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Child and Adolescent Mental Health at Leeds Beckett University - UCAS

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2024 - 20252025 - 2026
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Course summary

Develop the skillset to support children and young people who are experiencing mental health related issues. As part of this course you’ll:

  • Gain the skills to work with children and young people who are experiencing mental health related issues
  • Develop a critical and in-depth understanding of mental health and its relationship to children, young people and families within a changing and fluid society
  • Explore medical and psychological models of practice and look at child and adolescent mental health from the position of social intervention
  • Learn to draw on key interventions such as social pedagogy, relationship-based practice, playwork and community work as methodologies
  • Use the social model of mental health and children and family practice to contribute to and co-produce knowledge in a collaborative, practical and participatory learning environment.
Develop your network Learn via lectures and seminars, and workshops that will develop your peer-learning networks. You’ll be taught by dedicated practitioners from Leeds’ Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services who will share their professional experience to enhance your learning. Learn transferable skills You’ll gain a range of in-demand transferable skills. Your deep understanding of this area of professional practice, coupled with your academic learning, will prime you to enter contemporary health and social care practice. Balance your studies Your course will be delivered on one day a week so you can balance your studies with your existing commitments. Why study Child and Adolescent Mental Health at Leeds Beckett University...
  • Engage with child and adolescent mental health practitioners
  • The course is delivered by committed academic staff who are research active
  • Part-time option available.

Entry requirements

Applicants should either have at least a second class honours degree in a relevant professional subject area of Youth Work, Nursing, Social Work or Education, at least a second class honours degree in the cognate academic subjects of Health and Social Care or Social Sciences, or have equivalent health and social care practitioner experience or relevant professional vocational training.

Fees and funding

Tuition fees

No fee information has been provided for this course

Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .

Additional fee information

Please see www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk for fee information.
Child and Adolescent Mental Health at Leeds Beckett University - UCAS