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What’s next?

This article discusses what's next? - both in the next week of the course and after the course.
The University of Strathclyde
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Graham McPheat, your lead educator, is Course Leader on the MSc in Child and Youth Care Studies by Distance Learning. If you’re a fully participating learner in Caring for Vulnerable Children, you’ll be eligible for a 10% discount on the MSc fees. If you would like further details about this particular programme you can register your interest here.

This course is brought to you by the University of Strathclyde, which offers a range of taught Masters and research degrees, individual modules and short courses. We’ll also be holding a Google Hangout if you want to find out more information about the course – you’ll find out more about this next week.

Next week we will be looking at child development and the concepts of attachment and containment. We will be thinking about how children and young people grow and develop, the different factors and circumstances that influence this process for them, and we introduce theories that may be used to measure and assess the growth.

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