MSc Psychology of Mental Health and Wellbeing

What you will learn

Studying the online MSc Psychology of Mental Health and Wellbeing, you will develop the specialist knowledge and skills of mental health practitioners, exploring key areas including clinical psychology, counselling psychology and mental health online. You will also gain a comprehensive knowledge base in other psychological disciplines, relating to historical and contemporary approaches to understanding a wide range of human behaviour.

Knowledge and skills taught include:

• Clinical and counselling psychology
• Mental health online
• Social psychology
• Developmental psychology
• Psychology of learning
• Personality and individual differences
• Psychology of social interaction
• Cyberpsychology
• Psychology of everyday life
• Research methods and statistics

Teaching and Research Excellence

A psychology department with an innovative and research-led culture and philosophy.

The unique culture that our Department of Psychology has engendered is built around innovation, creative thinking and rigorous, impactful research – with every individual and idea encouraged and valued. This has contributed to our research credentials, with 85% of research recognised as ‘world-leading’ or ‘of international importance’. The teaching excellence of the University was also recognised in the form of a commendation from the Quality Assurance Agency – the highest accolade that can be awarded to a university.

Through partnerships with business, hospitals, government, prisons and charities, our highly skilled academic team has created a learning economy that has fed into and shaped both our culture and our online psychology courses.