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Study Details: 1 year full-time
2 years part-time
With this MSc Health Psychology degree you’ll build on your health psychology knowledge to understand health and health behaviours more fully, help patients better manage their long-term illness or recovery and help healthcare professionals improve their provision.
You'll gain a thorough grounding in the main areas of health psychology: practice, theory and research. You'll learn how biological, emotional and social factors and the environment can affect physical wellbeing, and how to prevent this. You’ll also learn how a person living with a chronic conditions is affected by it, how they manage of it and you'll develop the skills and knowledge to support them.
Recognising the value of work experience, a placement is a central part of the course. We expect students to complete 100 hours of work placement activity and will support students to identify suitable opportunities.
Applicants should normally have or expect to obtain at least an upper second-class honours degree in Psychology or closely related subject that is recognised by The British Psychological Society as conferring Graduate Basis for Chartered membership (GBC).
Applicants from other degree subjects containing a significant element of psychology, may also be considered on a case-by-case basis.
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This MSc in Health Psychology provides the Stage 1 training for you to practise as a health psychologist. Upon successful completion of the course, you'll be able to apply for Stage 2.
This course is accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS).
Graduates of this course have gone onto roles such as:
Health Psychologist trainee
Research Assistant
Applied Health Psychology and Placement - 30 credits
Applied Psychological Research Methods - 30 credits
Health Psychology Research Project - 60 credits
Psychobiological Aspects of Health - 30 credits
Theories and Intervention Approaches in Health Psychology - 30 credits
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