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Overview

The Mental Health and Wellbeing course is designed to nurture an understanding of the factors that characterise and influence mental health and wellbeing. The course aims to provide a grounding in relevant theory and research, as well as develop research methods skills, and an appreciation of real-world practice all of which is designed to develop graduates with the knowledge and skills needed to make a positive impact in the field of mental health and wellbeing.

Completion of the course will lead to a number of career opportunities worldwide, including in research, teaching, and applied settings. Students might use the course as a stepping stone to specialised PhD study. Furthermore, although the course does not culminate in a practitioner qualification, its content is highly relevant to those eventually wishing to apply for training in clinical psychology, psychotherapy, counselling, or coaching.

Key features

• Develop your practical and professional skills through short inter-professional education (IPE) events involving interactions with people with lived experiences, service users, and health and social care professionals
• Build an awareness of the range of contemporary and traditional therapeutic approaches that may be employed in the treatment and prevention of mental health problems.
• Develop a critical understanding of the psychological theory and research that underpin the study of mental health and wellbeing.
• Understand traditional and contemporary approaches to the study of wellbeing and living a good life, including interventions to improve wellbeing, and the application of wellbeing principles in varied contexts such as work and school.
• Benefit from our experienced teaching staff, which includes a compliment of both research active academic psychologists as well as practitioner psychologists.
• Put theory in practice in our dedicated psychology teaching facilities including a suite of research rooms and computer labs with the latest experiment building software.
• This course is block taught meaning you will study one or two modules at a time, instead of several at once providing you with a simpler timetable with more time to engage with your studies and to enjoy other aspects of student life.
• UK students enrolled on this course will receive a professional psychology package worth over 拢1,000, including a high-spec HP laptop, complete with industry-standard psychology software, SPSS, and a British Psychological Society (BPS) membership, giving you the tools go further with postgraduate study at DMU. Terms and Conditions apply.

Graduate careers

Completion of the course will lead to a number of career opportunities worldwide, including research, teaching and those within the caring professions. It also facilitates career development and progression. Other students might use the course as a stepping-stone to specialised PhD study.