Addiction and Mental Health MSc

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Why study this course?

Gain the tools needed to understand the intersections between addictive behaviours and mental health, in relation to life. Learn how mental health issues and addictive behaviours can be understood and are culturally framed.

This master’s degree will allow you to pursue or advance a career in a range of fields including addiction and substance use, mental health and medical disciplines. Our multi-disciplinary approach will give you a rounded, holistic understanding of the complexities of addiction within a mental health context.

More about this course

On this Addiction and Mental Health MSc you’ll develop a broad scientific knowledge base, learning how to critically approach addictive behaviours, mental health conditions and understand how the two interact.

At the core of this course are theoretical models and critical approaches around addictive behaviours and mental health conditions. Knowing how to intervene in an addiction and mental health context is key and complex. This master’s course allows you to build your understanding of intervention and learn about neuroscience and pharmacotherapy in relation to addiction.

In order to develop a broad knowledge base, we’ll guide you through the legal framework, relevant policies and ethical arguments to give you a complete, holistic understanding from a societal perspective. By engaging with evidence, you’ll learn to determine for yourself what counts as robust and forward-thinking in the field.

We focus on your career development and giving you the knowledge and skills to work in areas across the addiction sector. You'll be taught by practitioners and researchers in the addiction and mental health fields about the assessment, management and treatment of addiction.

We’ll also show you how to become a member of the

  • Society for the Study of Addiction
  • (SSA) so that you can become an active participant in the creation of knowledge.

    Assessment

    The course is assessed through a variety of methods that give you the opportunity to demonstrate your academic knowledge and the career skills you’ll have acquired.

    Assessment methods include essays, critical reviews, case studies and oral presentations. Your research methods studies will progressively build your understanding of how to present research findings in reports where you'll write-up qualitative and quantitative research. You’ll have the opportunity to choose your own specialist area of study when it comes to your research project (ie dissertation). All assessment is supported with a framework of formative assessment opportunities and academic support.

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    School of Social Sciences and Professions

    Öğrenim seçenekleri

    Full Time (1 yıl)

    Okul ücreti
    £18,150.00 (TRY 735,056) Yıllık
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    Başlangıç tarihi

    23 Eylül 2024

    Yer

    London Metropolitan University

    Admissions Office,

    166-220 Holloway Road,

    City of London,

    N7 8DB, England

    Giriş koşulları

    Uluslararası öğrenciler için

    You will be required to have: a minimum of a lower second-class (2.2) honours degree in social sciences, health, education or human sciences. Graduates from other disciplines who have extensive relevant work experience will be considered on an individual basis. Students can be accepted on the basis of relevant education and experience. Accredited prior learning can also be accepted for modules in a relevant subject. Academic IELTS - Overall score required: 6.0; Component scores required: Listening: 5.5, Reading: 5.5, Writing: 5.5, Speaking: 5.5. TOEFL iBT - Overall score required: 72; Component scores required: Listening: 17, Reading: 18, Writing: 17, Speaking: 20.

    Seçtiğiniz bölüme bağlı olarak farklı IELTS koşulları olabilir.

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