Mental Health, Ethics and Law

King’s College London

Master

In London

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Description

  • Type

    Master

  • Location

    London

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.
The course information sheet is a printable version of the information on this web page, which you can download here.

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.

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London
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Strand, WC2R 2LS

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Subjects

  • Mental Health
  • Psychiatry
  • IT Law
  • Ethics
  • Global
  • Law
  • Medical
  • Part Time
  • Medical training

Course programme

Year 1

The course is divided into modules. Graduation with the MSc qualification requires a total of 180 credits, however, 190 credits can be taken.

Full-time students will take all of these credits in one year. Part-time students can choose how many credits to take in each of their two years.

It is recommended, but not required, that part-time students take at least some 20 credit required modules in their first year. The dissertation must be taken in the second year part-time.

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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