King's College London

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Postgraduate degree

Overview

Please note next start date is January 2026

This programme is designed to develop and retain Child Wellbeing Practitioners and Education Mental Health Practitioners within the services they have trained and worked in.

The programme aims to train practitioners to develop supervision skills and to enhance and broaden their skills in delivering low intensity interventions for CYP and their families (with a wider range of MH conditions and severity) in their specially designed community and school settings.

Key benefits

Understand the aims, objective, and structure of the CYP-PT low intensity training programmes (CWP/EMHP).
Develop critical knowledge of the theoretical, research and implementation literature that underpins the supervision of trainees on the training programmes.
Understand the importance of supervision as a key clinical activity within the programmes.
Be aware of key models of supervision.
Describe the supervision competencies outlined by Roth and Pilling (2007)
Understand the theory and practice of disseminating the model of supervision using the fundamental principles of evidence-based practice.
Increasing service user participation; Increasing accessibility of services; Increasing awareness of MH problems in CYP; and Accountability in practice using routine outcome measures.
Develop knowledge of evidence-based interventions to work with a broader range of more complex and disorder specific models with common mild-moderate mental health problems in CYP.
Develop knowledge of best practice to support families and the wider systems (schools and community) to support CYP with common mild-moderate mental health difficulties.
Develop knowledge of Autism Spectrum Conditions, ADHD, and Learning Disabilities.
Develop knowledge of different diagnosis and common co-morbidity/co-occurring conditions with ASC/ADHD/LD.
Acquire knowledge of relevant legislation and context.
Acquire knowledge of social models of disability and practice.
Develop knowledge of routine adaptations to low intensity clinical practice for neurodivergence that are supported by growing evidence base.

Key Information

Course type:

Diploma

Delivery mode:

In person

Study mode:

Part time

Duration:

Two years

Credit value:

120 credits

Application status:

Open

Start date:

January 2026

Taught in

Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience

Administrative bodies

Regulating body

Application closing date guidance

The applications portal is open for the January 2026 intake from August 1^st – 25^th November 2025.

The course will start on 19th January 2026.

Base campus

Students outside the main building at Denmark Hill

Denmark Hill Campus

Denmark Hill, in Southwark, London, is a vibrant area known for its historical landmarks and green spaces. Home to King's College and the Maudsley Hospitals, it also features Ruskin Park, named after John Ruskin, and the Camberwell College of Arts.