Module Code - Title:
AE6001
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CHILD AND ADOLESCENT CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY
Year Last Offered:
2026/7
Hours Per Week:
Grading Type:
N
Prerequisite Modules:
Rationale and Purpose of the Module:
To provide students with the necessary competencies theoretical frameworks and practice applications to work in the area of child and adolescent psychology as clinical psychologists.
Syllabus:
This module will include coursework in the following areas:
Topics in child and adolescent clinical psychology
Practice in child and adolescent clinical psychology
Psychometrics and psychological testing with children and adolescents
Community psychology and child protection
Working with families
Learning Outcomes:
Cognitive (Knowledge, Understanding, Application, Analysis, Evaluation, Synthesis)
Courses will draw on relevant literature and research methods to inform the students on the relevant knowledge base related to child development. Identified psychological problems experienced by children and adolescents will be studied and applied using the principles of problem based learning. Using theoretical frameworks and practical applications students will be exposed to the rigors of assessment, diagnosis, classification, epidemiology, formulation and treatment, prevention and professional issues.
Affective (Attitudes and Values)
The principles underlying the programme reflect the local clinical scientist model that is the latest evolution of the scientist รป practitioner model that has been the standard training model in clinical psychology for the past 50 years. The central tene
Psychomotor (Physical Skills)
The clinical placement forms a core part of the education and training of the student. It offers the opportunity for the student to engage in developmentally appropriate work whereby emerging abilities are examined in relation to prior learning and futur
How the Module will be Taught and what will be the Learning Experiences of the Students:
A model of adult learning will be adopted that reflects:
self-direction as a motivation to learn,
the use of previous experience to inform current learning,
current learning as a developmental task in a lifelong process of professional development,
the importance of applying current learning to a work setting.
Prime Texts:
Carr, A, (2006)
Handbook of Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychology: A Contextual Approach
, Routledge
Other Relevant Texts:
Rutter, M.,Taylor, E. and Hersov, L. (1994)
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Modern Approaches
, Oxford: Blackwell
Programme(s) in which this Module is Offered:
DOCTOR OF CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY
Semester(s) Module is Offered:
Module Leader:
ruth.melia@ul.ie