Master of Science in Clinical Child, Family and Education Studies
Utrecht University
Key Information
Campus location
Utrecht, Netherlands
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
1 year
Pace
Full time
Tuition fees
EUR 2,209 / per year *
Application deadline
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* EU/EEA, Surinam or Swiss students; €17,500: International students
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Introduction
Are you interested in raising children? In the way, their environment shapes their development? Would you like to learn how to support parents and educators, creating a context where children and youth can reach their full potential? Then this Master's program may be just right for you!
Program Outcome
This Master’s program in Clinical Child, Family, and Education Studies (Dutch: Orthopedagogiek) will challenge you to make connections between scientific research and practical issues. Armed with scientific insights and clinical skills, you will be able to give advice, support, treatment, and guidance when problems arise around children or adolescents in families or schools. You can make an important contribution to the research of practical care issues related to parenting, education, or children at risk. You will help children, youth, their parents, and the systems surrounding them to function to their optimum potential.
Curriculum
Working in a multi-disciplinary way
While studying complex situations you will combine insights from education and child and adolescent studies, psychology, neuropsychology, child and youth psychiatry, forensic psychology, juvenile justice, pediatrics, and sociology.
Clinical issues in raising children and youth: a sound basis
The program is taught in English. You will take three mandatory courses concerning:
- Working as a clinical professional in different contexts;
- Critical Analysis of Parenting, Educational and Care issues: an ecological system approach
- Functioning as an academic professional.
On top of these courses, every student will do an internship, write a Master’s Thesis and you will choose an elective course.
Research feeds education
Your lecturers participate in highly qualified research in the field of parenting, adolescence, education, development, and learning in the research programs Child and Adolescent Studies and Education and Learning. This means you will benefit from their most recent scientific insights. Moreover, as a Master’s student, your thesis can contribute to the current research within the program concerning projects such as:
- Study of Attention capacities of moderately Preterm born infants (STAP)
- The YOUth cohort study: social competence and behavioral control
- Young children in childcare
- Multilingual Language Development
- Evaluation of the Rock and Water support program
- Evaluating therapy for depressed adolescents
- Projects from the Consortium on Individual Development (CID)
- Research on Adolescent Development And Relationships (RADAR)
Career Opportunities
The Master’s program in Clinical Child, Family, and Education Studies prepares you for work in a variety of sectors such as child welfare institutions, advisory and support services for schools, social education centers, medical toddler daycare, boarding institutions, consulting practices, pediatric and child psychiatric clinics and hospitals, national knowledge institutes, Centre for Youth and Family, Municipal Health Service.
After graduation, you can also qualify for a post at a university as a lecturer and/or scientific researcher. Incidentally in this last case, following a two-year research-oriented master’s program (such as Educational Sciences: Learning in Interaction or Development and Socialisation in Childhood and Adolescence) is the most appropriate prior education.
Continuing your studies
If you follow Track 1 ‘Care for Children, Youth and Parents’ and have successfully completed three client reports (case reports) during your internship according to the prescribed format of the NVO, you will receive a declaration with which you can apply for the Basic Registration in Diagnostics from the NVO. You (only) need this extra registration if you wish to complete the postgraduate Health Psychologist program (in Dutch). This supplementary registration is not required to attend other follow-up programs.