Program Overview

Introduction to the School of Health in Social Science

The School of Health in Social Science offers a range of programs for students interested in pursuing a career in health and social science. The school provides a comprehensive education in various fields, including clinical and health psychology, counseling, psychotherapy, and applied social sciences.

Undergraduate Programs

• BN (Hons) Nursing
• MA (Hons) Health in Social Science

Postgraduate Taught Programs

• Doctorate in Clinical Psychology
  • Why choose the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology?
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  • How to apply
  • Doctorate in Clinical Psychology privacy statement
  • Anti-racism, Diversity and Inclusion
  • Advisory Panel of Experts by Experience
• Doctorate in Psychotherapy and Counselling
• Master of Counselling
• Master of Counselling (Interpersonal Dialogue)
• Master of Nursing with Pre-Registration (Adult)
• MSc Advanced Nursing
• MSc Applied Psychology for Children and Young People
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• MSc Counselling Studies
• MSc International Counselling and Cross-Cultural Counselling
• MSc Mental Health in Children and Young People: Psychological Approaches
• MSc Mental Health in Children and Young People: Psychological Approaches (Online)
• MSc Psychology of Mental Health (Conversion)
• MSc Psychological Therapies
• MSc Psychological Therapies (Part Time)
• MSc Planetary Health
• Postgraduate Certificate in Counselling Studies
• Postgraduate Certificate in Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) (Online)
• Postgraduate Diploma in Counselling

Postgraduate Research Programs

• MScR Clinical and Health Psychology
• MScR Counselling Studies
• MScR Nursing Studies
• PhD Clinical and Health Psychology
• PhD Counselling Studies
• PhD Health in Social Science
• PhD Nursing Studies

Continuous Professional Development Programs

• Understanding Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD): Context, Contributors & Clinical Presentation
• Advanced Practice in Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) (Online)
  • Entry Requirements (FASD)
• The Assessment and Diagnosis of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) (Online) (CLPS11096)
  • Entry Requirements (FASD)
• Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) - Level A
• IPT Level B
• Homelessness and Inclusion Health (On Campus)
• Homeless and Inclusion Health (Online)

Scholarships and Funding Opportunities

• The Burdett Fellows Studentship
• Edinburgh Doctoral College Scholarships
• College Research Student Awards
• Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Studentships

Research Areas

• Edinburgh Centre for Research on the Experience of Dementia
• The Scottish Collaboration for Public Health Research and Policy
• Child and Adolescent Mental Health Research Centre
• Centre for Creative-Relational Inquiry
• Centre for Homelessness and Inclusion Health
• A Public Inconvenience
• ADVANCE-D: Advancing theory and treatment approaches for men convicted of intimate partner violence who misuse substances
• Art is Everywhere
• Bringing Out Leaders in Dementia (bold)
• Care-Experience Research Edinburgh Hub (CAREHub)
• Causes, characteristics and potential solutions to homelessness in rural Perth and Kinross: a mixed methods research study
• Children, Adolescents and Animals Research Group (caar)
• Contemporary Couples: A Psychoanalytic and Sociological Approach
• Contextual Mental Health Research Group
• Counselling People with Dementia
• Crowdsourcing for adolescent health
• Dance for Dementia
• Dementia Workforce Excellence in Acute Care
• Developing and evaluating Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) interventions
• Developing and evaluating interventions for eating disorders
• Developing and evaluating Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) interventions
• DigniSpace: Now and Beyond
• Drivingly
• Drugs Research Network for Scotland
• Early Intervention for Eating Disorders
• Eating and neurodiversity
• Eating Disorders and Behaviours Research Group
• Eating disorders, public health and social inequalities
• Everyday life experiences of Young People (EPIC-A and Day2Day)
• Fetal Alcohol Advisory Support and Training Team (FAASTT)
• Harnessing data to model trends in obesity in the UK
• 'He kept me safe': a performance on intimate partner violence
• Home intervention for patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
• Homelessness and pregnancy
• Illegal Puppy Trade and Puppy Health and Welfare
• iMinds: supporting young people who have experienced online sexual abuse
• Implementing Mobile MEntal health Recording Strategy for Europe (IMMERSE)
• INCLUDED: Exploring Ways to Include People with Advanced Dementia as Co-Researchers Through the Arts
• Intergenerational Mental Health
• Investigating excessive rationalisation in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
• Investigating Meaning-making and the cocreation of Guidelines for Evaluation IN participatory Arts for Dementia (IMAGINED)
• Jobs First Evaluation
• Mental health & wellbeing in Advanced Illness Network (MAIN)
• My Grief My Way (MGMW)
• Nature Connection Research Group
• Neurodivergent and Learning Disabilities Research Group (NALD)
• Nigeria-Scotland Arts Exchange
• Nurses' and midwives' Experiences of Accessing Research evidence for practice in Ghana (NEAR & REACH Ghana)
• Paws on Campus
• Pets and changing homes: the views of care experienced children/young people
• Pharmacy Homeless Outreach Engagement Non medical Independent prescribing (PHOENIx) for Severe and Multiple Disadvantage
• Pilot Study: Pharmacy Homeless Outreach Engagement Non medical Independent prescribing (PHOENIx)
• Promoting a duty of care to animals among children and adolescents
• Public Health, Arts, Theory, Sociology (PATHS) Research Group
• Public Health, Humanities and Magical Realism
• Researching Evidence-based Alternatives in Living, Imaginative, Traumatised, Integrated, Embodied Systems in Health Disparities (REALITIES)
• Road to Recovery
• Scottish Student Mental Health Research Network (ScotSMART)
• Showing the Way
• SIGMA UK: Pilot study investigating mental health and wellbeing in adolescents
• Social media, body image, and eating
• Stories of Empowerment
• Suicide Cultures: Reimagining Suicide Research
• Suicide in/as Politics
• Supporting Mental Health in Young People: Integrated Methodology for cLinical dEcisions and evidence-based interventions (SMILE)
• Supporting People and Pets in the UK
• The 'New Dementia': Widening Choices for People with Dementia
• Thistledown Project
• Trauma-informed approaches in policing
• Violence Against Women and Homelessness
• YARNS Transitions (Young Adults Rehabilitation experiences and Needs following Stroke)

Advanced Practice in Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) (Online)

Course Description

This course will support professionally registered health, education, and social care professionals to develop their advanced level practice in service provision, including assessment, diagnosis, and post-diagnosis support for individuals with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD).

Course Details

• Course dates: Semester 1
• Course credits: 20
• Course delivery: Online
• Academic co-ordinator: Dr. Suzanne O'Rourke

Intended Learning Outcomes

On completing the course, students will have been provided with training to help them:

• Evaluate the suitability of current service structures in enabling access to assessment, formulations, and diagnoses of FASD
• Describe the role that additional pre- and post-natal exposures have on the conceptualization of a diagnosis of FASD
• Undertake a process of complex assessment and differential diagnosis
• Communicate a diagnosis of FASD in a sensitive manner

Course Delivery and Assessment

This course will run in Semester 1 and is delivered flexibly online over 10 weeks. Assessment will be 100% coursework in the form of two essays.

Entry Requirements

Students must have successfully completed The Assessment & Diagnosis of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) or have evidence of other training and experience in FASD assessment and diagnosis.

Course Fees

• Students who take this course as CPD 'with academic credit' will incur a fee of £2,125.
• Students who take this course as CPD 'without academic credit' will incur a fee of £945.