for employment with the children's workforce. The programme is highly selective and takes a maximum of 12 students per year, so students with relevant experience prior to application will be at an advantage.
For more information see our Applications page. Together with essential academic requirements, the personal statement is your opportunity to illustrate whether your reasons for applying to this programme match what the programme will deliver. Please note: you are required to provide details of 2 referees on your application, at least one of whom should be academic. We require your references to be completed on or very soon after the application deadline so please bear this in mind when you apply.
Interviews will be held in March Interviews are held in person for those in the UK and via telephone for applicants who are overseas. It is awarded based on academic ability and potential as well as on financial need.
Please note, students are only eligible to apply once they have been issued with a firm offer from UCL for this course. For information on entry scholarships and other sources of funding for Graduate students please go to the UCL Scholarships page. We are delighted to be a partner in offering placement experience to students on the course.
Graduates from the course have already successfully gone on to gain places on doctoral-level clinical trainings, including Clinical Psychology, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy and Counselling Psychology. Others have got jobs as research assistants or as primary mental health workers specialising in work with children and families.
Completing this MSc does not result in an accredited clinical qualification as a child therapist or clinical psychologist. However it will help you develop several core clinical competencies and provide direct supervised experience of work in a child and adolescent mental health service, placing you in a very strong position to work in children's services or to proceed to a doctoral-level clinical training.
The course also puts graduates in a strong position to go on to PhD studies in the field of child and adolescent mental health and health service related research. What kind of academic background do you look for in successful candidates? Successful applicants would have a background in Psychology, or a related field. They would have an undergraduate final grade of at least a or equivalent. Some experience of working with children or in research would be an advantage as well.
Graduates from the course have successfully gone on to gain places on doctoral-level clinical trainings, such as Child Psychotherapy, Counselling or Clinical Psychology; and to find work as primary mental health workers specialising in work with children and families. The course will also put graduates in a strong position to go on to PhD research studies in the field of child and adolescent mental health. This MSc does not lead to professional accreditation as a specialist child and adolescent mental health practitioner; however, the course is specifically designed to help students gain the key clinical skills, knowledge and experience that will help them to progress to doctoral-level training, if they wish to do so.
It is anticipated that completing this MSc, with its range of theoretical and practical components, will put students in a strong position to apply for a range of doctoral-level clinical trainings, or to work directly within children's services. You can find information on converting grades on the International Students website , under information by country.
To apply for funding it is necessary to have filled in an application form for admission as a Graduate student before completing a scholarship application form. Please note that the deadlines for scholarship applications are strongly adhered to and no application will be accepted after the deadline date indicated. Applicants do not need to take the GRE. This is not required as part of the selection process. Are second language English students required to prove their English proficiency? All students wh