain conditions by improving brain health and awareness. The students get the opportunities to know about the evaluation techniques that identify risk factors in their early stages. 

The course instructors for this program are Craig Ritchie (Director of Brain Health Scotland and also a professor teaching psychiatry of aging at the University of Edinburgh), Emma Stevenson (Professor teaching Sports and exercise science and nutrition at Newcastle University), and  Sophie Bradley (Senior Lecturer from the University of Glasgow). 

The ‘Understanding Brain Health: Preventing Dementia’ training accredited by the CPD certification service ensures free access and a course certificate for the eligible candidates after course completion.

The ‘Brief introduction to Psychology’ online course is designed for the students to get an overview of the fundamental and significant concepts of psychology. This certification program is provided by the free online educational portal Swayam with the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL). The course classes are conducted for four weeks.

This elective program is a faculty development program approved by the All India Council for Technical Education and the course instructor for this certification course is Prof. Braj Bhushan from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. 

The course curriculum is provided along with the books and reference materials that allow students to get an extensive knowledge of the various aspects of psychology. The candidates of this ‘Brief introduction to Psychology’ online certification training course will be given academic course credits and the course certificate after completing the course study and the assessments fulfilling the eligibility criteria.

The ‘Psychology of Everyday’ online course is an elective program designed for the students of the undergraduate level which offers a comprehensive understanding of the fundamental aspects of human behavior from the lens of psychology. This free online certification program is provided by the education platform Swayam initiated by the government of India and the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL). The course classes are conducted for four weeks and the course duration is ten hours in total.

The course instructors of the training program are faculty from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Prof. Braj Bhushan(Psychology), and Dr. Alok Bajpai who is also a trained psychiatrist. This program is part of the humanities and social sciences with the psychological field and focuses on the everyday applications of the concepts of psychiatry and psychology.

 The ‘Psychology of Everyday’ online training enables students to receive a course certificate and course credit after successfully completing the course.

The ‘Stress Management’ online course is organized as an elective program for individuals and students at their undergraduate and postgraduate levels. The course discusses the various concepts and theories that enable the process of managing stress and preventing them from going beyond control. This online certification program is provided by the Swayam online education portal in association with the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL).

The course curriculum is structured into four modules that are delivered to the students in four weeks. The classes are held online aided by experiential learning methods of video lectures, assessments, and the final examination led by the course instructor Prof. Rajlakshmi Guha from the Centre for Educational Technology at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. 

The ‘Stress Management’ online certification course which belongs to the multidisciplinary domain equips students with a course certificate and credit points after completion of the course.

The Great Experiments in Psychology certification course is a 4 weeks course. This postgraduate programme is available online through Swayam’s provider platform. Human Psychology is such a subject that excites people to know about what humans actually do think of their race as a whole. Hence this course was based on the above-stated ideology. 

The Great Experiments in Psychology training is offered for everyone who wants to establish themselves through various experiments in psychology as a science that are usually unknown for many people. This programme usually gives an attempt in sharing certain important experiments prevalent in the history of Psychology that has helped towards shaping up its identity as a science. Ultimately this course will help in designing experiments using human subjects trying to understand the scientific approach of psychology.

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.

Cognitive psychology is the subfield of psychology that studies how individuals think. Cognitive psychology focuses on how the interactions between thinking, emotion, creativity and problem-solving abilities influence how and why you think the way you do. Psychology aims to quantify various types of intelligence, ascertain how individuals organize their thoughts and compare various cognitive components. Introduction to Cognitive Psychology: An Experimental Science certification developed by the University of York, the course will be explained by Philip Quinlan and will be offered by FutureLearn.

Introduction to Cognitive Psychology: An Experimental Science online training offers three weeks of digital lessons and a digital certificate after eligibility. Introduction to Cognitive Psychology: An Experimental Science online course focuses on concepts and techniques in key areas of cognitive psychology like reasoning, thinking, and mental imagery. Aspirants will gain an understanding of studying how the mind works and learns why cognitive psychology is an experimental science. Participants will get the opportunity to examine and learn how to conduct an experiment, collect data, and comprehend the science behind memory and behavior.