Applied Child Psychology MSc

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¿Qué aprenderé?

COURSE SUMMARY

Since childhood plays such a huge role in shaping the rest of our lives, studying the mind and behaviour of children in order to support their physical, mental, intellectual and emotional growth can be both fascinating and rewarding.

Our MSc Applied Child Psychology will be of interest to anyone, UK-based or international, who currently works with or is interested in careers supporting children, from infancy to adolescence, in a professional or personal capacity in education, healthcare, childcare, forensic settings, such as courts, and leisure or voluntary settings, such as sports clubs and youth groups.

It will prepare you to design and conduct psychological research to assess children’s physical, cognitive and emotional development. This encompasses everything from memory capacity to how they learn language, use reasoning or imagination, feel and express their emotions, and interact with their peers and with adults.

Teaching is very much linked to practice, with multiple opportunities to work on research with other students and staff, capitalising on our expertise in areas as diverse as sensory and brain development disorders, such as ADHD and deafness; bullying and peer relationships in schools; legal topics like child witnesses; topics associated with gender; topics like religion and beliefs.

If you choose the optional placement, you will gain valuable experience, observing and reflecting on the ways in which different practitioners approach children’s issues, for example, within a school, charity or youth group. In legal settings, for instance, child psychologists are often consulted to make children feel more comfortable socially, physically and morally when testifying in court.

The Action Research project too offers a chance to tackle any issues of particular interest to you, opening up dialogue with relevant stakeholders and preparing your analysis and recommendations. For example, you may consider interventions for bullying within a school or how to improve information sharing with parents, teachers and other interested parties on matters ranging from mood disorders to gender identity. In doing so, you will develop essential transferable skills, learning to tailor communication and research to suit different audiences.

YOUR CAREER

This MSc has been designed to provide the psychological knowledge, tools and skills to work with children from infancy to young adulthood. This could lead to careers working with children and young people across the public, private and third sector, for example, working in education, research, social services, health services, health promotion, policy or advocacy.

Should you wish to continue your research, you will be well placed to pursue an academic or research career in developmental or educational psychology, for example, or by studying for a PhD or through relevant work experience.

The research expertise and range of transferable skills you will develop on this MSc, such as decision making, critical thinking, communication skills, data collection, analysis and research design are relevant to almost any profession, making you highly attractive to future employers.

¿En cuál departamento estoy?

Psychology

Opciones de estudio

a tiempo completo (1 )

Costos de estudio
£18.800,00 (US$ 23.676) por año
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Aplicaciones hasta

Esperado July 2024

Fecha de inicio

Esperado Septiembre 2024

Lugar

Keele University

Keele,

ST5 5BG, England

Requerimiento de entrada

Para estudiantes internacionales

This course is open to graduates with a first or upper second-class degree in psychology. Those who have studied childhood and family studies, working with children and families, child and youth, early years and childhood or an overseas equivalent are also encouraged to apply and an offer decision will be made on a case by case basis. IELTS 6.5 with a minimum of 6.0 in each component.

Puede haber diferentes requisitos de IELTS en función del curso elegido.

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