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Health Psychology
|MSc
|Full Time
| Admissions status: OpenPURPOSE
The principal educational aims are to:
- provide an up-to-date and thorough grounding in the theories, concepts and empirical findings in Health Psychology;
- provide formal training in quantitative and qualitative research methods, so that students are able to evaluate, plan and conduct research;
- prepare students for a subsequent research degree or professional training in Health Psychology (i.e. PhD and/or BPS Stage 2);
- equip students to apply the scientific and theoretical basis of Health Psychology using a scholarly and critical approach;
- enable students to disseminate psychological approaches.DESCRIPTION
Module teaching will account for two full days each week, a research project is self-directed with supervision.
Students will also have a clinical placement for one day a week lasting 8-10 weeks.
KEY FACTS
Programme leader/s
Professor Rona Moss-Morris; Dr Joe Chilcot
Accreditation
British Psychological Society as Stage One training towards becoming a Chartered Health Psychologist.
Awarding institution
King's College London
Credit value (UK/ECTS equivalent)
UK 180/ECTS 90
Duration
One year FT, September to September (two days per week plus additional clinical placement sessions).
Location
Psychology Unit, Guy's Campus.
Student destinations
Research Assistants, PhD studies, continue to complete BPS Stage 2 and practice as a Health Psychologist in clinical settings, jobs in behaviour relevant to health, illness and health care delivery, e.g. smoking cessation adviser.
Year of entry 2013
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