The Master of Science in Health Psychology and Clinical Skills programme offered by Teeside University in partnership with MDIS is designed to take prospective graduates nearer to achieving their ambition. This programme is developed to take both current and future psychologists keen on advancing their prospects in the field of behavioural medicine steps nearer to achieving their ambition of living an unlimted: from ordinary to milestone success.
The overall aims of the programme are to:
Provide students with knowledge of how Health Psychology can be effectively employed to facilitate and protect health in a variety of situations;
Develop students' ability to apply psychological knowledge and to discuss how to effect change and suggest alternatives in health care provision;
Stimulate students' ability to critically evaluate the nature and practice of research in Health Psychology and to demonstrate that healthcare development must be informed by research;
Enable students to develop their research, according to ethics codes of practice, which can inform the delivery of health care services;
Guide students in their experience of how to integrate the knowledge, understanding and skills gained in their programme of studies to facilitate their development as reflective Health Psychology practitioners;
Stimulate students' ability to understand and demonstrate the theory and practice of clinical skills relevant to Health Psychology; and
Provide students with the necessary qualifications for the first stage of their professional development as chartered psychologists within the Health and Care Professionals Council, United Kingdom guidelines.
