Last modified: 04 Aug 2025 16:46
This course examines the links between mental health and education, and the contemporary theoretical and practice approaches to maintaining well-being for students. Covering policy, pedagogical practice, and mental health interventions both locally and globally this module aims to provide critical insight into how educational context can provide a foundation for lifelong mental health.
| Study Type | Undergraduate | Level | 3 |
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| Term | First Term | Credit Points | 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits) |
| Campus | Aberdeen | Sustained Study | No |
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Modern education is increasingly seen through the lens of student well-being, being the venue for the provision of interventions and having the potential for it to be the venue for the development of social and emotional skills which ensure ongoing mental health. In this module students will be introduced to theories which conceptualise the role of education as a social, pedagogical mental health practice. Alongside this, students will examine initiatives and activities occurring within contemporary education which are aimed at mental health and wellbeing, including mindfulness in schools, schools counselling, and Social and Emotional Learning (SEL).
Students will undertake critical discussion to navigate the social, political, and practice barriers to deploying mental health activities within systems across primary, secondary and tertiary education.
Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 100 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 20 | Feedback Weeks | 24 | |
| Feedback |
2,000-word project proposing an intervention to be used in education (pre-school, primary, secondary, or tertiary), evidencing the links between the philosophical/pedagogical approach, the activities required and intended outcomes. The potential barriers and facilitators to the activity (YP, parents, teachers, ethics etc)
Feedback will be both informal formative during project creation and summative three weeks following submission. |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Conceptual | Analyse | Conceptualise the socio-political context of the deployment of mental health approaches in education. |
| Conceptual | Understand | Conceptualise the range of contemporary approaches to mental health in school, and how they are deployed within educational systems. |
| Procedural | Create | Apply mental health related activities and actions which are relevant to educational contexts. |
| Reflection | Analyse | Understand ‘self-in'context’ within the educational system and how this impacts both negatively and positively on mental health. |
There are no assessments for this course.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 100 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 50 | Feedback Weeks | 2 | |
| Feedback |
2,000-word project proposing an intervention to be used in education (pre-school, primary, secondary, or tertiary), evidencing the links between the philosophical/pedagogical approach, the activities required and intended outcomes. The potential barriers and facilitators to the activity (YP, parents, teachers, ethics etc)
Feedback will be both informal formative during project creation and summative three weeks following submission. |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Conceptual | Understand | Conceptualise the range of contemporary approaches to mental health in school, and how they are deployed within educational systems. |
| Conceptual | Analyse | Conceptualise the socio-political context of the deployment of mental health approaches in education. |
| Reflection | Analyse | Understand ‘self-in'context’ within the educational system and how this impacts both negatively and positively on mental health. |
| Procedural | Create | Apply mental health related activities and actions which are relevant to educational contexts. |
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