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MSc Mental Health: Cultural Psychology and Psychiatry
at Queen Mary University of London

London, United Kingdom

Tuition Fee £ 20,750
Country Rank-
Duration12 Months
Score IELTS: 6.5 TOEFL: 92

Program Overview

This MSc will give you a sophisticated understanding of the impact of socio-cultural factors in mental health, mental illness and mental health care, with a specific focus on the role of culture in the diagnosis of mental illness and in the delivery of different psychological and psychiatric therapeutic approaches. You’ll understand the cultural contexts of mental health problems, learn about the innovative ways care is delivered cross-culturally and gain experience of working with people from diverse cultural backgrounds.

Develop a critical insight into the role of culture in mental health as well as psychological and psychiatric practice, enhancing both your clinical and research skills.
Gain a global perspective on the ethical and methodological challenges of mental health research and practice in various settings worldwide, in multicultural societies and with diverse populations enabling you to work with culturally diverse populations.
Take a supervised placement in a clinical setting or mental health organisation.
Gain a comprehensive training in research methods and writing.
Learn from leading experts in the field.

Course Content
This programme is designed to improve your understanding of the impact of socio-cultural factors on mental health, mental illness and mental health care disciplines and delivery. It will enable you to work in a research or mental health care role in a multicultural setting both here in the UK and abroad as well as put you in a position to pursue further training to qualify as a therapist, social worker or clinical psychologist.

You will examine how cultural factors such as belief systems, values, ethnicity, practices and traditions can affect an individual’s mental health risk – and their resilience. You’ll also look at how migration, race and other cultural phenomena intersect to create mental health challenges and how these can be addressed in direct clinical practice and mental health care systems through the implementation of innovative therapies as well as the adaptation of current psychological approaches and care pathways.

You’ll organise and complete a supervised placement with a mental health service or organisation that provides support to a diverse range of people (eg the NHS, a third sector organisation or a global mental health and development agency). Clinical placements will give you experience of supervised practice and will develop your ability to work with emotional, behavioural and psychological distress within and across different cultural contexts. An organisational/policy focused placement will give you the opportunity to observe and engage in the cultural processes that shape how mental health services are structured and delivered.

In addition, you’ll develop your research skills and complete a research project.

Please note this programme does not equip you to be registered as a psychotherapist in the UK, for which you must pursue additional advanced training.

Mental Health: Cultural Psychology and Psychiatry is also available to study to PgDip or PgCert level.

Additional costs
You may have to pay for travel to placements.

Structure
- Six compulsory modules
- 10,000-15,000-word dissertation
Entry Requirement
UK
Degree requirements
A 2:2 or above at undergraduate level in Psychology, Medicine or a related discipline.

Student Visa Regulations

If you will require a Student visa to study in the UK, you must meet the minimum English Language requirements to meet the UKVI regulations. The minimum IELTS requirement is 5.5 in all four skills (Writing, Reading, Speaking and Listening). However, many of our courses require higher grades.

Pre-sessional English Language Courses

If you fall slightly below our standard English language requirements, you may consider one of our Pre-sessional English courses. Please note that you will require a UK government approved Secure English Language Test (SELT) for entry to our Thirteen week pre-sessional courses. Currently, only IELTS for UKVI, PTE Academic (UKVI), LanguageCert International ESOL SELT and Trinity College London, Integrated Skills in English (ISE) are accepted. The Pre-sessional English course requirements are published according to the academic department within which your chosen course of study is administere
Fees & Scholarships
- Full-time study
September 2022 | 1 year

Home: £10,250
Overseas: £20,750

Unconditional deposit
Home: Not applicable

Overseas: £2000
- Part-time study
September 2022 | 2 years

Home: £5,150
Overseas: £10,400

Unconditional deposit
Home: Not applicable

Overseas: £2000
Career Prospect
This programme is ideal if you want to:
- pursue a career in psychology or psychiatry
- work in an international setting or pursue research in cultural and global issues in mental health care.
The course has allowed students who were already practicing clinicians, to develop their own practice with culturally diverse populations and to implement cultural competency programmes in their services.

Students who have completed this course have gone on to:
- pursue research doctorates in clinical psychology
- take on assistant psychologist roles within the NHS and third sector
- gain research assistant roles.
This programme doesn’t equip you to be registered as a psychotherapist in the UK: you’ll need additional advanced training for that. However, this course does prepare you for such training.

Cost Of Studying At Queen Mary University of London

Interest rates as low as 8.9% ^*

250K+

Students Assisted

800Cr+

Loan Amount Disbursed

5000+

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MSc Mental Health: Cultural Psychology and Psychiatry at Queen Mary University of London