Universities United Kingdom Coventry University Courses Health Psychology MSc

Health Psychology MSc
at Coventry University

Coventry, United Kingdom

Tuition Fee £ 18,600
Country Rank-
Duration12 Months
Score IELTS: 6.5

Program Overview

Accredited by British Psychological Society (BPS) for the 2020/21 intake, this course is designed to help you become a practising health psychologist. Upon successful completion of the course you will have completed stage one training - the first step towards Chartered Membership with the BPS and registration as a health psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) (registration fees payable to the HCPC and BPS apply). Successful completion of the course will enable you to use your knowledge and skills to deploy psychological techniques to a range of healthcare scenarios to promote physical health and general wellbeing, and to improve patient outcomes.

Course Content
The MSc Health Psychology at Coventry University builds on your undergraduate knowledge and skills to provide an in-depth understanding of health psychology. Used in a range of applied settings, health psychology helps promote healthier lifestyles (e.g. supporting people to lose weight or stop smoking), helps people to live well with long term conditions (e.g. self-manage their diabetes appropriately) and to improve the healthcare system (e.g. advise doctors about better ways to communicate with patients).

Overview

You will complete 11 mandatory modules in total in your first year which will include a mixture of theory-based and research methods modules. The course is grounded in a scientist-practitioner perspective which emphasises the importance of empirical research for applied practice. A critical understanding of research underpins the work of practitioners and is of foundational importance for anyone wishing to practice health psychology. As such, research training in both quantitative and qualitative methods and critical assessment of research is of central importance within the course.
You also engage in your own independent empirical research project on a health psychology-related topic.
This course also includes a Professional Development module which is an individually tailored version of the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) Professional Development module. Please see the Accreditation and Professional Recognition section.

Modules
- Semester 1
  
  Health Promotion and Behaviour Change
  
  Stress, Health and Wellbeing
  
  Critical Perspectives in Health Psychology
  
  Research design and Ethics
- Semester 2
  
  Interactions and Healthcare Contexts
  
  Living Well with Long-term Conditions
  
  Analysing Data and Reporting Research
  
  Developing Professional Practice in Health Psychology
- Semester 3
  
  Synthesising Evidence
  
  Empirical Project in Health Psychology
  
  Global Professional Development - Entrepreneurship (CIM accredited module
Entry Requirement
Students must achieve 60% in a three year undergraduate degree or 55% in a four year undergraduate degree students from the following universities will be considered with 55% in a three year undergraduate degree (unless applying for School of Health and Care courses): Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai (Madras), Anna, Amity, Andhra Pradesh, Aligarh Muslim, Pune, Bangalore and JNTU.
65% in Standard XII English language from certain examination boards only (Central boards, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Uttarakhand).

Fees & Scholarships

International Tuition Fees:

£18600 per year

Career Prospect

Knowledge and skills developed on successful completion of the course can be applied in many different settings including hospitals, local authorities, universities, schools, charities, social enterprises and organisations.

Where our graduates work

Graduates of the course have gone on to a range of positive destinations including further study such as Stage 2 (doctoral-level) training in health psychology, PhD study or a doctorate in Clinical Psychology. Others have applied their skills in a range of roles such as Health Improvement Advisor, Wellbeing Practitioner, Workplace Wellbeing Co-ordinator, Healthy Lifestyle coach, Public Health Practitioner and Research Assistant/Fellow.

Cost Of Studying At Coventry University

Interest rates as low as 8.9% ^*

250K+

Students Assisted

800Cr+

Loan Amount Disbursed

5000+

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Health Psychology MSc at Coventry University