Course summary

• Understand the determinants of emotional wellbeing for children and young people.
• Apply your skills and knowledge in early interventions with families.
• Gain postgraduate qualifications from PgCert to MSc via distance learning.
• Work effectively with children, young people and families with mental health issues.

On this course, you’ll develop your knowledge of mental health for children, adolescents and families around an existing role. You’ll consider the factors which affect emotional health from an early age, and focus on a specific area in a dissertation. When you graduate, you’ll be ready for a rewarding, specialist role within mental health.

How you learn

All our courses are designed around a set of key principles based on engaging you with the world, collaborating with others, challenging you to think in new ways, and providing you with a supportive environment in which you can thrive.

Throughout the course, you’ll access and explore learning materials online, at your own pace. Theoretical models and principles will be explored alongside practical interventions and approaches.

Core modules consider the factors that influence emotional health, as well as conditions, interventions, health promotion and research. Other modules can be selected based upon your role and interests, and a dissertation module allows you to consolidate and focus your learning.

You learn through:

• flexible distance learning
• stimulating and up-to-date online materials
• guidance from experienced staff
• online interactions with fellow students
• formative and summative assessments
• production of a health promotion resource.

Future careers

This course prepares you for a career in

• mental health practice with children, adolescents and families
• mental health linking
• mental health liaison
• consultation
• teaching/training
• mental health project work/research.