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Self Paced 20-hour course to help you understand more about behavioural profiling
Learn more about the use of psychological and behavioural profiling in a wide range of settings, such as recruitment, education, criminology and marketing. A profile helps us to find out more about a person, what they are really like, their characteristics and personality. We often assume that behavioural profiling is used mainly in the field of criminal behaviour, but psychological profiling can also be used in a wide range of other areas, such as –
- Is this person the right candidate for the job?
- What careers would suit this person?
- Does this child or adult have a specific educational need?
- What customers will buy this product?
- How will a customer buy this product?
- Does this person have a personality disorder, such as Antisocial Personality Disorder?
- Does this person have the right aptitude and skills for this job?
- Does this person have a clinical condition?
- Does this person have the skills and personality required for a promotion?
Psychological profiling can help us to learn more about people and find out whether they are the right candidate for the job, whether they have educational needs, whether they show criminal tendencies and how we can market our goods and services to a particular group of people.
Our 20 hour courses are self paced and will help you understand a topic in a short amount of time. You can work through the course when you like- test yourself with mini-tests along the way. There are extra case studies or research you can undertake if you would really like to get into the topic. Once you have completed the lessons and self assessment tasks, there is a final exam undertaken online- you can then download your personalised certificate.
Course Content - What do you learn?
The course has six lessons -
Lesson 1 Introduction
What is profiling?
Personality
Types of profiling
When and why do we carry out profiling?
How profiling is done
Lesson 1 additional reading
Types of serial killers
Psychopaths
But why do murderers kill?
Who commits murder?
Murder statistics
Review what you have been learning
Lesson 2 How To Profile Someone
Profiling techniques
Putting it all together
Psychological testing in recruitment – how good is it?
Personality testing in recruitment
Review what you have been learning
Lesson 3 Interviews and Questionnaires
Psychological screening
What is an interview?
Planning an interview: structured or unstructured
Components of a profiling interview
What can go wrong?
Dealing with interview data
Competency based interviews in recruitment
Non-verbal behaviour
Active listening and SOLER
Review what you have been learning
Lesson 4 Behavioural Assessment
The ABC model
Traditional vs behavioural assessment
Different applications of behavioural assessments
Behavioural assessment techniques
Problems with behavioural assessments
Functional analysis
More on behavioural assessments
Methods of behavioural assessment
The focus of assessment
Analysis of problem behaviour
Review what you have been learning
Lesson 5 Classical Assessment Tests
The nature of traditional assessment tests
Reliability and validity of psychological tests
More on Wechsler intelligence scales
Subtests
Psychological testing in recruitment – how good is it?
Review what you have been learning
Lesson 6 What Comes Next?
Applications for profiles
How & where to use a profile
Computer profiling
Ethics of profiling
Problems with profiling
The future of profiling
Profiling – a summary
Review what you have been learning
FINAL ASSESSMENT
How does this course work?
You can enrol at any time.
Once you have paid for the course, you will be able to start straight away.
Study when and where you like. Work through at your own pace.
You can download your study-guide to your smart phone, tablet or laptop to read offline.
There are automated self-assessment tests you can complete at the end
of each lesson. You can attempt these as many times as you wish and
each time, upon completion, you can see your results. You will need
internet access to complete the self assessment tests.
At the end of the course, you are presented with a large assessment
which can be attempted online, anywhere, anytime. If you achieve a 60%
pass in the exam; you immediately receive a downloadable certificate of
completion with your name on it.