Whether you're an aspiring clinical psychologist, researcher, or intellectually curious, enhance your understanding of the key clinical and professional knowledge and skills that lie at the heart of clinical psychology.

Overview

By studying the MSc Clinical Psychology at Kent, you will enhance your knowledge and critical understanding of mental health, explore psychological assessment, formulation, and intervention, and create your own clinical research to establish yourself in the field.

You'll learn from clinical experts with real-world experience, embracing the scientist-practitioner model. The course is co-designed by academics, professional clinical psychologists, students, and those with lived experience, ensuring you explore up-to-date developments that are relevant to real world practice.

Our course is designed to be engaging and experiential, and you'll have access to a signposting database to help you gain clinical experience. You will gain a deep understanding of the psychological models of clinical disorders, develop therapeutic skills, and build your confidence in working with individuals facing mental health challenges.

Finally, through a clinically relevant research project, you'll prepare for a future PhD or clinical psychology doctorate, which youll need to launch a career as a qualified clinical psychologist in the UK.

Your future

Our postgraduate students commonly go into the fields of health, teaching or further education. For instance, many of our graduates take up roles as assistant psychologists in the NHS with a view to becoming a professional clinical or forensic psychologist. Upon completing our Masters courses, graduates have also pursued doctoral study and academic careers at higher education institutions, so if you want to practice as a clinical psychologist in the UK, this MSc programme is a great first step before studying for your doctorate and starting professional practice.

The programmes we offer help you to develop general critical, analytic and problem-solving skills that can be applied in a wide range of settings.

Professional recognition

All of our taught Masters (MSc) programmes have been recognised by the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) as meeting the nationally recognised criteria for preparation training for PhD research.