Program Overview
This health psychology program explores the application of psychology to understanding and improving health outcomes in various healthcare settings. It provides graduates with skills for careers in hospitals, universities, and community organizations. The program emphasizes transferable skills for international careers and includes strands on social and cultural diversity and inter-professional relationships. Successful graduates can progress to stage two training for registration as practitioner psychologists.
Program Outline
Careers:
Successful graduates (who already hold a BPS-accredited undergraduate award in Psychology) can progress on to stage two training in Health Psychology in order to attain registration as a practitioner psychologist.
Other:
There is a significant focus on developing skills that are transferable to a variety of careers and contexts on an international level. The course is designed to improve your understanding in professional areas such as ethics and reflective practice to enhance your employability across a range of health and social care careers. The course also benefits from two distinctive strands, especially pertinent to working as a contemporary health psychologist – social and cultural diversity, and inter-professional relationships.
