Understanding Clinical Psychology (C8524)

15 credits, Level 6

Autumn teaching

Mental health influences our everyday behaviour and interactions with others.

On this module, you’ll explore mental health issues and how disorders impact people throughout their lives. You’ll learn how psychologists make diagnoses and use theory to guide treatment.

Topics include:

• anxiety
• depression
• dementia
• modern evidence-based treatments, such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT).

 

Contact hours and workload

This module is approximately 150 hours of work. This breaks down into about 22 hours of contact time and about 128 hours of independent study. The University may make minor variations to the contact hours for operational reasons, including timetabling requirements.

We regularly review our modules to incorporate student feedback, staff expertise, as well as the latest research and teaching methodology. We’re planning to run these modules in the academic year 2025/26. However, there may be changes to these modules in response to feedback, staff availability, student demand or updates to our curriculum.

We’ll make sure to let you know of any material changes to modules at the earliest opportunity.

Courses

This module is offered on the following courses:

• Criminology with Psychology BA
• Education with Psychology BA
• Marketing and Management with Psychology (with a professional placement year) BSc
• Marketing and Management with Psychology BSc
• Neuroscience with Psychology BSc