Credit bearing module Psychosocial Care of Children, Adolescents and their Families
Explore psychosocial care of children, adolescents and their families and develop knowledge to inform your understanding and professional practice.
Key facts
- Duration
- Part time: One semester
- Level
- Continuing professional development (CPD)
- Academic level
- 7
- Academic credits
- 20
- School
- Oxford School of Nursing and Midwifery
- Application deadline
- 1 September (for a September start)
- 1 December (for a January start).
About this course
This Psychosocial Care of Children, Adolescents and their Families module opens with a focus on developing psychosocial assessment skills from a sound theoretical basis. It then moves on to explore how using your assessment of family strengths and difficulties can inform planned interventions. A range of therapeutic approaches are introduced and you are encouraged to reflect on their use within your specific practice environment.
This module will develop your understanding of the psychosocial needs that are expressed through a child’s behaviour and emotions, and your ability to identify and implement ways of managing them.
Entry requirements
Entry requirements
You must be working as a practitioner in a health or social care setting with babies, children or adolescents with access to families.
Fees and funding
Fees
| Fee types | 2026/27 |
|---|---|
| Home distance learning | £1,000 per single module, where taken as part of an award-bearing course the module fee is £1,260 |
How and when to pay
Tuition fee instalments for the semester are due by the Monday of week 1 of each semester. Students are not liable for full fees for that semester if they leave before week 4. If the leaving date is after week 4, full fees for the semester are payable.
- For information on payment methods please see our Make a Payment page.
- For information about refunds please visit our Refund policy page.
Questions about fees?
Learning and assessment
This module encompasses practice in the work setting alongside a blended teaching approach will be taken for this module, delivered in units of e-learning, and seminars (a combination of synchronous or asynchronous), and experiential learning groups (ELG).
You will take turns to bring a case to the ELG. You will reflect on your work with a particular family. With guidance from the facilitator, the group will help you to make sense of your experience and of the family’s difficulties by applying the knowledge gained on the module. This builds the graduate attributes of academic literacy and critical self-awareness and personal literacy, also helping you to appreciate the relationship of these attributes to one another.
Assessed by 100% coursework.
Outline syllabus:
- psychosocial development across the lifespan, including cultural and historical context
- understanding family dynamics and generational roles: applying structural interventions.
- attachment in infancy, childhood and adulthood including trans-generational patterns
- assessment and Interventions from a psychodynamic perspective including containment
- understanding child and adolescent problems and disorders in the context of the family
- behavioural assessment and intervention including positive parenting and managing challenging behaviour
- cognitive behavioural approaches and application to anxiety disorders in children and adolescents
- interventions when working with parents. Identifying and overcoming challenges.
Assessment
Coursework: Case study
The aim of this case study is:
- to use theoretical understanding of psychosocial development and of family systems to assess the problems of a child within their family context
- to identify appropriate interventions, giving the rationale for these.
How to apply
Apply through our Moodle Portal.
If you wish to take this as a standalone module then you can apply to be a postgraduate associate student using our online application portal. You will need to register for the portal prior to proceeding with an application.
Our courses are reviewed regularly as part of our quality assurance framework, so module availability and course structures may vary from what is listed here. On rare occasions, we may also need to make updates to our course programmes after publication; for full details, please visit our changes to programmes page (opens in a new tab)