Psychology with Clinical & Health Psychology

Bangor University

You’ll specialise in understanding the psychological factors involved in mental and physical health, their causes, treatment, and prevention. In clinical psychology, you’ll study behavioural problems in children, mental illness in adults, and psychological problems in old age including important contemporary issues such as eating disorders and drug misuse. In health psychology, you’ll examine the psychological factors that lead some individuals to behave in health-damaging ways and what happens when individuals become ill or disabled.As well as gaining a thorough understanding of the broad range of topics relevant to modern-day psychology, you’ll specialise in understanding the psychological factors involved in mental and physical health and you’ll develop clinically relevant skills and knowledge. In clinical psychology, you’ll study behavioural problems in children, mental illness in adults, and psychological problems in old age. This will include important contemporary issues such as eating disorders, body dysmorphia, and drug misuse. You’ll analyse, not only what causes these problems but also how they can be treated, or, even better, prevented. In health psychology, you’ll examine the psychological factors that lead some individuals to behave in health-damaging ways, such as eating unhealthy diets, not taking enough exercise, or engaging in unsafe sexual behaviour. You’ll study what happens when individuals do become ill or disabled, with diseases such as heart disease and cancer, and how stress can impact general health. As well as understanding how things can go wrong, you’ll analyse how the situation can be improved through psychological interventions such as counselling and mindfulness, as well as the positive benefits of the science of wellbeing.CareersPsychology with Clinical and Health Psychology focuses on developing skills suitable for a career in clinical practice but is still suitable for students who want to follow any of the main psychological professions (clinical psychology, educational psychology, counselling psychology, health psychology, etc). In addition, there are careers open to graduates and postgraduates from any discipline. These include, for example, careers in management training, accountancy, teaching, nursing, social work, the police, and the armed forces. Employers are usually looking for general or transferable skills, and a psychology degree provides a unique combination of these as it is both a literate and numerate discipline.Previous graduates from the BSc Psychology with Clinical and Health Psychology course have gone into a wide range of career paths including, but not limited to, assistant psychologists and clinical psychologists, research and academia, working in schools and prisons as well as data scientists in industry.Employability is a key theme of all the psychology programmes you can follow at Bangor and we have embedded a large number of opportunities within our degrees that provide you as strong a CV as possible and equip you with a host of transferable skills that are relevant to both psychology and non-psychology related careers. The simple fact that you