With a view to ensuring new students adapt to the programme and appropriate skill development, the recommended entry profile is limited to graduates (or equivalent) in education and social degrees with close ties to the programme content, such as social education, social work, pedagogy, psychology, and primary and early childhood education.

Admission Requirements

Students interested in applying for a place on the master's programme need to submit their pre-registration application within the deadline for each academic year, as set by the UIB Centre for Postgraduate Studies (CEP).

The CEP will analyse and verify that applicants meet the admission requirements, i.e. their degree(s) grant them access to official master’s programmes in accordance with current regulations, and notify the applicants about its decision.

Admission Criteria

Once an applicant’s right to admission for the requested course is verified, the CEP shall pass on their application to the Master's Academic Commission for assessment and decision on admission. The CEP will then send applicants a notification of their admission with the dates for students to formally enrol on the programme.

In order to issue the master’s admission decision, the Academic Commission will take into account the following admission criteria in line with the corresponding weightings:

1. 1Average mark from the undergraduate degree programme stated in the recommended entry profile granting admission to the master’s degree. It shall be worth 80% of the admission score
2. Accredited training from universities or official institutions regarding early childhood, adolescence and families will be considered. It shall be worth 10% of the admission score.
3. Accredited professional experience in services and programmes for early childhood, adolescence and families will be considered. It shall be worth 5% of the admission score.
4. Accredited publications and research on early childhood, adolescence and families will be considered. It shall be worth 5% of the admission score.

The Academic Commission will decide on applications to the master’s programme. The commission will comprise the master’s academic coordination team.

Where the number of applicants exceeds the number of available places, the Academic Commission will establish a list of alternates by order of merit, with a view to covering any possible withdrawal by any of the initially selected candidates.

The main aim of the master’s programme is to provide systematic training on all structural and dynamic elements regarding families from different social sciences and education, as well as social and educational intervention strategies for children and families. In this sense, students will be able to take later PhD studies in the field with a sound interdisciplinary basis, respond to scientific demands and intervention techniques in the field from institutions and services in the sector, and be ready to undertake a professional career in the field.

Specific Objectives

1. Enable knowledge acquisition in the necessary areas to perform family interventions. Provide training to diagnose family situations and relationships across different life stages.
2. Train students in professional intervention practice. Provide training to design, develop and assess different intervention strategies.
3. Provide training to perform research by future family intervention professionals. Provide the foundations in core and applied research into different co-habitation scenarios, their features, changes and underlying factors.
4. Steer students on how to access professional development in family intervention in the public and private sector. Open up new professional perspectives in the field of family guidance.
5. Raise awareness amongst students so that in their professional practice they respect fundamental and equality rights, as well as the principles of universal equality, opportunity and accessibility for people with disabilities, and the values inherent to a culture of peace and democracy.

Skills

In accordance with the factsheets included in the Spanish Qualifications Framework for Higher Education (MECES), the training on the Master’s Degree in Socio-educational Intervention for Children, Adolescents and Families shall ensure that students acquired the following skills:

General Skills

• CG1. Possessing and understanding knowledge that defines and articulates early childhood, adolescents and families as an interdisciplinary space for different scientific areas (pedagogy, psychology, sociology, law, etc.), including intervention theories, methods and areas, at a level supported by advanced scientific documentation and including knowledge at the vanguard in this field of study and intervention
• CG2. Demonstrating that they know how to professionally apply this knowledge to the field of early childhood, adolescence and families by producing and defending arguments, and identifying, articulating and solving educational, psycho-pedagogical and social problems. In other words, ensure that students are training for professional practice as specialists and that they respect fundamental and equality rights, as well as the principles of universal equality, opportunity and accessibility for people with disabilities, and the values inherent to a culture of peace and democracy
• CG3. Having the ability to collect and interpret relevant information on behaviour in early childhood and adolescents, family structures and dynamics, and the contexts where they occur, in order to issue reasoned opinions on educational, psycho-pedagogical and social problems in the field of study and intervention
• CG4. Being able to transmit information, ideas, problems and solutions regarding issues linked to human behaviour to a specialised and more general public
• CG5. Developing the necessary learning skills to continue their training with a high level of independence, particularly to improve their professional abilities or to join PhD programmes that provide advanced training aimed at academic or research specialisation in the field of study and intervention.

Specific Skills

Master’s graduates must demonstrate that they have the knowledge and understanding of the following core concepts in the field of children and families:

• CE 1.1. The contributions and limitations of the main theory models in sociology and pedagogy regarding socio-education and psycho-pedagogy
• CE 1.2. The main contributions from other disciplines to knowledge about early childhood, adolescence and families, especially from law
• CE 1.3. The historical foundations of co-habitation methods and the concepts of early childhood and adolescence
• CE 1.4. The cultural factors and psycho-social principles involved in individual behaviour, as well as family structures and dynamics
• CE 1.5. The main research methods and designs, and advanced data analysis techniques
• CE 1.6. Different assessment and diagnosis methods and tools in different areas of early childhood, adolescence and families
• CE 1.7. Different assessment methods and procedures for programmes and services in different contexts: education, social services, organisations and the community.

Master’s graduates must demonstrate they have the necessary skills to apply the acquired knowledge. These are:

• CE 2.1. Being able to analyse and identify risks, needs and demands from both individual and family recipients in different areas of applications, from a networking perspective
• CE 2.2. Being able to set targets or objectives for actions regarding early childhood, adolescence and families in different contexts, proposing and negotiating based on the needs and demands of recipients and affected parties. In addition, being able to produce an intervention plan and techniques, and assess their results
• CE 2.3. Selecting and managing personal and specific intervention techniques and tools for early childhood, adolescence and families, and being able to assess the intervention
• CE 2.4. Being able to promote effective changes through personal and specific socio-educational intervention methods for individuals and families in different contexts: education, social services, organisations and the community; paying particular attention to promoting fundamental rights and equality between men and women, with the principles of universal equality, opportunity and accessibility for people with disabilities and the values inherent to a culture of peace and democracy
• CE 2.5. Appropriately and correctly transmitting assessment results, performance procedures and results of the process to recipient parties
• CE 2.6 Producing socio-educational reports in different activity areas aimed at recipients and other professionals and services.

Cross-cutting Skills

• T1. Understanding that any professional activity needs to be done in respect of fundamental rights, promoting gender equality, the principle of universal access and design for all individuals, and in protection of the environment, as well as in accordance with the values inherent to a culture of peace and democracy.

The Master’s Degree in Socio-educational Intervention for Children, Adolescents and Families offers 60 credits split across two levels, modules and subjects.

The programme offers two pathways: professional and research. The professional pathway comprises an external placement (seven credits) and a master’s thesis (six credits), with an emphasis on the degree’s applied and professional facet. External placements will be offered at a wide selection of renowned experienced institutions within the socio-educational intervention field. The research pathway comprises a 13-credit master’s thesis with an emphasis on scientific and research aspects.

The general distribution of the ECTS credits covers five modules, each comprising different subjects. The first covers aspects of theory with a sociological, legal and historical overview. The second covers methodology with subjects on multivariable analysis, need analysis and programme assessment. The third covers intervention with children, adolescents and families with more applied subjects on intervention techniques, socio-educational intervention and mediation.

The master’s programme ends with the submission and public defence of the master’s thesis. This will take place after all other required subjects have been passed to attain the degree.

The assessment criteria are set out in the course guide for each subject. These guides are published every year before the start of the enrolment period.

Directors of the Master's programme:

Dra. María del Carmen Orte Socías

Dra. María Belén Pascual Barrio

Academic Committee of the Degree Programme

• Quality Control Committee (CGQ)

Further information on the credit transfer and recognition system, regulations and procedure