Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Study Details: 1 year, full-time
2 years, part-time
This course enables you to develop your understanding of how psychology and health can be used to promote general wellbeing. You learn how to apply the scientific and theoretical principles and ideas of health psychology while developing the practical skills and knowledge required for employment or research in the field. You study social and psychological issues, including aspects such as obesity, lifestyle and stress, and explore how we can understand, intervene and promote health and wellbeing across the lifespan.
2.2 honours degree or equivalent in related area
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This BPS-accredited MSc opens the way to stage two training to become a chartered psychologist and registered health psychologist. Career options include working for the government (for example, advising on policy making, effective interventions or advertising strategies); research preventing illnesses especially coronary heart disease and cancer; and patient/practitioner communications and teaching. Graduates also work in the NHS on preparing for surgery and psychological methods to manage stress, pain or terminal illness.
If you wish to move into employment following graduation, there are a variety of areas where you will find opportunities such as research; teaching; social care; health care including roles in the NHS; business including human resource management; and the sports sector.
You will also have acquired specific knowledge in research methods and other core areas in psychology to continue your research studies at PhD level.
Advanced Research Methods for Psychologists
Perceptions and Actions
Lifestyle and Individual Differences
Public Health
Health Psychology in Context
Mechanisms of Health and Disease
Stress, coping and chronic disease
Professional skills for Health Psychologists
Dissertation (Health Psychology)
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