Child and Adolescent Mental Health - MSc

London Metropolitan University

Master

In London

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Description

  • Type

    Master

  • Location

    London

  • Duration

    1 Year

This Child and Adolescent Mental Health MSc course will provide you with an up-to-date scientific and academic knowledge that will allow you to pursue a career in children's mental health across health, social care, education and youth justice.

The course will guide you to develop an understanding of recent developments in the child and adolescent mental health field and help you to acquire skills useful in identifying and managing a wide range of mental health problems.

You'll develop the ability to conduct research and scholarly analysis focused on children and adolescent mental health. You'll also learn about psychological and developmental processes that contribute to children's positive and negative mental health and explore ways in which your knowledge can contribute to policy making in this field.

The course will be taught by practitioners, researchers and scholars in the child psychology and mental health fields. The teaching will contribute to your training needs and help you develop skills relating to the assessment, management and treatment of child and adolescent disorders.

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Location

Start date

London
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31 Jewry Street, EC3N 2EY

Start date

On request

About this course

This MSc degree offers an opportunity for comprehensive study in the field of mental health and educational issues of children and adolescents. You'll consider theoretical and practical issues relating to the main factors influencing paediatric mental health from biological, social, cultural and psychological perspectives. It will enable you to pursue or advance your career in teaching or mental health.

a minimum of a lower second-class (2.2) honours degree in the area of social sciences, health, education and human sciences.

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Subjects

  • Psychology
  • Mental Health
  • Developmental psychology
  • Developmental
  • Adolescent Developmental
  • Child
  • Adolescent Developmental Psychology
  • Policy and Ethics
  • Law
  • Learning and Education
  • Psychopathology

Course programme

Modular structure

The modules listed below are for the academic year 2020/21 and represent the course modules at this time. Modules and module details (including, but not limited to, location and time) are subject to change over time.

Year 1 modules include:
  • Child and Adolescent Developmental Psychology (core, 20 credits)
  • Law, Policy and Ethics (core, 20 credits)
  • Psychology of Learning and Education (core, 20 credits)
  • Psychopathology (core, 20 credits)
  • Research Design and Analysis for Psychology (core, 20 credits)
  • Research Project (core, 60 credits)
  • Resilience and Mindfulness (core, 20 credits)
Assessment
  • The course is assessed through a variety of tasks that will allow you to demonstrate your academic knowledge through mechanisms that support career-ready skills.
  • You'll be assessed through essays, case studies, oral presentations, critical and systematic reviews, qualitative and quantitative research reports.

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