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- Pursue your interest in psychology and enhance your professional practice and career options
- Work with individuals, families and communities to optimise learning and development across the entire lifespan
- Learn to conceptualise, assess and treat diverse presentations through a range of perspectives including cognitive-behavioural, attachment-focused, and multisystemic approaches
- Gain practical experience in QUT's Psychology and Counselling Clinic and external placements in community, health, or educational settings
- Graduates are eligible to apply for general registration as a psychologist in Australia.
Highlights
- Pursue your interest in psychology and enhance your professional practice and career options
- Work with individuals, families and communities to optimise learning and development across the entire lifespan
- Learn to conceptualise, assess and treat diverse presentations through a range of perspectives including cognitive-behavioural, attachment-focused, and multisystemic approaches
- Gain practical experience in QUT's Psychology and Counselling Clinic and external placements in community, health, or educational settings
- Graduates are eligible to apply for general registration as a psychologist in Australia.
Why choose this course?
Educational and developmental psychology is a diverse and rewarding field that applies psychological science to understand how people adapt to their circumstances within the context of their relationships and the broader systems around them.
Work in this field includes supporting individuals with assessment and therapy, and also includes supporting change at broader levels, such as promoting secure attachment relationships, creating and implementing group or whole-school intervention and prevention programs, and contributing to broader societal needs through advocacy, psychoeducation, and promoting psychological research.
Our graduates work as psychologists in diverse settings including, but not limited to, private practice, early intervention, infant and perinatal mental health, psychiatric settings, primary and secondary schools, disability services, hospital services, community outreach, higher education, child protection, corrections, child and youth mental health, and neurodevelopmental research.
Explore this course
QUT’s course sits at the cutting edge of Australian psychological practice with its focus on attachment, trauma, neurodiversity, and cultural responsiveness and a strong emphasis on contextualising individual differences.
At QUT you’ll learn to take a holistic developmental approach, preparing you to work with individuals, families, and communities to promote wellbeing and resilience. Using preventative, strengths-based strategies you will be equipped to facilitate programs and interventions that lead to optimal learning and development across the entire lifespan, from infancy to older adulthood.
The Master of Psychology (Educational and Developmental) prepares graduates with essential knowledge, practical skills, values, and ethical and cultural sensitivity for practice in a range of contemporary settings. This practice-oriented program offers an innovative and stimulating program of coursework and a variety of experiences through practical placements.
Before you go out on professional placement you will have the opportunity to gain experience working with clients in the QUT Psychology and Counselling Clinic. You will be supported to step into the workplace and build your professional capabilities and networks through Work Integrated Learning. Placement opportunities exist across a wide variety of settings, allowing you to gain a diversity of practice and training.
Work Integrated Learning
During this course you will be required to complete a minimum of 1000 hours of work placements.
Careers and outcomes
This course provides the academic foundation for a career in educational and developmental psychology. Educational and developmental psychologists are employed in a wide range of settings and are also able to work as independent (private) practitioners. Educational and developmental psychology may also provide a springboard for other careers, subject to additional or complementary training.
Please note that while successful course completion leads directly to general registration as a psychologist, endorsement as an educational and developmental psychologist requires an additional period of approved supervised practice. Please see the Psychology Board of Australia for further information.
Professional recognition
This program meets requirements for full registration as a psychologist in Australia plus membership of the Australian Psychological Society and associate membership of the College of Educational and Developmental Psychologists.
Possible careers
- Counsellor
- Developmental psychologist
- Health researcher
- Policy adviser
- Psychologist
- School counsellor
- School psychologist
This course is offered by the Faculty of Health.
The coursework component provides training in assessment, diagnosis and intervention in the area of educational and developmental issues across the lifespan, with an emphasis on the school years. Students undertake two internships that are linked with a client base from the Catholic education system and from the Psychology and Counselling Clinic at QUT's Kelvin Grove campus. Following these internships, students undertake a further two external placements in other environments including schools, mental health and community settings.
To undertake the supervised practice, students need to provide evidence of provisional registration as a psychologist with the Psychology Board of Australia and hold a current blue card as required by the Commission for Children and Young People and Guardian Act (2000).
This course is offered by the Faculty of Health.
The coursework component provides training in assessment, diagnosis and intervention in the area of educational and developmental issues across the lifespan, with an emphasis on the school years. Students undertake two internships that are linked with a client base from the Catholic education system and from the Psychology and Counselling Clinic at QUT's Kelvin Grove campus. Following these internships, students undertake a further two external placements in other environments including schools, mental health and community settings.
To undertake the supervised practice, students need to provide evidence of provisional registration as a psychologist with the Psychology Board of Australia and hold a current blue card as required by the Commission for Children and Young People and Guardian Act (2000).
Your actual fees may vary depending on which units you choose. We review fees annually, and they may be subject to increases.
2025 fees
2025: CSP $4,700 per year full-time (96 credit points)
There are requirements that you will need to meet as a student in this course. You will need to identify these requirements and ensure you allow sufficient time to meet them. Some of these requirements have associated costs.
2025 fees
2025: $36,000 per year full-time (96 credit points)
There are requirements that you will need to meet as a student in this course. You will need to identify these requirements and ensure you allow sufficient time to meet them. Some of these requirements have associated costs.
2024 fees
2024: CSP $4,500 per year full-time (96 credit points)
There are requirements that you will need to meet as a student in this course. You will need to identify these requirements and ensure you allow sufficient time to meet them. Some of these requirements have associated costs.
2024 fees
2024: $33,300 per year full-time (96 credit points)
There are requirements that you will need to meet as a student in this course. You will need to identify these requirements and ensure you allow sufficient time to meet them. Some of these requirements have associated costs.
Student services and amenities fees
You may need to pay student services and amenities (SA) fees as part of your course costs.
HECS-HELP: loans to help you pay for your course fees
You may not have to pay anything upfront if you're eligible for a HECS-HELP loan.
You can apply for scholarships to help you with study and living costs.
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