PGDip Mental Health: Psychological Therapies
On this Postgraduate Diploma, you’ll learn how to understand the signs, symptoms and labelling strategies used in deciphering complex mental health issues, making you a more effective member of your service team. You’ll also learn study skills and presentation skills and engage in group tasks using problem-based learning, role-play, and group discussion.
You’ll learn about psychological therapies including individual cognitive behavioural therapies, cognitive analytic therapies, psychodynamic therapies, as well as group and family therapies.
Your course placement will give you experience of supervised practice and will develop your ability to work with emotional, behavioural and psychological distress.
The Psychological Therapies pathway also provides you with an experiential group to learn about your own mental life and emotional world and how to deal with uncertainty and worry, in a confidential and safe environment with expert group therapists.
In addition, you’ll also develop your research skills and complete a placement report. By the time you complete the programme, you’ll be an able communicator, adept at expressing your ideas in spoken or written form.
Mental Health: Psychological Therapies is also available to study to MSc level.
You may have to pay for travel to placements.
Some placement providers may ask you to provide your own DBS assessment, which will cost between £30 and £50, depending on the provider.
On this Postgraduate Diploma, you’ll learn how to understand the signs, symptoms and labelling strategies used in deciphering complex mental health issues, making you a more effective member of your service team. You’ll also learn study skills and presentation skills and engage in group tasks using problem-based learning, role-play, and group discussion.
You’ll learn about psychological therapies including individual cognitive behavioural therapies, cognitive analytic therapies, psychodynamic therapies, as well as group and family therapies.
Your course placement will give you experience of supervised practice and will develop your ability to work with emotional, behavioural and psychological distress.
The Psychological Therapies pathway also provides you with an experiential group to learn about your own mental life and emotional world and how to deal with uncertainty and worry, in a confidential and safe environment with expert group therapists.
In addition, you’ll also develop your research skills and complete a placement report. By the time you complete the programme, you’ll be an able communicator, adept at expressing your ideas in spoken or written form.
Mental Health: Psychological Therapies is also available to study to MSc level.
You may have to pay for travel to placements.
Some placement providers may ask you to provide your own DBS assessment, which will cost between £30 and £50, depending on the provider.
