Courses
Clinical Psychology offers a varied Continuing Professional Development (CPD) programme for practitioners working in the field of mental health.
CPD and option courses
All courses combine professional relevance with academic theory and have been designed so that participants can accumulate credits towards a postgraduate degree, such as the MSc in Children and Young People’s Mental Health and Psychological Practice.
Over the next academic year we are offering fifteen courses as CPD opportunities and option courses. These courses provide a variety of classroom-based, online and workshops learning opportunities.
The following courses are delivered as distance learning options:
- Mental Health Promotion for Children, Young People and Families
- Critical Psychology and Child Mental Health
- Early Years and Early Intervention for Practitioners
- Social Inequality and Child and Adolescent Mental Health
- Trauma & Resilience
- Understanding Learning Disability (Intellectual Disability)
- Approaches to Behaviours that Challenge (Intellectual Disability)
The following courses are delivered using blended learning. They combine classroom-based or face-to-face teaching with workshops and online study:
- Applied Developmental Psychopathology
- Parenting: Theory & Practice
- Systemic and Family Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Children and Young People (cyCBT) - Theory and Practice
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Children and Young People (cyCBT) - Supervised Practice
- Child Development in Practice
- Evidence-based Psychological Interventions
- Attachment Theory in Clinical Settings
- Interpersonal Psychotherapy - Adolescent
Certain courses have specific work experience requirements in addition to the entry requirements. Please see individual course descriptions for further details:
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Children and Young People (cyCBT) - Theory and Practice
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Children and Young People (cyCBT) - Supervised Practice
- Understanding Learning Disability (Intellectual Disability)
- Approaches to Behaviours that Challenge (Intellectual Disability)
- Interpersonal Psychotherapy - Adolescent
This article was published on Dec 11, 2012