Assessment method

Learning is challenging, interactive and focused on the practicalities of effective support for children and young people with SEMH needs. You'll carry out critical reviews of approaches, policy and guidance on SEMH difficulties. You'll look at emotional development and instances that can impact on socio-emotional development. You will look at mental health issues and the therapies to alleviate them. In your first year you'll engage with psychological understandings of SEMH, current legislation, SEMH assessment, practical interventions and neuroscientific research. You’ll explore how the ‘social model’ of understanding of SEMH contrasts with the ‘medical model’. You may now choose to exit the course with the award of PG Cert: Social Emotional Mental Health Difficulties. In the second year you'll begin a critical exploration of: trauma anger management self-harm eating disorders bereavement anxiety depression emotional development attachment theory autistic spectrum conditions. You'll also study the ecology of SEMH difficulties and a research methods module.