Health Psychology MSc
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Postgraduate
In St Andrews
Description
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Type
Postgraduate
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Location
St andrews (Scotland)
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Duration
1 Year
The MSc in Health Psychology starts students on the path to becoming a Chartered Psychologist and provides training in the applications of psychological theory and research methods.
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About this course
Completion of the course provides a Stage 1 Professional Training for Chartered Health Psychologist status with the British Psychological Society.
Students have the opportunity for placements in clinical settings, participating in at least 12 clinical placement visits (students will be required to meet travel costs of approximately £120).
Students can access numerous labs including the Prep and Consultation labs (used for behavioural health-related research) and the Simulation Lab at the School of Medicine (used for running experimental studies and conducting face-to-face or telephone interviews).
Students enrolled on the MSc Health Psychology go on to employment opportunities in the NHS Psychological or Public Health Services or join health services research programmes.
The Careers Centre offers one-to-one advice to all students on a taught postgraduate course and offers a programme of events to assist students in building their employability skills.
A 2.1 undergraduate Honours degree in Psychology. This must be recognised by the British Psychological Society for Graduate Basis for Chartered Membership (GBC).
If you studied your first degree outside the UK, see the international entry requirements.
English language proficiency. See English language tests and qualifications.
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The course was nice in flexible and his staff was very friendly and easily approachable. There are so many opportunities where students can get involved with the societies and activities.
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A great university with excellent sports facilities that gets better day-by-day and with extremely good academic staff.
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Subjects
- Psychology
- Project
- Health Psychology
- Communication
- Behaviour
- Biological Systems
- Decision Making
- Data analysis
- Research
- Professional
Course programme
Semester 1
- Quality of Life, Communication and Chronic Illness: quality of life in health care settings, and the issues of caring for an increasing number of patients within modern health services with chronic conditions.
- Theories of Health Psychology and Behaviour Change: covers the context and perspectives of health psychology, including a historical overview and current theories and approaches in health psychology.
Semester 2
- Biological Systems and Development: introduces the importance of biological and developmental systems to the understanding of people's perceived and actual health status including methods of assessing health behaviour and intervening to change health behaviour.
- Health Information, Prevention and Decision Making: the issues of provision of information and surrounding the decisions made by the general public about their health care.
- Methods of Data Analysis in Psychology: advanced training in common statistics, qualitative methods and statistical modelling.
- Generic Research and Professional Skills in Psychology: introduces students to the various skills and issues that are of importance to academic psychologists irrespective of their particular area of research.
Students will conduct and report a research project from a health psychology perspective. Projects may comprise field or laboratory-based studies.
The research project will be planned during both academic semesters and written during the summer. It will involve two to three months of data collection and will be written up as a 5000-word dissertation, in appropriate scientific journal style, to be submitted by a date specified in August.
Students will be assigned a supervisor who will provide guidance during the planning, research and writing phases.
If students choose not to complete the dissertation requirement for the MSc, there is an exit award available that allows suitably qualified candidates to receive a Postgraduate Diploma. By choosing an exit award, you will finish your degree at the end of the second semester of study and receive a PGDip instead of an MSc.
Health Psychology MSc