MSc Mental Health Practice

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If you are a mental health worker, our course – which is designed in collaboration with our partners in health and social care – offers you the opportunity to study for an academic award, develop your mental health practice and enhance your employability.

Mental Health Practitioner
Counsellor
Social Worker

Contemporary Context of Mental Health and Recovery

Explore the contemporary context of mental health and gain a critical understanding of mental health and mental health practice, with a focus on the narrative and the ethos of recovery.

Understanding and Evaluating the Evidence

Explore different types of information about health and social care and critically evaluate research material from a range of study designs.

Working with Complex Cases in Mental Health Practice

Develop your critical understanding of the theory, research, legal, political and social drivers that are influencing contemporary mental health practice in relation to people considered to be complex cases.

Understanding Social Research and Evaluation

Gain a theoretical, methodological and practical foundation for social research enabling you to act as a social researcher to resolve practice based problems.

Research in Practice (Dissertation)

Produce a substantial research project on a self-selected topic of interest, demonstrating your developmental learning in addition to a variety of academic and practical skills.