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Overview
Master the skills to address growing health crisis in children
This course will develop your understanding of the underlying causes behind the growing issue of poor health and wellbeing in children.
You will study child development and behaviour and explore the ways in which family and environmental influences effect emotional and cognitive development. The programme will include discussions around identity and tackle important subjects such as loss, bereavement, risk and climate anxiety.
On this course, you will master the skills to address the current crisis in children’s mental health, developing effective communication skills while gaining an understanding of the importance of inclusive practice.
By the end of the course, you will gain a qualification which will enable you to work with children and families in this key area of current and growing need.
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The Course
Develop your skills and knowledge of working with children with health issues
The course provides the opportunity to gain professional practice experience making clear links between theory and therapeutic practice.
You will be guided through a thought-provoking range of modules that are specifically designed to increase your understanding of children’s health and wellbeing.
Study areas include:
- Children and Young People’s Mental Health
- Special Educational Needs
- Childhood, Poverty and Sustainability
- Working Therapeutically with Families
- Loss and Bereavement
Modules
Year One
• Introduction to Childhood
• Culture, Diversity and Overcoming Prejudice
• Child Development
• Children’s Health and Wellbeing
• Play and Creativity
Year Two
• Childhood, Poverty and Sustainability
• How to Research
• Understanding Children’s Behaviour
• Children’s Health and Immunisations
• Children, Families and Communities
• Children’s health – eat, sleep, move, relax
Year Three
• Independent Project with focus on Children’s Mental Health
• SEND
• Therapeutic Play / Digital Child
• Supporting Children’s Mental Health
• Crime and Childhood / Outdoor Learning
Teaching and Assessment
Supportive staff who are experts in the field
Teaching
You will learn from expert practitioners and accomplished academics with a wide range of experience within the field of Childhood Studies.
We bring new research together with established theory into the classroom through a mix of direct teaching, seminars, and activity-based learning.
Within your learning sessions, you will be challenged to go further and be encouraged to be proactive, responsive and responsible for your own learning and ideas outside of the classroom.
Our focus on group discussion and the consideration of the thoughts of others allow you to develop your own ideas.
Assessment
It is important that our assessments are designed to meet the various learning needs of students.
We offer a variety of assessment methods that include presentations, assignments, exams, academic posters and placement portfolios.
Experience
Discover facilities that help support your learning
Close community
Our commitment to a friendly and close-knit student community contributes to a high degree of success for our graduates.
Learning Resource Centre
The Learning Resource Centre (LRC) contains the library, a café, IT/teaching rooms, and the Support and Information Zone (SIZ).
Library
Our campus library holds more than 200,000 books and over 500,000 eBooks.
Expert staff
Learn from expert and experienced teaching staff who are here to support your needs.
Subject specific librarians
If you have difficulty finding material for an essay, seminar or project, subject librarians will be happy to provide assistance.
Study Abroad
Explore the opportunity to study part of your course abroad
As a student at the University of Chichester, you can explore opportunities to study abroad during your studies as you enrich and broaden your educational experiences.
Students who have undertaken this in the past have found it to be an amazing experience to broaden their horizons, a great opportunity to meet new people, undertake further travelling and to immerse themselves within a new culture.
You will be fully supported throughout the process to help find the right destination institution for you and your course. We can take you through everything that you will need to consider, from visas to financial support, to help ensure that you can get the best out of your time studying abroad.
Careers
Where this course can take you
The programme is designed with professionals from the industry in response to the growing crisis in children’s health and wellbeing.
Graduates with a specialism in children’s mental health will be uniquely placed to enter a workforce that is currently understaffed, achieving a qualification which addresses the skills desired by employers in the sector.
This course would offer career or post-graduate progression into:
- Social work
- Play therapy
- Teaching
- Mental health nursing
Course Costs
Course Fees 2024/25
UK fee
International fee
For further details about fees, please see our Tuition Fees page.
For further details about international scholarships, please see our Scholarships page.
To find out about any additional costs on this course, please see our Additional Costs page.
Course specific costs
You will be required to have a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check costing £40 which needs to be paid for before the start of the course.
Entry Requirements
UCAS
A Levels
BTEC
Cambridge Technical
CACHE Level 3 Diploma
T Level
GCSE
Access to HE Diploma
IB
DBS
BA (Hons) Children’s Mental Health and Wellbeing applicants are required to have an enhanced Disclosure Barring Service check which needs to be paid for before the start of the course.
We strongly suggest that all students sign up for the Disclosure and Barring Service update service for which there is a small annual charge, this makes the DBS portable both during and after the degree.
Failure to sign up for the update service might require the student to gain a further enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check which will incur additional costs.
Contextual offers
We believe everyone deserves an equal opportunity to pursue higher education, regardless of their background.
When we receive your application we consider your personal circumstances and the factors surrounding your achievements to see if you are eligible for a contextual offer. This is an offer with a reduced entry tariff – typically the equivalent of 16 fewer UCAS points (two A-level grades).
Find out more about our contextual offers.
