Masters in Counselling Children and Young People (MA)

1 year full-time, 2-4 years part-time

 

Important announcement:

Prospective applicants for the MA Counselling Children and Young People (applied route) 2012-13 who ultimately intend to aim for UK counsellor accreditation are advised to contact the course leader by e-mail (gary.winship@nottingham.ac.uk) for an update with regard to the implications of the recent announcement made by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) regarding procedures and routes for future accreditation.

This is a unique course in the field focussing on the complex new challenges faced by today's practitioners working in a range of settings with children and young people. The challenges for early intervention today are informed by new modes of family reconstruction, high levels of depression, suicide and self-harm, eating and addictive disorders among children and young people. The course positions the talking therapies as a primary task of early intervention in terms of prevention and health education as well as response.

The course's orientation is humanistic. The personal development of the counsellor is central to the training and students learn to develop a capacity for self-reflection through journalling, reflective practice, personal therapy, supervised practice, video and refined multi-sensory activities. Training days afford the opportunity to experience and critique different counselling modalities.

The Programme

• Full-time - one year
• Part-time - two to four years
• PG Diploma and Certificate exit points  
• Practice route or Applied route options

Entry requirements

• a degree OR an approved professional qualification equivalent to a first degree (e.g. MA Social Work or Diploma in Youth and Community Work)
• Counsellor training at level 4
• 2 years experience of supervised counselling practice in accordance with BACP accreditation requirements
• other non-accredited training eg Childline, Place2Be  

Applicants whose first language is not English must, as a minimum, fulfill one of the following conditions:

• IELTS 6.5 (no less than 6.0 in any element)
• TOEFL 87 (no less than 21 in listening and writing, 22 in reading and 23 in speaking)

 

 

 

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