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Our world-class, research-led learning experience attracts the very best students from around the world who enjoy unrivalled learning opportunities – supported by strong partnerships with the NHS. Each year we are joined by hundreds of students from around the world, who join a thriving community of scholars, looking to take the next step in their career.

Our students benefit from:

• Access to a hugely diverse clinical population and vast data sets.
• Outstanding career, networking and mentoring opportunities, learning from some of the world’s leading academics in the field.
• Superb range of clinical placements through our partnership with the South London & Maudsley NHS Trust, which offers the widest range of mental health services in the UK.
• World-class research and study facilities. 

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Cognitive behavioural therapies (adult iapt) pg dip.

This course provides training to equip you with the necessary skills to become an independent CBT practitioner in accordance with the BABCP guidelines.

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Cognitive Behavioural Therapies for Psychosis PG Dip

This course equips students with a critical understanding of psychological models of psychosis and the skills to deliver cognitive behavioural interventions.

Health Psychology MSc

This BPS-accredited course is specifically designed for graduate psychologists who wish to go on to becoming registered Health Psychologists with the HCPC .

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Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN), IoPPN, 16 De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AB

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Doctorate in Clinical Psychology DClinPsy

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DClinPsych - Doctor of Clinical Psychology

Subject areas

Clinical Psychology

Course type

Welcome to the UK’s oldest Clinical Psychology training programme. The DClinPsy programme at King’s College London trains clinical psychologists who embody the scientist-practitioner ideal, and will progress to become leaders in the NHS. The programme is underpinned by a biopsychosocial framework and emphasises the integration of theory, research and practice in all aspects of training. The programme takes cognitive-behavioural therapy as its main therapeutic modality, and has particular strengths in family therapy, mindfulness-based interventions, neuropsychology and clinical health psychology. The Doctorate is Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC) approved and accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS).

Description:

The three-year, full-time Doctorate in Clinical Psychology is based within the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN). Trainees spend three days a week on supervised clinical practice placements and two days a week are dedicated to teaching, study and research.

Aims & Philosophy

To benefit service users, carers and wider society by training clinical psychologists who:

• are skilled in evidence-based psychological assessment and intervention
• produce applied research of the highest quality and impact
• progress to become leaders within the NHS, clinical academia and beyond

The training programme values the reflective scientist-practitioner model as a basis for clinical psychology. There is a strong emphasis on integration of theory, research and practice in all aspects of the programme.

The biopsychosocial framework underpinning the Programme identifies biological, psychological and social factors that contribute to the development and maintenance of psychological difficulties and mental disorders across the lifespan. Our understanding of the framework is that it is linked to a continuum view of psychological difficulty. Thus, the programme seeks to understand these difficulties from an assumption of commonality of experience and human potential to support wellness and resilience.

The programme takes cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) as its main therapeutic modality, reflecting the world-leading research expertise within the IoPPN and its evidence base. Alongside CBT, there are also particular strengths in family therapy, neuropsychology, mindfulness and health psychology.

A further strength is the cohesive and comprehensive range of local and national specialist placement opportunities across three world-renowned NHS Trusts: South London and Maudsley, King’s College Hospital and Guy’s & St Thomas’ – known collectively as King’s Health Partners.

A final advantage is the vibrant and diverse communities within South East London; the programme values and positively promotes equality and diversity.

UK fees Course fees for UK students

Home applicants who meet the entry requirements criteria are eligible for an NHS funded place and are not required to pay tuition fees.

International fees Course fees for EU and international students

For this course (per year)

A minimum 2.1 undergraduate degree in Psychology, or 2.1 or above in a different subject area alongside a BPS accredited conversion course which grants GBC (for more info see below). Candidates without the required minimum degree class must provide evidence of a qualification at Doctoral level, such as a PhD. Although a postgraduate qualification, i.e. an MSc, is not mandatory, applications are enhanced by evidence of postgraduate study.

Health Psychology MSc

Bristol, university of the west of england, health psychology dhealthpsy, clinical associate in psychology apprenticeship - level 7 msc, nottingham trent university, clinical health psychology and wellbeing msc, middlesex university, msc health psychology, university of chichester.