Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Study Details: 1 year full-time / 2 years part-time
Health psychology is a rapidly growing discipline, which can make a huge contribution to some of the big health issues currently facing society, such as chronic health conditions, health inequalities, and health-risk behaviours such as alcohol use, smoking, sedentary lifestyle, and more.
On this course, you’ll ask questions about the key health issues facing our communities, from our ageing population to pressurised health services, global health challenges and health inequalities. You’ll explore health behaviour change, neuropsychology, effective communication skills for working in diverse teams and with clients, and research methods. You might apply psychology to ensuring that children get enough physical activity, in understanding the experience of people living with a stroke, or how we can help people with diabetes to take their medications. You’ll also have the opportunity to undertake a work-integrated learning experience to apply your knowledge and skills.
This course has been submitted to the British Psychological Society (BPS) for professional accreditation.
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You could find yourself working in an NHS or public health team as an assistant psychologist, a psychological wellbeing practitioner, a smoking cessation practitioner, a weight management specialist, or a health coach. Other opportunities include working in a commercial organisation, providing valuable insights into human health-related behaviour and evaluating interventions, or in charitable organisations providing support to clients. You may also work in a research organisation conducting research on patient needs, preferences, and experiences, for example. Alternatively, you may want to go on to pursue a PhD or train to become a qualified health psychologist.
Following your MSc Health Psychology at Manchester Met, you will need to complete doctoral-level health psychology training and register with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), to practice as a health psychologist in the UK. You might work with patients with long-term conditions at an NHS hospital or in a private practice, in design solutions for a health-related commercial organisation or lead stop smoking services in public health.
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