MSc Health Psychology at University of Bedfordshire

This course develops your understanding of how psychology can be used to promote health and general wellbeing. You apply the scientific and theoretical principles of health psychology while developing practical skills for employment or research. You study social and psychological issues such as obesity, lifestyle and stress, and how to understand, intervene and promote health across the lifespan.

Faculty: School of Sport, Psychology and Social Science  |  Department: Psychology  |  Study mode: full-time; part-time  |  Intake: September  |  Location: Luton, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

Units include Professional skills for health psychologists; Advanced research methods for psychologists; Perceptions and actions; Health psychology in context; Public health; Mechanisms of health and disease; Stress, coping and chronic disease.

Career pathways

This BPS-accredited MSc opens the way to stage two training to become a chartered psychologist and registered health psychologist, with careers in government policy, illness-prevention research, patient/practitioner communication and teaching.

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