PGCert Mental Health: Research and Practice

How can we better understand mental health conditions and how can we treat them?

Our Mental Health: Research and Practice MSc provides you with a unique balance between learning about the psychology behind key mental health issues and how to conduct research in the field.

Examine how mental health conditions are caused, diagnosed, assessed, and treated. As well as specific mental health research methods, models and approaches.

Conduct mental health assessments and cognitive testing, including measuring brain activity and physiological processes, to understand more about the basis of mental health difficulties in the Institute of Mental Health. One of the leading institutes for interdisciplinary mental health research in the UK.

You'll be taught by research-active experts in the field, both clinicians and non-clinicians, ensuring you are experiencing the latest thinking in mental health across the field and across all ages.

Our dual focus on research and practice will help you succeed in your career whether you wish to study mental health further in a PhD or train to become a clinical practitioner.