Health Psychology

Entry requirements

• An honours degree (minimum Upper Second) in psychology, or overseas equivalent, which confers Graduate Basis for Chartered Membership (GBC) status with the British Psychological Society (BPS). If you are unsure whether your degree gives you eligibility for the GBC, you can check whether your degree was accredited for your intake year on the BPS website. Home students with a degree which is not listed may need to take an accredited conversion course prior to applying. If you are an overseas student and your degree was not accredited by the BPS you can apply for graduate membership on the BPS website.
• A minimum of an Upper Second in all BSc research methods units and the dissertation.

Months of entry

September

Course content

Are you interested in how psychology can be applied to health, illness and healthcare, and how interventions can be used to improve outcomes and the experience of healthcare?

Our MSc in Health Psychology is designed for students interested in a career in health psychology and has been accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS).

On successful completion of a BPS-accredited MSc in Health Psychology, students who hold BPS Graduate Basis for Chartership can continue to Stage 2 training to become Chartered Psychologists with the BPS and to become registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) as Registered Health Psychologists.

You will learn from staff at the Manchester Centre for Health Psychology, covering topics such as:

• key theories in health psychology and how to apply them;
• current approaches to changing health-related behaviour at individual, population and regulatory levels;
• the interaction between psychological processes (cognitions, emotions, behaviour) and disease and illness;
• the ways in which social-cultural factors contribute to health;
• advanced research methods and analysis techniques in both quantitative and qualitative research;
• the role and scope of health psychology within academic and healthcare settings.

You will also have the opportunity to attend research seminars.