MSc Health Psychology

The Health Psychology MSc at Aston University is a full-time, on-campus programme designed for students seeking to understand how psychology can be applied to health. The course allows students to explore the psychological processes that influence health and illness. The programme ensures students understand, assess and then theoretically and empirically apply health psychology.Course Content: The programme covers a broad range of topics related to health psychology, including health, illness and disease; lifespan, gender and culture; health-related behaviour, and psychosocial factors. It further includes areas like health care delivery, patients and practitioners; stress, pain and chronic illness; fundamental research methods and statistics; and advanced research methods and professional issues.Key Modules: The MSc Health Psychology comprises several key modules, including: "Health Behaviour and Behaviour Change," "Understanding, Predicting and Reducing Non-Communicable Disease," "Psychology and Healthcare," "Chronic Illness, Stress and Pain," and "Research Methods and Health Professional Issues".Accreditations: This programme is fully accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS), conferring eligibility for Graduate Basis for Chartered Membership, provided the student has achieved an overall mark of 50%.Future Careers: Graduates from the Health Psychology MSc go on to work in a wide range of settings, including the NHS (hospitals, primary care settings, health promotion, public health), universities, government, commercial sectors, and within the voluntary sector. Some students also choose to further their studies by entering PhD programmes.For more information on this course, please visit the official course page.