Mental Health Jobs Uk

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As a mental health nurse you are likely to be dealing with people of all ages and from a wide range of backgrounds. As your career develops you may choose to specialise in areas such as drugs and alcohol misuse or working with offenders. You could also become involved in education, research, or management roles.

The key challenge for you as a mental health nurse is to use your specialist skills, and personal strengths, to help people come to terms with their problems. The important factors in this therapeutic relationship are the ability to listen and draw information out, and then to help people find means of coping with their problems. Involving family, friends and other contacts will often be part of your role.

Another challenge is to identify if and when a person may be at risk of harming themselves or others; so one of the skills you'll learn is spotting the build-up of tension and ways of defusing it. Mental health nurses are also the most likely to be responsible for co-ordinating a patient's care in the community. You'll therefore find yourself liaising professionally with a wide range of other services including social workers, police, charities, local government and housing officials.

Clinical Psychology Clinical psychologists aim to reduce psychological distress and to enhance and promote psychological well-being. They work with people with mental or physical health problems - which might include anxiety and depression, serious and enduring mental illness, adjustment to physical illness, neurological disorders, addictive behaviours, childhood behaviour disorders, personal and family relationships. They work with people throughout the life-span and with those with learning disabilities.

Counselling Psychology
Counselling psychologists apply psychology to working collaboratively with people across a diverse range of human problems. These include helping people manage difficult life events such as bereavement, past and present relationships and working with mental health issues and disorders. Counselling psychologists accept subjective experience as valid for each person, explore underlying issues and use an active collaborative relationship to empower people to consider change. Counselling psychologists utilise a holistic stance, which involves examining the issues brought, within the wider context of what has given rise to them.

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Educational psychologists are concerned with children's learning and development, working primarily in schools with teachers and parents. They carry out a wide range of tasks with the aim of enhancing children's learning and enabling teachers to become more aware of the social factors affecting teaching and learning.

Forensic Psychology

Forensic psychology is one of the fastest growing areas of employment of psychology graduates. Academic institutions, Prison Services, the National Health Service, Probation Services and Social Services employ forensic psychologists. Forensic psychologists undertake their work in the criminal and civil justice field.

Health Psychology

Health psychology is a new and rapidly evolving area, and can be defined as the practice and application of psychological methods to the study of behaviour relevant to health, illness and health care. For example, the study of why and when people seek professional advice about their health, why they do or do not recommend preventative measures, how patients and health care professionals interact, how patients adapt to illness, and the links between perception, health behaviour and physical functioning.

Occupational Psychology

Occupational psychologists are concerned with the performance of people at work and in training, how organisations function and how individuals and small groups behave at work. The term 'organisation' is used to describe a group of people working together with a common purpose or goal.

Neuropsychology

Neurosience is one of the most rapidly advancing areas of research and from this follows an increasing demand for clinical specialists trained in the assessment, management, treatment and service needs of people with neurological disorders. In the UK these services have traditionally been offered, in the main, by clinical psychologists who have developed a specialist knowledge of neuropsychology through their professional practice and continuing professional development.

Neuropsychologists are now working on the development of a formal training route and it is hoped that this will be introduced towards the end of 2001. The planned training will be available to qualified psychologists (usually clinical psychologists although psychologists from a different professional background may choose to specialise in neuropsychology) and will involve an academic/knowledge based component and a clinical component. It is expected that completion of this specialist training will take two years and those who successfully complete the qualification will be eligible for practitioner membership of the Division of Neuropsychology

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Teaching and Research

There are no formal qualifications which prepare you to teach undergraduate students although most universities make provision for newly appointed staff to take a postgraduate certificate in HE and this is likely to become the norm.
Many psychologists are entered onto the Register of Chartered Psychologists by virtue of holding a postgraduate research degree in psychology. Registration is via a research route and is usually only open to those who hold a Society-accredited first degree in addition to a doctoral level degree in psychology.

Teachers of psychology normally work in schools, colleges or universities where they teach at a number of levels. To teach in a university you will require appropriate higher qualifications in psychology (normally a postgraduate qualification). Teachers of psychology may join the Division for Teachers and Researchers in Psychology, and if they are elected to Full Membership of the Division, can become Chartered Psychologists. Information on the criteria to join the Division by this route is available from the Society. In addition, in 1991 a Diploma in the Applied Psychology of Teaching was introduced, with holders eligible for registration as a Chartered Psychologist. To teach in a University you will require appropriate higher qualifications in psychology (normally postgraduate qualifications).

To teach in a state school, it is necessary to have a Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE). Formal qualifications in psychology are not, however, always required by employers. In fact, psychology graduates sometimes find it difficult to find places on PGCE courses because psychology is not a National Curriculum subject. Care is needed in selecting subsidiary courses at undergraduate level as these choices can help or hinder graduates with their studies later; those who are unable to get on a PGCE course can undertake a conversion course from another degree to psychology if necessary to help them qualify for a place. This course usually lasts for two years. For more information contact the Graduate Teacher Training Registry or The Teacher Training Agency.

No teacher training colleges offer psychology as a main subject at secondary level, and psychology graduates therefore have to train to teach one of the subjects included in the National Curriculum in addition to psychology.

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Psychotherapy covers the psychological treatment of a wide range of mental and physical ills by a number of different methods, each developed in terms of its own theoretical framework. Such treatment is carried out with individual patients or clients, with groups of patients and with children as well as adults. Methods vary from a long series of intimate discussions over two or three years, to only one or two intense interviews. Group treatment may consist of acting out problems or the encouragement of expression of inhibited emotions within the therapeutic group.

The Society cannot provide information about suitable courses and does not accredit training courses in psychotherapy for people who are not already Chartered Psychologists. Such graduates should contact the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, or the UK Council for Psychotherapy or The British Confederation for Psychotherapists. Further details on psychotherapy training is also available in our booklet Studying psychology.

Currently there is no registration or licensing of psychotherapists in the UK, and so there are no specific qualifications required for private practice. Public employing authorities each have their own regulations. The NHS has posts for child psychotherapists and the Association of Child Psychotherapists is the appropriate body to advise on training.

Sport psychology

Along with many other areas where psychology has begun to be applied to practical problems, the Society does not at present recognise any particular training programmes or courses in sports psychology as providing an approved route to Chartered status. Applications for Registration from individual candidates with postgraduate training and expertise in sports psychology are considered on their merits in keeping with the general principles in the Society's document Criteria for Registration as a Chartered Psychologist. The Register of Chartered Psychologists includes a number of psychologists who have the expertise to offer a service in sports psychology. Most of these will have been admitted to the Register on the basis of a postgraduate research degree, or a training in another area of applied psychology.

The British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences keeps a list of sports psychologists it has approved. Some of these will not be eligible to join the Society.

Psychiatry, Psychology , Social Work
The programme includes models of addictive behaviour, models of counselling for alcohol and drug problems, group therapy for alcohol and drug problems, dual diagnosis and assessment and treatment planning in various settings. If you complete the Diploma programme you can opt to transfer to the MSc Mental Health Studies.
PURPOSE / DESIGNED FOR / TARGET STUDENTS
Professionals with qualifications in psychology, psychiatry, psychiatric nursing, social work, counselling or psychotherapy, who are working with substance-dependent people in a counselling relationship.

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Mental Health, Psychiatry
The programme emphasis is on teaching clinical skills, the clinical techniques of assessment and therapy and on service planning issues relevant to child mental health. Communication skills (especially those needed to train other health workers) are specifically taught. Graduates will be able to develop a culturally sensitive and clinically effective service which is informed by up-to-date knowledge about child development and psychopathology.
PURPOSE / DESIGNED FOR / TARGET STUDENTS
For clinicians in psychiatry or psychology or paediatricians from countries where training in child psychiatry or psychiatric services is limited. To help you acquire skills and knowledge in child and adolescent mental health and psychiatric disorder, so you can work clinically in the field and contribute to the planning and implementation of child mental health and child and adolescent psychiatry services. To plan and conduct relevant research studies.

Mental Health, Psychiatry
The programme emphasises research and the teaching of relevant skills, clinical techniques of assessment and therapy and service planning issues relevant to child mental health. We teach skills in communication and in training other health workers. Programme graduates will be able to contribute to culturally sensitive and clinically effective services through relevant research, including health service development research. Clinicians therefore develop research skills, acquire an updated knowledge of current research in the field whilst further developing clinical skills.
PURPOSE / DESIGNED FOR / TARGET STUDENTS
For psychiatrists, paediatricians, and psychologists with relevant experience from countries where training in child psychiatry (including research training) is limited. To extend knowledge of child development and psychiatry including recent research initiatives. To learn about research relating to the psychological and physical treatments for emotional, behavioural and developmental disorders in children and young people. To understand research methodology and statistics, and skills in diagnosis, formulation and in planning therapeutic interventions. To learn about service planning issues eg service monitoring and evaluation.

Health care, Psychiatry, Psychology
The programme enables you to develop the skills needed to provide treatment for misuse and dependence, organise treatment services, perform high-quality health service-related research, train other professionals and to act as a health advocate.
PURPOSE / DESIGNED FOR / TARGET STUDENTS
For students with a medical, nursing, psychology or psychiatric background who have an interest in the substance misuse field. To provide an internationally recognised vocational qualification with an integrated, multidisciplinary teaching approach to misuse of, and dependence on, alcohol, nicotine and other drugs.

Medicine, Psychology
The course is divided into six modules: basic research methods and statistics; health-related behaviours and cognitions; coping with chronic illness and disability; advanced research methods and statistics; healthcare delivery; linked themes and related disciplines.
PURPOSE / DESIGNED FOR / TARGET STUDENTS
The course provides a thorough grounding in the main findings, theories and methods, the course is primarily intended as a training for researchers in Health Psychology. It also provides an opportunity to examine the applicability of psychological interventions in this area.

Mental Health, Psychiatry, Social Work
The programme consists of three inter-connected modules: practice teaching; research teaching; theory and knowledge relevant to mental health social work. Practice teaching is based on the presentation of your case material drawn from current work in your social work agency. Audio and video tape is used to develop reflective and culturally sensitive practice and to promote advanced skills informed by research-based knowledge.
PURPOSE / DESIGNED FOR / TARGET STUDENTS
For qualified social workers who wish to specialise in the mental health care of children and adults, social work managers, lecturers and training officers. To meet the recognised need for continuing professional development in mental health social work. To develop critical appreciation of current knowledge and theory in the programme field. To provide systematic case consultation to develop more advanced and culturally sensitive practice skills, and preparation and support for the conduct of original research.

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