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
• tutor-led online learning environments

Students take three courses each semester.

Semester 1 courses

• Applied Developmental Psychopathology
• Research Methods in Applied Psychology
• Typical and Atypical Development

Semester 2 courses

In Semester 2, students take 3 from the following option courses:

• Attachment, Wellbeing and Mental Health
• Evidence-Based Psychological Interventions
• Inferential Statistics in Applied Psychology
• Parenting: Theory & Practice

You can also opt to take online courses from the MSc Mental Health in Children and Young People: Psychological Approaches (online) programme:

• Social Inequality and Child and Adolescent Mental Health (Semester 1)
• Child Migration and Mental Health (Semester 2)

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

Find out more about compulsory and optional courses

We link to the latest information available. Please note that this may be for a previous academic year and should be considered indicative.

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
• communication

The programme 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.

These entry requirements are for the 2024/25 academic year and requirements for future academic years may differ. Entry requirements for the 2025/26 academic year will be published on 1 Oct 2024.

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

Students from China

This degree is Band C.

• Postgraduate entry requirements for students from China

International qualifications

Check whether your international qualifications meet our general entry requirements:

• Entry requirements by country

English language requirements

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

English language tests

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

• IELTS Academic: total 7.0 with at least 6.5 in each component.
• TOEFL-iBT (including Home Edition): total 100 with at least 23 in each component. We do not accept TOEFL MyBest Score to meet our English language requirements.
• C1 Advanced (CAE) / C2 Proficiency (CPE): total 185 with at least 176 in each component.
• Trinity ISE: ISE III with passes in all four components.
• PTE Academic: total 70 with at least 62 in each component.

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, Trinity ISE or PTE, 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 (non-MESC).

• Approved universities in non-MESC

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.

Find out more about our language requirements:

• English language requirements

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