Mental Health & Wellbeing (MA or PG Certificate)

Overview

This programme will develop the skills, knowledge and insight of those who support people with problems related to mental health. The focus is particularly on promoting health and inclusion, and on social factors affecting wellbeing.

Students will engage critically with concepts of health and illness in relation to mental health, and examine both mental health promotion and mental illness prevention, as well as the concept of wellbeing. For this students will engage with the service user perspective, the recovery model and the importance of social participation and community development in mental health. They will understand and analyse the epidemiological evidence base, and explore theory, methods, ethics, politics and economic considerations. Their analysis of the evidence to support specific types of intervention to enhance wellbeing and insight into what public mental health strategies may help, will be developed in parallel with their insights, empathy and skills in communication through an introduction to brief therapies. These skills and insights will be applied to the students own working context.

Faculty of Life Sciences

Applying and entry

PLEASE NOTE There is no official closing date for this course, but you are advised to apply as early as possible as we will only consider your application if there are places available on the course.

Tel: 020 7133 4202
Email: admissions@londonmet.ac.uk

The normal entry requirement is a good Honours degree or equivalent in a relevant academic subject (eg a social science) or professional programme. However, applicants with other qualifications but substantial relevant work experience may be considered and are encouraged to apply. Applicants for whom English is not their first language must demonstrate sufficient proficiency in both written and spoken English. The minimum requirement is one of the following: IELTS 6 or above; TOEFL (old examination); 580 minimum; TOEFL (new examination) 237 minimum.

Course contents

For the MA, the course consists of: four core and two optional modules; or one designate and one elective; plus a 12,000 - 15,000-word dissertation. For the Postgraduate Certificate in Mental Health Practice, the course consists of: Brief Therapies in Mental Health and two designates.

• Social Epidemiology
• Mental Health Promotion
• Social Research: Principles and Practice
• Brief Interventions in Mental Health

• Supporting People into Employment/IPS
• Advice, Empowerment and Customer Care
• Care Planning and Implementation
• Mental Health Promotion
• Mental Health Practice (work-based project)
• Mental Health in the Community
• Race, Equality and Cultural Capability
• Race, Culture and Well-being
  
• Sexual Violence: Causes, Consequences and Interventions
• Child and Adolescent Mental Health: Evidence-Based Intervention

Read more details about the modules

Possible Interim Awards
Postgraduate Certificate in Mental Health and Wellbeing; Postgraduate Diploma in Mental Health and Wellbeing; Postgraduate Certificate in Mental Health Practice

Assessment
Includes seminar papers and presentations, filmed role-play, and coursework reports, essays, case studies, examination and a dissertation.

Careers

This programme will support those working in primary care, or toward recovery and wellbeing in secondary care services, or working in non-health related services such as refuges, supported housing, voluntary sector support services, family support, employment support, community groups. The designates have a strongly applied focus, and can be combined with a work based practice module in the post-graduate certificate to enable people looking for a programme of in service professional development to tailor a programme to meet their particular needs. This includes those in the many new posts envisaged in the NHS plan such as primary care graduate mental health workers.