American Psychological Association Courses

Career Certificate

Eating, Sleep, Trauma, and Somatic Symptom Disorders

37 ratings at Coursera

Analyze how trauma-, somatic symptom-, eating-, and sleep-related disorders manifest, from PTSD and dissociation to bulimia, anorexia, insomnia and narcolepsy, plus their evidence-based treatment frameworks.

• Coursera
• 12 weeks, 5 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 3 courses

Disorders Related To Trauma

34 ratings at Coursera

Explore the nature and types of trauma and the disorders it can cause — PTSD, acute stress disorder, dissociative disorders — through case studies, diagnosis, resilience, and treatment.

• Coursera
• 8 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Observational Methods and Qualitative Data Analysis

28 ratings at Coursera

Learn to conduct ethnographic inquiry and case study research through participant observation, then analyze the data with initial, focused, and axial coding and the constant comparative method.

• Coursera
• 8 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Psychology of the Self

26 ratings at Coursera

Explore how self-concept, self-motives, and self-esteem shape thoughts and behavior, and practice self-regulation techniques for managing emotions, curbing impulses, and reaching goals.

• Coursera
• 9 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Social Psychology of Attraction and Relationships

24 ratings at Coursera

Examine how attraction and relationships work: impression formation, the determinants of initial liking, types of love, and models of relationship satisfaction and dissolution.

• Coursera
• 10 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Psychology of Group Behaviors

22 ratings at Coursera

Explore how groups shape thought and action: social facilitation, social loafing, deindividuation, conformity, the bystander effect, group polarization, and groupthink, and ways to manage their effects.

• Coursera
• 9 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Better Learning

20 ratings at Coursera

Apply cognitive psychology research to your studying: use elaboration, focused learning, spaced learning, and retrieval practice to encode and recall information better.

• Coursera
• 12 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Interviewing Methods

19 ratings at Coursera

Explore qualitative interviewing in psychology: phenomenology, narrative inquiry, and constructivist grounded theory, plus structured and unstructured interview approaches and best practices for the researcher as instrument.

• Coursera
• 8 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Less Stress, Better Health

18 ratings at Coursera

Learn what stress is physiologically and psychologically, how it damages thoughts, relationships, cardiovascular and immune health, and how to reduce it and build resilience.

• Coursera
• 9 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

The Psychology of Gender and Sexuality

16 ratings at Coursera

Explore how sex characteristics develop from prenatal life through climacteric, how gender identity and norms form across cultures, and how sexual identity, behavior, and romance unfold.

• Coursera
• 13 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Better Writing

14 ratings at Coursera

Work through the writing process from prewriting to polishing: research and cite sources, craft paragraphs, apply punctuation rules, avoid plagiarism and biased language, and beat writer's block.

• Coursera
• 10 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Positive Psychology: The Science of Happiness

14 ratings at Coursera

Explore scientifically validated pathways to happiness: factors of subjective well-being, gratitude and mindfulness practices, the World Happiness Report, and why prosocial helping behavior boosts life satisfaction.

• Coursera
• 10 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

The Psychology of Decision Making

12 ratings at Coursera

Explore how schemas, heuristics and biases, goals, persuasion, conformity, groupthink and stereotypes shape your choices, and learn to anticipate and correct predictable decision errors.

• Coursera
• 11 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Career Certificate

Basic Inferential Statistics for Psychology

10 ratings at Coursera

Learn to test hypotheses in psychological research: null hypothesis significance testing with the z-test, t-tests of means, and chi-square tests of frequency tables.

• Coursera
• 12 weeks, 5 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 3 courses

Career Certificate

Data Exploration in Psychology

10 ratings at Coursera

Explore psychological data with descriptive statistics: structure data sets in statistical software, build frequency distributions, and compute central tendency, variability, correlation, and contingency.

• Coursera
• 12 weeks, 5 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 4 courses