Health Psychology: University of the West of England

Introduction

The Professional Doctorate in Health Psychology is designed to provide a doctoral level education and professional qualification.

The course provides the British Psychological Society (BPS) Stage 2 training in Health Psychology, and eligibility for Practitioner Health Psychology status. The accreditation team from the BPS commended the team delivering the Professional Doctorate Health Psychology on the research profile of the staff, the approachability/cohesiveness of the staff group, the cohesiveness of the trainee group, the contribution of the trainees to the ongoing development of the course, and the trainee satisfaction with the course.

Content

During each year, you will attend UWE for a number of professional doctoral schools (PDSs), each is normally a full day, approximately fortnightly during academic semester time. Throughout the year, you maintain monthly contact with your supervisor. Each year ends with a review day.

The PDSs are organised around five areas of professional development: research (including systematic reviewing and an independent supervised project), teaching and training, consultancy, professional skills and a fifth area which consists of two from a possible five further developments of the main areas. This structure coincides with the requirements of the Stage 2 qualification for Practitioner Health Psychologist status.

Entry requirements

Students normally have

• Graduate basis for registration with the British Psychological Society
• Upper second class or first class degree
• MSc Health Psychology accredited by the British Psychological Society as providing Stage 1 of the Practitioner Health Psychologist qualification.

Admissions and International Recruitment deals with enquiries and applications for all full-time undergraduate programmes. Contact by

• telephone: +44 (0)117 32 83333
• fax: +44 (0)117 32 82810
• e-mail: admissions@uwe.ac.uk
• letter: Admissions and International Recruitment, University of the West of England, Frenchay Campus, Bristol BS16 1QY, UK