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CAMH (Child and Adolescent Mental Health)

Develop knowledge on evidence-based practice in ways that will impact on the workplace and on outcomes for the children and young people in those services.

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Key Course Details

  • Start Date

    September

  • Location

    Newport

  • Campus Code

    C

Fees

  • Home students

    £1,200*

  • Full-time fees are per year. Part-time fees are per 20 credits.

The Postgraduate Certificate CAMH (Child and Adolescent Mental Health) is distinctive in that it provides a non-clinical route for generalist and more specialist practitioners, managers and researchers to develop their knowledge of CAMH.

DESIGNED FOR

The course aims to produce professionals who are able to engage with the complexities of this area of work, often managing demanding workloads in multi-agency setting whilst still prioritising the interests of the children and families they work with.

Career Paths

  • Children’s Services

Skills taught

  • Critical Thinking
  • Research
  • Leadership

Module Overview

Overview

Students will take two 30-credit modules, which will include at least one of the following specialist modules:

CAMH: Contexts and Concepts
This has a theoretical focus and introduces students to key concepts within CAMH, and develops their ability to look critically at CAMH issues in context, looking for example at the concepts of risk and protective factors in relation to good outcomes for children and young people.

Managing and Supporting CAMH and SEBD
This looks more at theory of practice and develops students’ ability to look critically at the range of approaches to prevention and interventions through an exploration of a range of approaches and evidence-based interventions.

Optional modules

  • Promoting Excellence in Learning and Teaching 
  • Working with Diversity 
  • Leading and Managing SEN / ALN 
  • Dissertation 
  • Research Methodology 
  • TESOL: Designing Language Learning and Teaching 
  • TESOL Language Use and Acquisition 
  • TESOL: Materials for Language Professionals 
  • Developing Professional Practices: Literacy and Communication 
  • Developing Professional Practices: Numeracy and Mathematics 
  • Investigating Literacy, Numeracy and Language Learning across the Curriculum 
  • Innovation in Curriculum Design 
  • Learning Through Mentoring 
  • Working with More Able and Talented Learners 
  • Working with Vulnerable Groups 
  • Autism: Contexts and Concepts 
  • Developing Digital Competence 
  • Developing Learning in Organisations 
  • Developing People in Organisations 
  • Dyslexia: Theory and Assessment (AMBDA) 
  • Dyslexia: Theory and Assessment (ATS) 
  • International Perspectives on Early Childhood 
  • Managing and Supporting Autism 
  • Professional Learning 
  • Professional Learning through Action Research 
  • SEN/ALN: Contexts and Concepts 
  • Working with Dyslexia: Linking Theory, Assessment and Practice (AMBDA) 
  • Working with Dyslexia: Linking Theory, Assessment and Practice (ATS) 
  • Working with Dyslexia

Course Highlights

How you’ll learn

The CAMH course provides students with the knowledge, skills and understanding to develop as reflective practitioners. This is reflected in both the content and the process of the course. 

The course is delivered on Monday and Tuesday evenings and each module is broken down into 10 sessions of three hours each.

Teaching staff

Rebecca Haycock, course leader

Taught sessions are supported by independent study and individual tutorials.

Facilities

The Newport City Campus offers an attractive and modern learning environment with access to specialist learning resources, study skills support and a range of student services.

Careers and Employability

Graduate careers

The majority of applicants will be professionals working in Children’s Services (education, health and social care) who would like to develop their expertise in relation to CAMH issues as they find themselves working with children and young people with a greater range of more complex difficulties.

Possible career paths

As professional development it is intended that undertaking the CAMH course will support promotion within a service and/or a move into a more specialist role.

Careers support

Careers Support

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS

Typical qualification requirements:

  • A good first degree is preferred but experience is greatly valued.
  • For students choosing modules which have a placement component as part of the assessment process, you will need to provide evidence of a current enhanced DBS check (or its equivalent if you are an EU or international student)

 

Additional requirements include:

An informal discussion with the course tutor will be arranged after application.

International applications welcomed:

We welcome international applications with equivalent qualifications of our entry requirements. For more details related to your country of residence, please view our dedicated country pages.

English language requirements

International applicants will need to have achieved an overall of IELTS 6.0 with a minimum of 5.5 in each component/TOEFL 72 overall and a minimum of 18 in reading, 17 in listening, 20 in speaking and 17 in writing or equivalent.

Equivalents can be located on our English Language pages.

If you have previously studied through the medium of English, IELTS might not be required, please visit our country specific page for further details. If your country is not featured, please contact us.

If you do not meet the English entry criteria, please visit our Pre-Sessional course pages.

Contextual offers

We may make you a lower offer based on a range of factors, including your background (where you live and the school or college that you attended, for example), your experiences and individual circumstances (as a care leaver, for example). This is referred to as a contextual offer, and we receive data from UCAS to support us in making these decisions.

USW prides itself on its student experience and we support our students to achieve their goals and become a successful graduate. This approach helps us to support students who have the potential to succeed and who may have faced barriers that make it more difficult to access university.

 

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Fees and Funding

UK Part-time Fee

£1,200

per 20 credits*

Further Information

Studying at university is one of the most significant investments you'll ever make. Whilst you’re studying, you’ll have two main financial obligations – tuition fees and living costs. There’s lots of financial help available from the University of South Wales and external funding sources, that may provide loans (which have to be paid back) and grants, scholarships and bursaries (that don't).

*Full-time fees are per year. Part-time fees are per 20 credits. Once enrolled, the fee is anticipated to remain at the same rate throughout the duration of your study on this course except as described below.

Please be aware that we may increase the maximum fee for home students on full-time undergraduate courses only where the Welsh Government increases the permitted level of inflation of fees. Fees for all students (including part-time, postgraduate and international students) may be amended in accordance with our applicable Fees and Debt Management Policy.  We will ensure that students are given clear, intelligible, unambiguous and timely information about our courses and costs in good time, ahead of the next academic year.

 

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If during a review process course content is significantly changed, we’ll write to inform you and talk you through the changes for the coming year. But whatever the outcome, we aim to equip our students with the skillset and the mindset to succeed whatever tomorrow may bring. Your future, future-proofed.

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How to apply

There is an online application process for this course. Please choose the application form for your preferred start date and mode of study (i.e. full-time or part-time).

International admissions

Please see our international admissions advice for further information about how to apply as a prospective international student.