BSc Mental Health & Wellbeing Top Up

What you’ll study

5 modules

1. Modules

   120 credits

   • Psychology of Mental Health and Wellbeing20 credits

     The Role of Psychology in the Mental Health System in depth. This will help students understand psychological aspects of mental health such as moods, emotions, feelings, attitudes, and behaviour. It will also offer an opportunity for them to understand the wide range of assessment, especially comprehensive psychological assessments that help identify and diagnose various mental health issues and illnesses and treatment options such as evidenced-based psychotherapies such as Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to provide ways to help people face fears, deal with anxiety, or add structure to their day if they are working to address depression or manage negative and challenging thoughts. This would help them understand support available to those struggling with mental health issues in order to improve an individuals’ quality of life in times of crisis, to prevent relapse, address issues with readmission rates, and maintaining care.
   • Contemporary Issues in Mental Health20 credits

     This module is specifically designed to provide with critical awareness of contemporary issues debated in the field of mental health. These include mental health practice and policy, issues of peer support and service user involvement, physical health care in mental health practice, gender and mental health, ethnicity and mental health, and patient safety.
   • Integrated Approaches to Dual Diagnosis20 credits

     When dealing with mental health disorders, we may encounter patients or service users diagnosed with concurrent disorders: these are the co-occurrence of mental health issues and substance use disorders. It is important that the students gain an understanding to identify this and suggest further care as needed using a person-centred approach. In this module, students will learn about commonly co-occurring conditions such as depression and alcohol abuse, signs and symptoms of illnesses, biological theories such as addiction pathways that help to address any underlying or resulting concurrent issues, the DSM criteria for diagnosis, assessment methods and management options available using an integrated approach i.e. medical, psychological and other non-medical interventions that helps to meet an individual’s needs based on the biopsychosocial and spiritual model.
   • Mental Health in Ageing Population20 credits

     The UK population is ageing rapidly, with the number of people aged 65 and over growing by nearly half in the past 30 years. Research shows that older people are more vulnerable to mental health problems, especially in times like this because of the pandemic. In this module, students will gain knowledge and understanding about common mental health conditions in older adults such as dementia and depression, the biological aspects of ageing and the anatomical and physiological changes occurring to the body, especially the nervous system, various assessment methods, recognising sign and symptoms for early diagnosis, treatment, and care provision in different settings such as home vs residential care homes, and the support available for this population.
   • Individual Research40 credits

     The students will be given an opportunity to conduct a research study in a topic they are interested in or based on their career aims or current work they do. They will be writing a dissertation of 10,000 words as a part of this module.

Occasional changes to modules and course content may take place. Students will be notified when applicable.

Entry requirements