Behaviour Analysis Supervised Practice
The Postgraduate Diploma in Behaviour Analysis offers a unique opportunity to gain experience in behaviour analysis under the close supervision of a UKBA (cert).
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Key Course Details
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Start Date
September
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Location
Pontypridd
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Campus Code
A
Fees
Home students
£7,200*
International students
£11,267*
- Full-time fees are per year. Part-time fees are per 20 credits.
The course is designed to provide you with experience in the ethical application of behaviour analytic assessment and intervention strategies across a range of settings and populations.
DESIGNED FOR
Students who are currently enrolled in or have completed a masters course in Behaviour Analysis and are committed to pursuing certification as a behaviour analyst in the UK.
Career paths
- Working within the NHS
- Working within Education
- Positive Behaviour Support Practitioner
- Independent Consultant
- Behaviour Analysis Researcher
Skills taught
- Advanced problem solving
- Advanced evidence-based solution finding
- Research and evaluation
- Advanced scientific reasoning
- Professional communication
Course Highlights
Module Overview
This course is among only few in the UK to offer a practicum option for supervised practice, providing a unique opportunity to gain a sophisticated, critical understanding of the application of behaviour analytic principles within a range of settings. On successful completion of the course, you’ll meet the practice competencies that are required by the UK Society for Behaviour Analysis (UK-SBA). Throughout your placements, you will be working within three modules that help you focus on the competencies you will be required to meet for professional certification.
Supervised Practice in Behaviour Analysis
You will develop your foundational behaviour analysis assessment and intervention strategies, learn how to ethically apply and communicate these strategies across various settings and situations.
Behaviour Analysis in Practice
We will look at applying core behaviour analytic strategies (identified by the UKBA [cert] supervision and competence standards) across a range of settings, populations, and behaviour problems.
Advanced Experience in Behaviour Analysis
You will develop advanced competencies in behaviour analysis, including assessment and intervention strategies that might be highly specialised to particular populations, settings, or behaviours.
Course Highlights
How you’ll learn
As a placement-based course, you will participate in a selection of placements across diverse settings, dedicating approximately 20 hours per week to hands-on experience. Throughout the program, you will receive guidance and support from our doctoral-level supervisors. By meeting the established competency standards, you will become eligible to apply for full qualification as a behaviour analyst in the UK.
Assessment methods include clinical reports, reflective evaluations of placement experiences, case reviews, and performance-based evaluations during placements.
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Teaching staff
You will be taught by a team of UKBA (certified) and Board Certified Behaviour Analysts who are internationally recognised for their research and clinical contributions to the field. Their expertise encompasses areas such as education, classroom management, language development, and staff training. With over 30 years of combined experience as educators, researchers, and clinicians, they bring a wealth of knowledge and practical insight to your learning experience.
- Dr Emily Groves, Course Leader
- Dr Aimee Giles
- Dr Richard May
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Placements
On this placement-based course, you will rotate placements approximately every six months, which will allow you to support people with a range of challenging behaviours with behaviour analytic assessment and intervention strategies. Clients may include individuals with various disorders or difficulties, including autism, learning disabilities, social and emotional difficulties, ADHD, and antisocial behaviour. Settings may include schools, the NHS Learning Disability Service, and residential treatment centres.
The teaching team will arrange your placements, including external placements and a guaranteed internal placement in the University’s Behaviour Analysis Clinic, where you will assist in providing early intervention therapy to young children with autism. We are the only University in the UK to have an on-campus behaviour analysis clinic.
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Facilities
We are the only University in the UK to have an on-campus Behaviour Analysis Clinic. All students will have the opportunity to work at the Early Intervention Service. We also have several off-campus placements, with current and previous placements including mainstream and special schools, the National Health Service, HMP Parc, and specialised behaviour analysis consulting groups.
Our Cognitive Neuropsychology Suite houses specialist psychology equipment such as eye tracking equipment, EEG (electroencephalogram) and ECG (electrocardiogram) facilities.
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ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
Typical qualification requirements:
Students must be currently enrolled or have completed an MSc course in Behaviour Analysis to apply for this programme. Students without such MSc qualifications should note that this programme does not cover taught curriculum requirements required for UKBA certification and should consider our companion programme MSc Behaviour Analysis and Therapy to complete this requirement.
Additional Requirements:
An Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check on the Child & Adult Workforce and Child & Adult Barring List and subscription to the DBS Update Service is required. (Overseas equivalent required for non-uk applicants).
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.
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Fees and Funding
£7,200
per year*£11,267
per year*Additional Costs
As a student of USW, you’ll have access to lots of free resources to support your study and learning, such as textbooks, publications, online journals, laptops, and plenty of remote-access resources. Whilst in most cases these resources are more than sufficient in supporting you with completing your course, additional costs, both obligatory and optional, may be required or requested for the likes of travel, memberships, experience days, stationery, printing, or equipment.
*Obligatory.
Students will be expected to pay for a DBS or certificate of good behaviour from their home country. The DBS fee includes £49.50 for the enhanced DBS certificate, the Post Office Administration fee and the online administration fee
Cost: £64.74
Subscription required for each year of the course for a yearly fee of £16. Please note the service has to be joined within 30 days of receipt of your enhanced DBS certificate
Cost: £16
Cost is dependent on placement location.
Renewable each year the student is on the course.
Cost: £100
University Quality Assurance
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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.