Program Overview

Discover the MSc Clinical and Health Psychology programme, designed to provide an advanced understanding of mental and physical health and wellbeing. Located in vibrant Liverpool City Centre, this course uniquely blends cutting edge academic expertise with the latest clinical insights from experienced practitioners, enabling you to pursue a career in clinical or health psychology.

The MSc Clinical and Health Psychology course offers a unique curriculum, combining expert academics with cutting edge research, practitioner guest speakers, and those with lived experience to provide advanced knowledge in the research, theory and practice of Clinical and Health psychology. Build your understanding of the psychology of mental and physical health and wellbeing, psychological distress, and behavioural issues alongside receiving training in professional practice and research methods.

This course has been designed to prepare you with the academic knowledge and skills to prepare students to apply for further postgraduate study or careers in Clinical and Health Psychology. In particular, the course has been designed with input from the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology Team to help prepare students who wish to pursue a DClinPsy following graduation. The Department of Psychology also works closely with the University’s Careers and Employability Service to ensure students are provided with opportunities to undertake training to enhance their employability skills, as well as support students seeking to find either research or clinical volunteering or paid opportunities.

What you'll learn

• The knowledge and skills to prepare you for further postgraduate studies in the professions of clinical and health psychology
• The knowledge and skills to prepare you for research studies in clinical and health psychology
• Transferable skills which will enable you to pursue a wide range of careers in cognate disciplines
• A broad base of knowledge in clinical and health psychology, equipping you with the ability to scrutinise and critically evaluate both established theories, and more contentious ideas about human behaviour and experience.
• Specialised knowledge in selected areas of the disciplines of clinical and health psychology, informed by cutting-edge research and taught by an internationally recognised faculty.
• Developing, testing and communicating research ideas and highlighting the role of empirical research in the creation of knowledge
• High levels of discipline-specific and employability skills to ensure successful transition to further education and employment, either as Chartered Psychologists or psychologically literate professionals in other careers.
• A comprehensive understanding of professional working in research and practice settings, including ethical and statutory obligations.