
MSc Clinical Psychology
Canterbury, United Kingdom
DURATION
1 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
Request application deadline
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2025
TUITION FEES
EUR 20,000
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Introduction
Whether you're an aspiring clinical psychologist, researcher, or intellectually curious, enhance your understanding of the key clinical and professional knowledge and skills that lie at the heart of clinical psychology.
Enhance your knowledge and critical understanding of how we view mental health, delve into the processes involved in psychological assessment, formulation and intervention, and carve out your place in the field by creating your clinical research.
Reasons to study MSc Clinical Psychology at Kent
- Clinical teaching from academics with relevant clinical experience and qualifications, demonstrating the scientist-practitioner model of working.
- Your course is co-produced and designed by academics, professional clinical psychologists, students themselves and those with lived experience of receiving Clinical Psychologist help and support, matching the aspirations for course design articulated by the University’s 2025 vision.
- Teaching is explicitly designed to be varied, and engaging and include experiential learning.
- We can support you in gaining clinical experience through our signposting database.
- The opportunity to study in a School with high-quality teaching, an active and international research profile, and excellent teaching and research facilities.
- Introduction to Ethics and Ethical Theories Over 80% of our Psychology research was classified as ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’ for environment and publications in Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021
- Join a supportive and welcoming postgraduate community, with dedicated student and social space within the school.
Admissions
Scholarships and Funding
Scholarship value
The award covers tuition fees, return airfares and living costs for a one-year taught Master's programme.
Deadline
Deadline for Commonwealth application: - 12 December 2024.
Hold an unconditional offer (with the only outstanding condition, international fee deposit) of a programme of study from the University of Kent - 31 January 2025
Criteria
To be eligible to apply for this scholarship, candidates must:
- Hold an undergraduate degree at UK first-class level equivalent.
- Be a citizen of or have been granted refugee status by one of the eligible Commonwealth countries listed or be a British Protected Person.
- Be a permanent resident in one of the eligible Commonwealth countries listed above.
- To be committed to the University of Kent, you can apply for more than one course and/or to more than one University, but you may only accept one offer of a Shared Scholarship.
- Not have studied or worked for one (academic) year or more in a high-income country.
- Be unable to afford to study in the UK without this scholarship.
- Return to their home country as soon as their period of study is complete. In some circumstances, a student may be permitted to remain in the UK if seeing doctoral study and satisfy certain strict conditions.
- Hold an offer by the deadline for a full-time postgraduate taught degree on one of the eligible courses at the University of Kent:
- MSc Artificial Intelligence
- MSc Infectious Diseases
- MSc Cyber Security
- MA International Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
- MSc Applied Actuarial Science
- MSc Conservation Science
- MA English and American Literature
Further details
Commonwealth Shared Scholarships, set up by DFID in 1986, represent a unique partnership between the United Kingdom government and UK Universities.
Funded by the UK Department of International Development (DFID), Commonwealth Shared Scholarships enable talented and motivated individuals to gain the knowledge and skills required for sustainable development. They are aimed at those who could not otherwise afford to study in the UK.
These scholarships are offered under six themes:
- Science and technology for development
- Strengthening health systems and capacity
- Promoting global prosperity
- Strengthening global peace, security and governance
- Strengthening resilience and response to crises - Access, inclusion and opportunity.
How to apply
To be considered for the Commonwealth Shared Scholarship you must:
- Make a formal application for a postgraduate degree at the University of Kent commencing September 2025/26. This can be done online here.
- Complete the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission (CSC) online application process. For information on how to do that and full details of the application process please go directly to the Commonwealth Scholarships webpages.
- Applications will be considered based on Academic Excellence and a completed application.
- The Commonwealth will accept applications until 12th December 2024 (closing at 16:00 GMT).
Curriculum
Stage 1
- Theoretical Approaches to Clinical Practice
- Core Competencies in Clinical Psychology
- Statistics and Methodology
- Advanced Research Project: Proposal Development
- Advanced Research Project: Proposal Development
Stage 2
- Advanced Research Project in Psychology
Program Outcome
Programme aims
This programme aims to:
- Foster your intellectual development by providing you with specialised knowledge of a range of theoretical approaches to clinical psychology and statistical and methodological expertise so that you should be well equipped to make your original contribution to psychological knowledge
- provide teaching that is informed by current research and scholarship and that requires you to engage with aspects of work at the frontiers of knowledge
- help you to develop research skills and transferable skills in preparation for entering academic or other careers as psychologists
- satisfy the academic requirements of the knowledge base specified by the British Psychological Society
- enable you to manage your learning and to carry out independent research
- develop a critical awareness and appraisal of the different approaches to Clinical Psychology and related disciplines, and learn a range of different theoretical and methodological approaches.
- to enhance skills and knowledge aligned with the core competencies that Clinical Psychology professions embody, to help advance students to the next stages of the career journey (e.g., apply for Assistant Psychologist roles, Research Assistant roles and following experience the DClinPsy. itself)
Learning outcomes
Knowledge and understanding
You will gain knowledge and understanding of:
- a range of general, historical, theoretical and philosophical issues underlying the disciplines of clinical psychology
- the major analytic techniques and research methodologies employed by clinical psychologists
- specialist knowledge and systematic understanding of the key issues in clinical psychology.
Intellectual skills
You develop intellectual skills in:
- The ability to review the evidence base and relate it to practice when considering and deciding upon assessment, formulation and intervention approaches.
- the ability to produce sustained work
- discussion skills
- written analysis and interpretation of relevant material
- the ability to critically appraise Clinical Psychology approaches to the nature of mind, body and behaviour
- the ability to engage in reflective, creative and critical thinking in the area of Clinical Psychology
- the ability to analyse and assess clinically relevant data.
Subject-specific skills
You gain subject-specific skills in:
- how to identify, locate and use material available in the library and online resources
- use the major analytic techniques employed by psychologists
- how to evaluate and select appropriate methods for researching questions in clinical psychology
- how to work appropriately and compassionately with clients who present with a variety of mental health difficulties
Transferable skills
You will gain the following transferable skills:
- Numeracy: the ability to analyse data and make sense of statistical materials, integrate numerical and non-numerical information, understand the limits and potentialities of arguments based on quantitative information
- communication: the ability to organise information clearly, write coherently and concisely about your chosen research area and other areas of clinical psychology, and present the work to a variety of audiences
- working with others: the ability to review the work of others, work co-operatively in groups, understand ethical principles and the procedures for gaining ethics approval for research
- improving your learning: the ability to explore your strengths and weaknesses, develop the skills of time management, review the student-staff relationship, develop specialist learning skills, develop autonomy in learning
- information technology: use computers for data analysis, word processing, graphical display of data for analysis and presentation, bibliographical research, documentation and email
- problem-solving: the ability to identify and define problems, explore alternative solutions and discriminate between them
- teaching and learning: we will provide lecture workshops on computing, drop-in computing surgeries, training in making oral presentations of research material, lecture seminars on writing critical reviews of literature, carrying out literature searches, lecture workshops on career development, media training and training in dissemination of research findings.
- You will also sit computing tests and unseen examinations and write coursework essays.
Program Tuition Fee
Career Opportunities
Our postgraduate students commonly go into the fields of health, teaching or further education. For instance, many of our graduates take up roles as assistant psychologists in the NHS to become a professional clinical or forensic psychologist. Upon completing our Master’s courses, graduates have also pursued doctoral study and academic careers at higher education institutions, so if you want to practice as a clinical psychologist in the UK, this MSc programme is a great first step before studying for your doctorate and starting professional practice.
The programmes we offer help you to develop general critical, analytic and problem-solving skills that can be applied in a wide range of settings.
Program delivery
Teaching and assessment
The programme includes lectures, workshops and seminar-based teaching, as well as an individually supervised empirical research project.
Advanced Statistics and Methodology is assessed by examination. All other taught modules are assessed by written work and presentations. Research is assessed by two articles: one empirical paper and one review article on your chosen topic.
Program Admission Requirements
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