Course summary

Psychology with Clinical Psychology with a Year in Professional Practice How do we investigate, assess and treat mental and physical wellbeing? Our Psychology with Clinical Psychology degree offers you broad training in psychology along with the exploration of the models currently used in clinical research and practice. Our British Psychological Society (BPS) accredited degree enables you to confront the issues that humans face with psychology's scientific principles. From brain injury to prejudice reduction, child development to offending behaviour and rehabilitation. We provide you with the tools to develop interventions for hospitals, schools and businesses, making a difference to society through innovations in policy and research. This is a 4-year course where you spend a year in practice between your second and final years. You undertake project work with professional applied psychologists in organisations such as the NHS, the Prison Service or a research establishment. Your future Our graduates currently have excellent graduate employment prospects, working in clinical, forensic and occupational psychology or in allied fields related to therapy, teaching, or social work. Many work in communication-focused roles in marketing, public relations and publishing. Jobs our students have gone on to work after a clinical degree at Kent:

• Assistant Psychologist - Great Ormond Street Hospital

• Crisis recovery worker - Mental Health Matters

• Clinical Psychologist - Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

• Assistant Psychologist - NHS

• Assistant Psychologist - Kent and Medway NHS Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT)

• Clinical Psychologist - NHS Sussex Partnership Trust