Applied Clinical Psychology

Throughout this Applied Clinical Psychology degree offered at University of Bath , you’ll follow a scientist-practitioner model. This means that your clinical practice will be grounded in research and implemented using scientific methods.

This approach will deepen your knowledge of psychological models, scientific principles, and contemporary research in clinical psychology, and allow you to consider its translation and application to real-world problems.

Graduate prospects

Studying this course will set you up with the knowledge and professional skills required to move into a range of health service and research careers. It is particularly good preparation for work as an Assistant Psychologist, and a foundation for further postgraduate training or research in clinical psychology.

Recent graduates of this course have gone on to work in a wide variety of roles, including:

• Assistant Psychologist

• Trainee Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner

• Mental Health Support Worker

• Special Educational Needs Teaching Assistant

• Research Assistant

At organisations, such as:

• Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership Foundation NHS Trust

• University of the West of England

• Oxfordshire Mind

• Tees, Esk, Wear and Valleys NHS Trust

• Elysium Healthcare

Many graduates have also gone on to become PhD students or to study the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (DClinPsy) at different universities, including the University of Bath.

This course is not professionally accredited and will not provide you with a licence to practise.

• Professional skills development

• Advanced research methods for applied psychology

• Applied clinical psychology dissertation

• Fundamentals of clinical and health psychology