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Course summary

Learn to apply different approaches, theories and models to health-related issues and behaviour change.
Develop your ability to reflect on your practice, planning and personal development.
Build an understanding of clinical practitioner skills to enhance your applied work with patients, service users and clients in a variety of health and social care settings.
Apply problem solving strategies to complex professional scenarios.
Develop research and literature reviewing skills.

This course focuses on health psychology’s approach to understanding people’s experience of illness, disability and health. You'll acquire knowledge and skills that enhance your professional practice, enable you to meet new challenges, and understand ways to improve care.

How you learn

All our courses are designed around a set of key principles based on engaging you with the world, collaborating with others, challenging you to think in new ways, and providing you with a supportive environment in which you can thrive.

This course is multi-disciplinary, exploring health and illness in terms of its psychological, sociological, biological and political context. Areas of study include biopsychosocial approaches to acute illness, adjustment to long-term conditions and bereavement, clinical practitioner skills and competencies and behaviour change interventions.

Modules combine online learning with weekly on-campus study days. This provides flexible learning opportunities to enable a diverse range of students to study Â鶹ԭ´´ employment and/or family commitments. Students attend an induction on campus in September, before typically attending one day per week thereafter.

You learn through

online study
group work
problem solving
practitioner skills workshops

Future careers

This course prepares you for a career in

Health promotion
Nursing
Social work
Medical practice
Physiotherapy
Dietetics
Drug and alcohol rehabilitation
Mental health and wellbeing