How can we understand intervene and promote health and wellbeing across the course of life? Health psychology works to answer this question looking towards the interaction of psychological social and biological factors to understand health and illness.
Health psychology moves away from the medicalisation of health and illness. Instead on this course you take a more whole-person approach to understanding health and illness studying social issues and aspects such as obesity lifestyle and stress. Taught by an academic team actively involved in research in the field you benefit from their up-to-the-minute knowledge and research skills.
This course forms stage one of the training you need to become a chartered psychologist member of the Division of Health Psychology within the British Psychological Society.
UK applicants should have a good undergraduate degree at Honours level, or equivalent.
To be admitted to the course you are normally required:
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For fees and funding options, please visit website to find out more.
There are numerous sources of funding available for postgraduate students, both from external sources such as the Government and from the University.
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.
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