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Mental Health: Cultural Psychology and Psychiatry Online MSc

Mental Health: Cultural Psychology and Psychiatry Online MSc

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Distance without attendance | Queen Mary University of London | 1 year | 16-SEP-24

Study mode

Distance without attendance

Duration

1 year

Start date

16-SEP-24

Key information
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Qualification type

MSc - Master of Science

Subject areas

Psychiatry Psychology (General) Cultural Studies People With Mental Health Problems: Social Work Psychology Specialisations

Course type

Taught

Course Summary

This MSc will give you a sophisticated understanding of the impact of socio-cultural factors in mental health, mental illness and mental health care, with a specific focus on the role of culture in the diagnosis of mental illness and in the delivery of different psychological and psychiatric therapeutic approaches. You’ll understand the cultural contexts of mental health problems, learn about the innovative ways care is delivered cross-culturally and gain experience of working with people from diverse cultural backgrounds.

  • Develop a critical insight into the role of culture in mental health as well as psychological and psychiatric practice, enhancing both your clinical and research skills
  • Gain a global perspective on the ethical and methodological challenges of mental health research and practice in various settings worldwide, in multicultural societies and with diverse populations enabling you to work with culturally diverse population
  • Take a supervised placement in a clinical setting or mental health organisation.
  • Gain a comprehensive training in research methods and writing
  • Learn from leading experts in the field

What you'll study

This programme is designed to improve your understanding of the impact of socio-cultural factors on mental health, mental illness and mental health care disciplines and delivery. It will enable you to work in a research or mental health care role in a multicultural setting both here in the UK and abroad as well as put you in a position to pursue further training to qualify as a therapist, social worker or clinical psychologist.

You will examine how cultural factors such as belief systems, values, ethnicity, practices and traditions can affect an individual’s mental health risk – and their resilience. You’ll also look at how migration, race and other cultural phenomena intersect to create mental health challenges and how these can be addressed in direct clinical practice and mental health care systems through the implementation of innovative therapies as well as the adaptation of current psychological approaches and care pathways.

In addition, you’ll develop your research skills and complete a research project.

Please note this programme does not equip you to be registered as a psychotherapist in the UK, for which you must pursue additional advanced training.

Mental Health: Cultural Psychology and Psychiatry is also available to study to PgDip or PgCert level.

Structure

  • Six compulsory modules
  • 10,000-15,000-word dissertation

Career paths

This programme is ideal if you want to:

  • pursue a career in psychology or psychiatry
  • work in an international setting or pursue research in cultural and global issues in mental health care.

The course has allowed students who were already practicing clinicians to develop their own practice with culturally diverse populations and to implement cultural competency programmes in their services.

Students who have completed this course have gone on to:

  • pursue research doctorates in clinical psychology
  • take on assistant psychologist roles within the NHS and third sector
  • gain research assistant roles.

This programme doesn’t equip you to be registered as a psychotherapist in the UK: you’ll need additional advanced training for that. However, this course does prepare you for such training.

Modules

This module will provide a critical understanding of the intersection between culture and mental health within a global context. Students will be introduced to social science theories from disaplines such as anthropology and sociology which have been used to inform psychological and psychiatric understandings of mental illness and its treatment. Topics discussed will include the links between culture and mental processes, variations in the manifestation and interpretation of mental illness across cultures, challenges of assessment and treatment of mental illness within multicultural contexts and the impact of intersecting inequalities on the mental health of minority populations . Students will be encouraged to reflect on the impact of culture on both mental disorder and mental healthcare treatment at both local and global levels.

Tuition fees

UK fees
Course fees for UK students

For this course (per year)

£11,450

International fees
Course fees for EU and international students

For this course (per year)

£24,000

Entry requirements

A 2:2 or above at undergraduate level in Psychology, Medicine or a related discipline.

University information

Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) is an internationally regarded public research institution based in London. It has a long history, dating back over 230 years, and is a member of the prestigious Russell Group of universities. Queen Mary has five campuses in the city of London and an international network of satellite campuses in China, Malta, Paris and Singapore. There is a population of around 16,000 students at the London campuses and...more