MSc Mental Health, Ethics & Law at King's College London

Our Mental Health, Ethics & Law MSc is delivered by two internationally recognised centres of excellence and provides an integrated, strongly interdisciplinary education in mental health, ethics, and law. It equips graduates to become leaders in healthcare, mental health law, or policy. As a student on the programme, you will have the unique opportunity to study alongside others from a wide range of academic and professional disciplines, at the heart of London’s legal and psychiatric world.

Faculty: The Dickson Poon School of Law  |  Duration: One year full-time, September to September, two years part-time  |  Study mode: full-time / part-time  |  Intake: September 2027  |  Location: London, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

This strongly interdisciplinary programme will enable you to investigate the interface between mental health, law and ethics at a theoretical level and to engage directly with the dilemmas and experience of illness encountered in practice. It will expand your understanding both within and beyond your own disciplines, and will provide you with the skills necessary to analyse and critique current mental health law, policy and clinical practice. The programme is for anyone concerned with mental health who wishes to study the clinical, ethical and legal thinking behind current law, policy and practice.

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