Course Description
Our Mental Health, Ethics and Law MSc course is delivered by two internationally recognised centres of excellence and provides an integrated, strongly interdisciplinary, education in mental health, ethics and law. It equips graduates to become leaders in healthcare, mental health law or policy. You will have the unique opportunity to study alongside others from a wide range of academic and professional disciplines at the heart of London’s legal and psychiatric world.
Key benefits
- In-depth and integrated clinical, philosophical and legal analysis of key issues presented in the field of mental health.
- Supported by the UK’s first centre of medical law and ethics (CMLE) and Europe’s largest centre for research and teaching in psychiatry, psychology and neuroscience (IoPPN).
- Located in central London and maintains close links with national and international policy formers and leading legal and clinical practitioner communities.
- Generous scholarships are available to support the brightest and best students.
Entry Requirements
We expect a minimum 2:1 undergraduate degree in a relevant discipline (e.g. law, medicine, philosophy, psychology, theology, social science, one of the life sciences, or nursing studies).
OR
A qualification appropriate to the programme in medicine; or a professional mental health qualification.
Alternative qualifications: Evidence of achievement of an academic level comparable to at least 2:1 standard through past studies and where previous study, work or experience has made the applicant a suitable candidate will also be considered.
Fees
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/fees-and-funding/tuition-fees
Module Details
Required Modules
You are required to take the following modules:
- Mental Health Law: The Civil Context (20 credits)
- Mental Health Ethics (20 credits)
- Concepts of Psychiatry (20 credits)
- Dissertation (60 credits)
Optional Modules
You will choose 60-70 credits from a range of optional modules that may typically include:
- Pro-social & Anti-social Behaviour across the Lifespan (30 or 15 credits)
- Specialist Forensic Services: Assessment, Treatment & Development (30 or 15 credits)
- The Concept of Mental Disorder (20 credits)
- Narrative and Medicine (20 credits)
- Global Health Ethics (30 credits)
- Critical Global Health (30 credits)
- Ageing in a Global Context (15 credits)
- Psychiatry, Culture & Globalisation (15 credits)
- Principles of Psychiatric Research & Psychiatric Epidemiology (30 credits)
- Topics in Medical Law (20 credits)
- Medical Law 1: Consent, Refusal & Request (20 credits)
- Medical Law 2: Negligence & Misadventure (20 credits)
- Law at the End of Life 1 (20 credits)
- Criminal Law & Mental Disorder: Doctrine and Philosophy (20 credits)
- Moral Theory & Medical Ethics (20 credits)
- Ethics at the End of Life (20 credits)
- Topics in Medical Ethics I/II (20 credits)
- Disability & Enhancement (20 credits)
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