Mental Health Practice PGCert
Postgraduate
In Brighton
Description
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Type
Postgraduate
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Location
Brighton
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Duration
1 Year
Mental health practitioners are in demand, nationally and locally. This course gives you the skills to practice up to Associate Practitioner level in NHS Mental Health Services.
You’ll develop knowledge in a range of therapeutic practices, assessment, ethics, and partnership and recovery working.
You also become familiar with being part of a multidisciplinary team within NHS Mental Health Services, engaging with adults experiencing complex mental health difficulties.
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About this course
Graduate destinations
94% of students from the School of Psychology were in work or further study six months after graduating. Recent graduates have gone on to jobs including:
applied behaviour analysis tutor, Step By Step
early help keyworker, East Sussex County Council
children’s wellbeing practitioner, West London Mental Health Trust.
You should normally have an upper second-class (2.1) undergraduate honours degree or above.
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Subjects
- Mental Health
- Therapeutic
- Emerging
- Techniques
- Recovery
- Fundamentals
- Health Care
- Diagnosis
- Formulation
- Professional
Course programme
These modules are running in the academic year 2018/19. We also plan to offer them in future academic years. They may become unavailable due to staff availability, student demand or updates to our curriculum. We’ll make sure to let our applicants know of such changes to modules at the earliest opportunity.
Core modules
Core modules are taken by all students on the course. They give you a solid grounding in your chosen subject and prepare you to explore the topics that interest you most.
Therapeutic Tools for the Emerging Practitioner: skills, techniques and models of engagement
- Recovery, Collaboration and Partnership in Clinical Practice
- Understanding the Fundamentals of Mental Health Care
- Ways of Understanding Mental Health Problems: Diagnosis, Formulation and Recovery
Additional information
Fees are not yet set for entry in the academic year 2019/20 but will be published here as soon as they are available. Note that your fees, once they’re set, may be subject to an increase on an annual basis.
Mental Health Practice PGCert