Mental Health in Children and Young People: Psychological Approaches MSc

Teaching is delivered in a variety of engaging and interactive formats, including lectures, seminars, clinical workshops and tutor-led online learning environments.

Students take three courses each semester.*

Courses include:

• Child Development in Practice
• Attachment: Theory and Application
• Research Methods in Applied Psychology
• Inferential Statistics in Applied Psychology (not being offered in 2019/20)*
• Social Inequality and Child and Adolescent Mental Health (online learning)
• Applied Developmental Psychopathology
• Evidence-Based Psychological Interventions
• Parenting: Theory and Practice
• Critical Psychology and Mental Health (online learning)
• Trauma and Resilience in a Developmental Context (online learning)

The programme also offers high-quality Continuing Professional Development (CPD) opportunities.

*(Revised 15 October to remove reference to part-time programme option - no longer offered.) *(Revised 16 March to inform course availability.)

The programme will enable you to:

• develop your practice through engagement with research and scholarship in psychological theory and practice
• develop advanced skills in the critical appraisal of psychological practice in the field of child and adolescent mental health
• develop and consolidate an extended knowledge base of theoretical and clinical approaches to psychological therapy for children, young people and families

The programme fosters transferable skills such as critical evaluation, research competence, teamworking and communication and is suitable for further PhD-level study, research or practitioner study. It will enhance the employability of those wishing to work with children and adolescents in mental health-relevant settings.

Previous students work in a range of professions including clinical practice and voluntary sector organisations, and, with appropriate additional training, in nursing, social work and social care, and teaching.

A UK 2:1 honours degree or its international equivalent in psychology or a related subject.

Experience of working or volunteering with children and/or young people is highly desirable.

We may also consider your application if you have other professional qualifications or experience; please contact us to check before you apply.

*Revised 16 October to reflect that working/volunteering experience is desirable, not mandatory.

International qualifications

Check whether your international qualifications meet our general entry requirements:

• Entry requirements by country

English language requirements

You must demonstrate a level of English language competency at a level that will enable you to succeed in your studies, regardless of your nationality or country of residence.

English language tests

We accept the following English language qualifications at the grades specified:

• IELTS: total 7.0 (at least 6.5 in each module)

• TOEFL-iBT: total 100 (at least 23 in each module)

• PTE Academic: total 67 (at least 61 in each of the "Communicative Skills" sections)

• CAE and CPE: total 185 (at least 176 in each module)

• Trinity ISE: ISE III with a pass in all four components

Your English language qualification must be no more than three and a half years old from the start date of the programme you are applying to study, unless you are using IELTS, TOEFL, PTE Academic or Trinity ISE, in which case it must be no more than two years old.

Degrees taught and assessed in English

We also accept an undergraduate or postgraduate degree that has been taught and assessed in English in a majority English speaking country, as defined by UK Visas and Immigration:

• UKVI list of majority English speaking countries

We also accept a degree that has been taught and assessed in English from a university on our list of approved universities in non-majority English speaking countries.

If you are not a national of a majority English speaking country, then your degree must be no more than three and a half years old at the beginning of your programme of study.*

(*Revised 8/11/2018 to provide more accurate information on English language qualifications expiry dates. Revised 22/03/2019 to provide more accurate/comprehensive information.)

Find out more about our language requirements:

• English language requirements

Read our general information on tuition fees and studying costs:

• Fees and costs

Search for scholarships and funding opportunities:

• Search for funding