Clinical Applications of Psychology MSc

Please note that this is an indicative list of modules and is not intended as a definitive list.

Part time students take three modules in the first year (90 credits) and 2 modules in the second year (90 credits).

• Clinical Applications of Psychology
• Professional Practice
• Psychology Dissertation
• Psychopathology Across the Life Span
• Research Design and Analysis

This course will enhance your knowledge of the clinical applications of psychology and build practical experience to help your future career.

You will be taught by both clinically active psychologists and research active academics. You will learn theories of psychopathology from childhood to adulthood, and clinical applications of psychology in health and wellbeing. The course offers skills training in counselling and cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT), and develops your awareness of professional issues relevant to clinical practitioners.

We will support you to find a placement through our links with charity organisations, local community groups or hospitals, all of which aim to promote positive mental health wellbeing. Recently our students have undertaken placements at:

• Place2Be, a charity working with school children to improve their psychological well-being
• Paiwand, a charity supporting refugee children
• Rise, a social enterprise supporting people with mental health problems
• Kingston Hospital, on an initiative enhancing psychological care for patients with dementia

Our students have also gained placements working with clinical psychologists as an assistant clinical psychologist in organisations such as Central & North West London (CNWL) NHS Foundation Trust and the Kingston Early Intervention Service at Tolworth Hospital.

If you have already secured a clinical placement prior to the start of the course, we can offer research placements within Kingston University's Psychology Department.