Psychology with Counselling, BSc (Hons)

This course offers a comprehensive study of psychology combined with counselling, ideal for students seeking broad expertise and specialized training in these dynamic fields. It provides a solid foundation in core areas of psychology and counselling across all years, with opportunities in the final year to select modules aligned with staff research expertise. Designed for aspiring professional psychologists or counsellors, it requires further training for practice and is not a counsellor practitioner program. Students are encouraged to discuss readiness with course staff.Taught by over 150 expert psychologists in one of the UK's largest departments, the program includes access to innovative laboratories and is accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS), granting eligibility for Graduate Basis for Chartered Membership with a 2:2 or higher. Highlights include work placements, optional modules, international opportunities, and emphasis on employability through skills like analysis and communication. Assessment involves coursework, exams, presentations, and tests. The three- or four-year options include placements or study abroad.

In the first two years of your degree, you'll complete an introduction to psychology and counselling with core modules in biological, social, developmental and cognitive psychology, counselling techniques and tools, and you'll undertake training in research methods and statistics. In your final year, you'll sit a further core module in psychology and counselling, and can select specialist final year modules linked to the areas of staff research expertise within Psychology. In your final year you'll also complete a research project in psychology, focused on a topic of your choosing under the supervision of a research-active member of staff. Year One Core modules are: Introduction to Psychology, Research Methods (One), Statistics (One), Approaches to Counselling, Counselling Toolbox, and Counselling in Context. Year Two core modules are: Research Methods and Statistics (Two), Cognitive and Biological Psychology, Social and Developmental Psychology, Analytical Thinking in Counselling, and Personal and Professional Development in Counselling and Interpersonal Skills. Year Three core modules are: Psychology Research Project, Client Issues in Counselling, and Advanced Psychology. You also have the choice of optional modules where you will pick two optional modules one from Set One and one from Set Two. Set One modules include: Biological Perspectives on Psychiatric Disorders Community, Health and Applied Social Psychology, Evolutionary Psychology, Infant Development, Person Perception, Psychology, Educational Needs and Inclusion, Psychology of the Paranormal, Psychology of the Family Statistics III: Advanced Statistics for Research, The Psychology of Sleep, The Psychology of Aging and Neurodegenerative disease, Black and Cultural Psychology. Set Two modules include: Addictive Behaviours, Clinical Neuropsychology Language and Literacy, Development in Children, Psychology of Trauma, Psychopathology and Offending Behaviour, Social Development in Children and Adolescents, The Psychology of Sex Offending, The Science of False Memory.