Social work and education with a focus on Psychosocial Counselling

full time

Master of Arts

Master
Degree

3 semesters

Standard period of study (amount)

Düsseldorf

Location

Overview and admission

Study Type

graduate

Admission semester

Winter Semester only

Area of study

  • Children's Education
  • Pedagogy, Educational Science
  • Psychology
  • Social Work
  • Social Pedagogy
  • Guidance

Focus

Inter-Disciplinary Principles of Counselling, Psychosocial and Clinical Diagnostics, Counselling methods and strategies, Counselling practice research, Self-reflection and self-awareness, Legal Application Areas, Personality Development and Ethics, Supervised counselling practice, Practice Research and Quality Management, Psychosocial counselling

Annotation

The degree course meets the academic requirements for further qualification in child and adolescent psychotherapy (note the current opportunities for this qualification!) and enables you to take up doctoral studies. It does not replace specialist or approach-specific counselling training!

Admission modus

Local admission restriction

Admission requirements (Link)

Admission requirements

Study requirements for admission to this degree course are: -\tA successful Bachelor's degree or a comparable university degree in a field of Social Work (e.g. Social Pedagogy, Social Work), Childhood Education or another human, educational or social science degree course with at least an average grade of 2.5 and 210 ETCS points ( Prospective students with 180 ECTS can also be admitted subject to conditions). -\trelevant practical experience of around 640 working hours, -\trelevant examinations totalling 15 ETCS points, and a minimum grade of 2.5 from one of the modules listed below: Specialisation Counselling, Specialisation Development Funding, Specialisation Health, -\tKnowledge of methods of empirical social research in the amount of 5 ECTS. Detailed information on the access requirements can be found at .

Lecture period

Application deadlines

Winter semester (2025/2026)
  • Deadlines for International Students from the European Union

    For more details, please see www.hs-duesseldorf.de/bewerbung_international (GERMAN) and www.hs-duesseldorf.de/application (ENGLISH).

  • Deadlines for international students from countries that are not members of the European Union

    For more details, please see www.hs-duesseldorf.de/bewerbung_international (GERMAN) and www.hs-duesseldorf.de/application (ENGLISH).

  • Application deadline for Germans and inhabitants

    https://hs-duesseldorf.de/bewerbungsablauf

  • Enrollment deadline for Germans and foreign students

    https://hs-duesseldorf.de/bewerbungsablauf

Languages of instruction

Main language

German