Mental Health Studies MSc/PgDip / Healthcare Studies PGCert

Overview

We aim to model a wide range of teaching strategies and approaches on the course which you can adapt to your own setting.

Why choose Mental Health Studies MSc/PGDip /Healthcare Studies PGCert at Middlesex?

This unique course is designed for you if you work in mental health, health or social care services. It will build on you current knowledge and experience and help you develop mental health-related skills and knowledge. This course will help you to contribute to the enhancement of professional mental health practice, research and service development.

You'll have the opportunity to study with others from a wide range of mental health, health and social care settings and backgrounds. We hope that the diversity of this environment stimulates your learning and leads to improved practice and service development.

This MSc will allow you to plan your own individual study pathway to meet your personal, professional, academic and service needs. Furthermore, the optional modules can be taken at your own pace, taking into account issues such as your location and work-life balance. As such, most modules are taught online or via distance learning, with some on-campus session for specialised skills.

The best way to study this course is over two years. This means you can continue working in clinical practice and use that practice to help you complete your assignments for your chosen modules.

Although we have an October start, depending on which modules you choose, your class dates may be in January. We can discuss this with you when you start the course and choose the modules you want to undertake.

Students need to have: a good honours degree (2:2 or above); a minimum of two years experience in the mental health field, providing they have a professional qualification in a field of mental health practice, eg. medicine, mental health nursing, social work or an allied discipline; Exceptionally, students who do not have a degree but who can provide evidence of their ability to study at Masters level, and have three years experience of working in the mental health field (voluntary or paid) may be considered.