Health Psychology MSc

University of Bedfordshire

Postgraduate

In Luton

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Description

  • Type

    Postgraduate

  • Location

    Luton

About the course This course is for students who want to study how psychology helps us understand health-related behaviours, and how it can have a positive impact on wellbeing. It forms stage one of the training you need to become a charted psychologist member of the Division of Health Psychology within the BPS.

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Location

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Luton (Bedfordshire)
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University Of Bedfordshire Business School, Luton Campus (Vicarage Street), LU1 3JU

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On request

About this course

Applicants should have a good undergraduate degree at Honours level, or equivalent.

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Subjects

  • Psychology
  • Health Psychology

Course programme

  • Study important topics facing society such as obesity, lifestyle and stress, and examine them from the viewpoint of staff currently researching these topics
  • Explore the explicit links between scientific theory and practice by showing how a critical understanding of theory may guide the collection and interpretation of empirical data within a given context
  • Develop a systematic understanding of knowledge and a critical awareness of current problems, and acquire new insights into the theory and practice of health psychology
  • Gain a high level of knowledge of qualitative and quantitative research methods that will allow you to perform complex data analysis, interpretation, evaluation and synthesis, and develop your competence in a range of techniques including multivariate analyses
  • Benefit from the development of a strong sense of personal responsibility and professionalism that will enable you to practise or conduct research within ethical guidelines.
  • Advanced Research Methods for Health Psychology
  • 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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