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Study Details: MSc 1 year full-time
This course combines theoretical grounding in development and its disorders with practical training in clinical assessment, diagnosis, and treatment. You will focus on dyslexia, developmental language disorder, autism, ADHD, and dyscalculia.
Combining perspectives from developmental and cognitive psychology, developmental and educational neuroscience, and applied clinical and educational practice, you'll look at topical issues such as co-morbidity between disorders, and the implications of cognitive disorders for children’s mental health.
2:2 or equivalent in Psychology or a reevant discipline such as Education, Linguistics or Speech and Language Therapy. We will be looking for evidence of strong marks in relevant modules including: developmental psychology, modules relating to mental health, and research methods and statistics.
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This MSc will enhance your transferable skills as well as the skills required for careers in a range of industries. For example, you’ll learn a variety of research and clinical methods that can be applied to childhood development and its disorders; as well as carrying out extensive independent research. Many of our graduates go on to complete PhDs, typically in psychology. Others go on to pursue careers in clinical psychology, educational psychology, or find work as children’s wellbeing practitioners, assistant psychologists and research assistants.
The Department’s Employability Coordinator works closely with the University Careers Service, which offers our students an additional range of career and recruitment events, skills sessions and one-to-one advice.
For information about professional pathways in psychology see the BPS website.
For module information for this course please visit - https://www.york.ac.uk/study/postgraduate-taught/courses/development-disorders-and-clinical-practice-msc/#course-content
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