Behaviour Profiling – Short Course

BEHAVIOURAL PROFILING SHORT COURSE

Many people assume behavioural profiling is only used in the fields of criminal and forensics. However, profiling is being used more and more for recruitment, human resources, deciding on the best candidate to promote, educational purposes and much more.

Profiling is a useful technique to help find out more about people – how to decide the ideal candidate for a particular job, the particular personal traits shown by criminals, personality traits and qualities shown by children with special educational needs and so on.

A profile helps us to outline what a person is really like, their personality traits and characteristics. It can help us to determine

• If a person is suitable for a particular role or profession
• Whether they have a particular characteristic, such as intelligence or narcissism
• Whether they have a particular personality disorder or behaviour pattern, such as Type A Behaviour Pattern or Antisocial Personality Disorder.
• Their mental health state
• If they have any clinical conditions

It can also help in other ways, such as

• What type of customer will buy a particular product.
• What type of characteristics a child with special educational needs may display

This 20 hour short course gives you an insight into the use of profiling in different settings – education, customer profiling, marketing, criminal behaviour and recruitment.

What You’ll Learn In Short Course

Course Content

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

Features:

• Enrol any time of day or night.
• Start studying immediately or later (as you wish).
• Configure your study sessions at any length and frequency you wish.
• Work through at your own pace.
• Help desk- contact our help desk here with the subject title: ‘Help Desk Short Course’.
• Automated self assessment tests pop up 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 whole course, you are presented with a major automated examination 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.

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