Study Details: MSc One year full-time, two years part-time
Whether you're an aspiring clinical psychologist, researcher, or intellectually curious, enhance your understanding of the key clinical and professional knowledge and skills that lie at the heart of clinical psychology.
By studying the MSc Clinical Psychology at Kent, you will enhance your knowledge and critical understanding of mental health, explore psychological assessment, formulation, and intervention, and create your own clinical research to establish yourself in the field.
You'll learn from clinical experts with real-world experience, embracing the scientist-practitioner model. The course is co-designed by academics, professional clinical psychologists, students, and those with lived experience, ensuring you explore up-to-date developments that are relevant to real world practice.
Our course is designed to be engaging and experiential, and you'll have access to a signposting database to help you gain clinical experience. You will gain a deep understanding of the psychological models of clinical disorders, develop therapeutic skills, and build your confidence in working with individuals facing mental health challenges.
Finally, through a clinically relevant research project, you'll prepare for a future PhD or clinical psychology doctorate, which you’ll need to launch a career as a qualified clinical psychologist in the UK.
1.Degree requirement
a. GBC status
You must hold, or have applied for Graduate Basis for Chartered Membership with the British Psychological Society (BPS). Please note that Graduate Membership of the BPS is not accepted.
You will normally have GBC status if you hold a Psychology honours degree accredited by the BPS. Otherwise, you can apply to have your existing degree assessed by the BPS, or take a conversion course. If you are not sure whether you hold GBC status, please contact the BPS directly.
b. Adequate level of academic achievement
A first or second class honours degree in a relevant subject or equivalent.
All applications are considered on an individual basis and additional qualifications, professional qualifications and relevant experience may also be taken into account when considering applications.
An assessed piece of coursework must also be submitted as part of the application for review by the programme director. This piece of work should include the use of statistical analysis (a practical report or dissertation).
c. Statistics and research methods training in the social sciences
This programme includes a one-year statistics sequence which you must normally pass in order to receive your award. The teaching assumes that you are familiar with the following topics:
1. Means and standard deviations
2. Distributions, hypothesis testing and statistical significance
3. t-tests
4. Correlation coefficients
5. Variables and measurement
Therefore, your existing degree transcript should note that you have taken and passed a minimum of one term each in statistics and social science research methods courses (or two terms of a joint statistics and research methods course). A British Psychological Society-accredited degree will likely meet this requirement. Applicants with other degrees may be asked to provide additional evidence of training in statistics.
All applicants are considered on an individual basis and additional qualifications, professional qualifications and relevant experience may also be taken into account when considering applications.
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Our postgraduate students commonly go into the fields of health, teaching or further education. For instance, many of our graduates take up roles as assistant psychologists in the NHS with a view to becoming a professional clinical or forensic psychologist. Upon completing our Master’s courses, graduates have also pursued doctoral study and academic careers at higher education institutions, so if you want to practice as a clinical psychologist in the UK, this MSc programme is a great first step before studying for your doctorate and starting professional practice.
The programmes we offer help you to develop general critical, analytic and problem-solving skills that can be applied in a wide range of settings.
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