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Postgrad Options - Childhood Behavioural Psychology

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  • 01-03-2010 11:01pm
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    Trotter
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    Hi all,

    I'm 6 years into teaching as a career and am starting to think about a masters or PhD down the road at some point.

    I'm interested in the area of childhood behavioural psychology or educational psychology, so as ultimately to be able to provide intervention and help of some sort for children who experience behavioural difficulties, and for their parents/families.

    I have a BSc in an unrelated field, and a HDip in Primary teaching, but I suspect that to go down this route, I might need to start another degree in psychology from scratch.

    Has anyone any advice in terms of a path to suitable courses or options? Unfortunately it'll be a couple of years at least before I can even think of applying somewhere as I couldnt afford to do a masters or PhD right now.

    Thanks for your help!


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    #2
    The Black Oil
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    The H Dip in Psychology would bring you up to having a BA in Psych. UCD, TCD, UCC and NUIG have their versions of it and I think the OU have something similar, also.

    Just make sure the course you're interested in is accredited by the PSI. After the Dip you could specialise, but it's fairly competitive to get into some of the main areas/training programmes. There are Masters in ABA and things like that so they're always an option if you don't fancy Ed Psych itself. I don't know how many interventions you could generalise/apply from after doing something like ABA, though, so to have more transferable skills you might need to consider Ed Psych or something else.

    See if you can talk to someone in the field as they'll be more up-to-date with what's worth looking at.

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    The Black Oil
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    Oh, and check out the Psychology forum. We don't bite!

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    claire h
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    Have you looked into masters in education including areas like aggression studies or guidance counselling? They might be a quicker way to top up your skills, plus education postgrad courses are often designed to be taken part-time as it's assumed you're working in a relevant environment rather than studying full-time.


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