Online Child Adolescent Mental Health Degree :: Accredited Universities

This course aims to equip you with a sound knowledge and understanding of a range of topics in child and adolescent health; to use this to underpin your existing practical experience with evidence-based expertise and develop an appreciation of the strengths and limitations of research evidence and, at Masters stage, its application; to enable students to enhance their careers in the field of child and adolescent mental health.

Entry Requirements

The course is aimed at professionals currently working with children. The prerequisites to entry are; a second-class honours degree or equivalent professional qualification from a recognised university or college; or an equivalent academic or professional qualification that involves the care of, or working with children and adolescents (including doctors, nurses, primary mental health workers, teachers, social workers, therapists, youth workers and other voluntary sector staff). Where relevant, an IELTS score of 6.5 with 7.0 for writing is required.

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This course aims to equip you with a sound knowledge and understanding of a range of topics in child and adolescent health; to use this to underpin your existing practical experience with evidence-based expertise and develop an appreciation of the strengths and limitations of research evidence and, at Masters stage, its application; to enable students to enhance their careers in the field of child and adolescent mental health.

Entry Requirements

The course is aimed at professionals currently working with children. The prerequisites to entry are; a second-class honours degree or equivalent professional qualification from a recognised university or college; or an equivalent academic or professional qualification that involves the care of, or working with children and adolescents (including doctors, nurses, primary mental health workers, teachers, social workers, therapists, youth workers and other voluntary sector staff). Where relevant, an IELTS score of 6.5 with 7.0 for writing is required.

Other Fees

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The MA Health and Wellbeing is designed to meet the career development needs of health and social care professionals in the UK.

The course will increase your awareness of the social, technological, economic, political and environmental changes taking place within health and social care, whether in the public, private or voluntary sectors, enabling you to take your career to the next stage.

Special features
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The course is delivered online which means you can fit your studies around your work and personal committments wherever you are in the world

The course content contributes to the development of the six core dimensions in the NHS Knowledge and Skills Framework (KSF): communication; personal and people development; health, safety and security; quality; and equality and diversity

Your will also have the opportunity to study modules in more specialised areas, such as child and adolescent mental health, diabetes and infomatics

Entry Requirements

2:1 honours degree, or equivalent OR

Postgraduate diploma award or a professional qualification recognised as being equivalent to an honours degree

Applicants with a 2:2 honours degree or below, an ordinary degree or DipHE in a relevant subject, plus relevant professional experience may also be considered.

Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) and/or Accreditation of
Prior Certificated Learning (APCL) may also be claimed.

All students should be in employment and/or engaged in voluntary activities

Other Fees

Tuition fee for Scottish and EU/EAA - £4,590

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The MSc in Mental Health and Well-being of Children, Young People and Families is a new fully online programme, offering study in psychological aspects attached to psychosocial well-being and mental health promotion during development.

The programme offers the core elements of theory and research in mental health and well-being promotion in a developmental context. It fosters a critical and reflective approach to the application of these elements in a broad variety of settings including education, health, international development, and public health.

The programme will enable graduates and professionals from different professional backgrounds (such as clinical, educational, social services, public health, policy making, non-governmental organizations and international development) to:

- Develop their knowledge through engagement with research and scholarship in psychological theory and practice

- Develop skills in the critical appraisal of psychological practice in the field of child, adolescent and family mental health and well-being promotion

- Develop and consolidate an extended knowledge base of theoretical and applied approaches to mental health and well-being for children and young people

Core courses will be both conceptual and applied. At the conceptual level, the programme will review different theories of human well-being across the lifespan including psychological factors involved in the complex structure of healthy child development. At the applied level it will include a critical appraisal of the current evidence base and psychological practice, a review of the World Health Organization guidelines and the most recent approaches of mental health promotion.

Distinctive features of this degree include:

- The critical integration of clinical and professional practice with current theoretical and empirical developments in the evidence base for, and delivery of, mental health programmes for children and young people

- Flexibility of delivery

- Opportunities for knowledge exchange between range of graduates and practitioners from multi-professional backgrounds

- Many opportunities for the synthesis of theory, evidence and practice

The degree may be taken as Cert / Dip or MSc in Mental Health and Well-being of Children, Young People and Families. Courses will also be offered separately as Continuing Professional Development modules for graduate students and practitioners.

In contrast with the other programmes offered by Clinical Psychology, it is to be delivered fully online. The team behind this proposal have solid experience of online education, and includes two experienced e-learning developers. The online format is ideal for reaching a broad range of international professionals seeking advanced training in psychological aspects related to psychosocial well-being during development.

Entry Requirements

Applicants for the programme will be considered on an individual basis. Guidelines for likely acceptance onto the course are possession of an undergraduate degree or equivalent (reaching SCQF level 9).

Where an applicant’s undergraduate degree does not meet the level stated above or is not obviously related to subjects relevant to children and young people’s development and/or mental health, they may be admitted at the discretion of the programme director so long as they have current or recent work experience providing clinical/clinically relevant experience of children and young people in mental health settings, including statutory and voluntary organisations.

Suitability will be established through:

- the completion of a personal statement submitted via the application form

- two references which address how the applicant meets the academic and/or relevant experience requirements

- an online interview, designed to determine suitability and relevant experience (where appropriate)

English language requirements
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If English is not your first language, you must have one of the following qualifications as evidence of your spoken and written English.

- IELTS Academic module: 6.5 (with at least 6.0 in each section)

Other accepted tests and scores

- TOEFL-iBT: 92 (with at least 20 in all sections)

- PTE: 61 (with no score lower than 56 in each of the 'Communicative Skills' sections - 'Enabling Skills' section scores are not considered)

- CPE: Grade B; CAE: Grade A

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CQUniversity's postgraduate offerings in mental health nursing are ideal for Registered Nurses who are looking to gain specialist qualifications for roles in various health care sectors working with people experiencing mental health problems.

You will gain an understanding of contemporary topics and issues relevant to all mental health clinicians, including recovery, physical treatments and psycho-social and educational interventions, interpersonal communication and dual diagnosis. Course content is focused on mental health care across various settings including inpatient, primary care, community, and specialist services such as forensic, child and adolescent, and aged care.

The masters program is the final of three study steps that begins with the graduate certificate, followed by the graduate diploma. The masters program aims to enable graduates to apply advanced knowledge of state and national strategic directions for mental health care and provide the necessary skills to practice as a mental health clinician in all health care settings. In addition, you will gain an appreciation of the holistic nature of mental health care including the cultural, spiritual, social, biological and psychological features of illness and health. There is also focus on the delivery of appropriate care for Australia’s ethnic and multicultural society.

Designed to enable registered nurses to continue working throughout their studies, the mental health nursing programs are offered by distance education, with extensive support through online resources as well as access to help and guidance offered by nationally and internationally renowned academic staff at CQUniversity.

Entry Requirements

To gain entry into postgraduate programs in mental health nursing you must have both:

English communications skills equivalent to Year 11 and 12 completion- English (4, SA)

qualification as a registered nurse in Australia.

Other Fees

Overseas examination fees

Textbooks

Student Services and Amenities Fee (Max. $281/year)

Incidental unit costs

Notes

There are compulsory residential schools for some courses.

You are required to complete a total of 6 core courses plus your choice of of three options

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