BSc Applied Psychology (Clinical)

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BSc Applied Psychology (Clinical)

• Dr Paul Farrand
• Programme Director

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BSc Applied Psychology (Clinical) at Exeter

• 10th in the UK for Psychology
• Excellent teaching quality
• 90 for Overall Satisfaction in National Student
  Survey 2011
• Internationally rated research (RAE 2008)
• 11th in UK for world leading research

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Teaching Facilities

• Resources of specialist clinical training group
  (CEDAR) with national reputation
• Clinical skills training suites with full
  audio/visual recording capacity
• State-of-the-art computer laboratories
• Specialist practical laboratories

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Teaching Expertise

• International expertise in translating research
  evidence into training and intervention
  development
• CBT Mindfulness (Professor Kuyken)
• Rumination (Professor Watkins)
• Low Intensity CBT (Professor Richards, Dr
  Farrand)
• Nationally recognised clinical training expertise
• Dr Farrand nominated for National Teaching
  Fellowship
• Clinically active staff
• Research on clinical training methods
  incorporated into programmes

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Teaching Delivery

• Full range of teaching and assessment methods
  used
• Simulated competency assessments with actors
  (Richards, D Whyte, M., 2008).
• Problem Based Learning (Stedman, J., Wood, J.,
  Curle, C. Haslam, C, 2005).
• Self-Practice/Self-Reflection to support training
  in CBT (Haarhoff, B. Farrand, P., 2012).
• Reflective blogs to support Self-Practice/Self-Ref
  lection (Farrand, P., Perry, J., Linsley, S.,
  2010). 

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Teaching Delivery

• Nationally recognised centre of excellence for
  training Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners.

• Dedicated Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner
  Clinical Educator team.

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Research Facilities

• Mood Disorders Centre internationally recognised
  specialist research group
• Specialist facilities including
• access to fMRI imaging and psychophysiological
  labs
• group research treatment rooms
• clinical labs

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Clinical Facilities

• AccEPT Clinic psychological therapies service
  offering access to psychological treatments under
  development

• Provides research placement opportunities
• Enables academic staff to retain clinical
  practice

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• Offers a broad foundation in the core areas of
  psychology
• Provides a specific focus on the clinical
  applications of psychology
• Develops clinical competency in low intensity
  cognitive behavioural therapy
• Provides a range of academic, clinical, research
  and transferable skills to prepare you
  confidently for employment or future study

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Professional and National Recognition
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The BSc Applied Psychology (Clinical) has been
developed in line with The Future of
Undergraduate Psychology in the United Kingdom, a
joint paper between the BPS, the Higher Education
Academy, Psychology Network and the Associated
Heads of Psychology Departments aimed at
considering how to provide students with an
undergraduate learning experience that will
enable them to apply their psychological literacy
throughout their lives. The programme has been
designed to improve employability following
graduation, whether they decide to go into a
clinical psychology role or move into a different
career and reduce stigma of mental health
sufferers through increased public
understanding. 
The Psychologist (March, 2012p224)
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• Core psychology modules shared in years 1 and 2
  withBSc Psychology
• Increasing focus on clinical applications of
  psychology
• Four modules making up clinical training

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Year 1 Year 1 Year 1 Year 1 Year 1 Year 1 Year 1 Year 1 Year 1
Term 1 Term 1 Term 1 Term 1 Term 1 Term 1 2 Term 2 Term 2 Term 2
Professional Issues and Development Historical Conceptual Issues in Psychology and Clinical Psychology Introduction to Clinical Psychology Introduction to Clinical Psychology Introduction to Statistics Introduction to Research Methods Introduction to Social Psychology Introduciton to Cognition, Cognitive Development Emotion Evidence Based Psychological Therapy Practice
Year 2 Year 2 Year 2 Year 2 Year 2 Year 2 Year 2 Year 2 Year 2
Term 1 Term 1 Term 1 Term 1 Term 1 Term 1 2 Term 2 Term 2 Term 2
Personality, Individual Differences Mental Health Cognition Emotion Biological Basis of Behaviour Biological Basis of Behaviour Developmental Psychology Psychopathology Methods Statistics in Psychology II Social Psychology II Engagement Assessment of Patients with Common Mental Health Problems Evidence Based Low Intensity Treatment for Common Mental Health Problems
Final year Final year Final year Final year Final year Final year Final year Final year Final year
Term 1 Term 1 2 Term 1 2 Term 1 2 Term 1 2 Term 1 or 2 Term 1 or 2 Term 1 or 2 Term 2
Clinical Practice Placement Clinical Research Project Clinical Research Project Methodological Statistical Approaches in Clinical Psychology Health Services Research Methodological Statistical Approaches in Clinical Psychology Health Services Research One from One from One from Improving Access to Psychological Therapies
Clinical Practice Placement Clinical Research Project Clinical Research Project Methodological Statistical Approaches in Clinical Psychology Health Services Research Methodological Statistical Approaches in Clinical Psychology Health Services Research Cognitive-Behavioural Approaches to Mood Disorders Cognitive-Behavioural Approaches to Mood Disorders Cognitive-Behavioural Approaches to Mood Disorders Improving Access to Psychological Therapies
Clinical Practice Placement Clinical Research Project Clinical Research Project Methodological Statistical Approaches in Clinical Psychology Health Services Research Methodological Statistical Approaches in Clinical Psychology Health Services Research Applied Positive Psychology Applied Positive Psychology Applied Positive Psychology Improving Access to Psychological Therapies
Clinical Practice Placement Clinical Research Project Clinical Research Project Methodological Statistical Approaches in Clinical Psychology Health Services Research Methodological Statistical Approaches in Clinical Psychology Health Services Research Parental Psychiatric Disorders Parental Psychiatric Disorders Parental Psychiatric Disorders Improving Access to Psychological Therapies
Clinical Practice Placement Clinical Research Project Clinical Research Project Methodological Statistical Approaches in Clinical Psychology Health Services Research Methodological Statistical Approaches in Clinical Psychology Health Services Research Compulsive Behaviour Compulsive Behaviour Compulsive Behaviour Improving Access to Psychological Therapies
Clinical Practice Placement Clinical Research Project Clinical Research Project Methodological Statistical Approaches in Clinical Psychology Health Services Research Methodological Statistical Approaches in Clinical Psychology Health Services Research Interpersonal Processes in Psychopathology Interpersonal Processes in Psychopathology Interpersonal Processes in Psychopathology Improving Access to Psychological Therapies
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Dual Accreditation

• BPS accreditation to confer eligibility for
• Graduate basis for chartered membership
• Clinical training component
• Practitioner accreditation with BABCP as NHS role
  as a Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner
  following brief period of employment

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Clinical Practice Placement

• Located within an Improving Access to
  Psychological Therapies (IAPT) service or
  equivalent
• Organised by Exeter Clinical Training Centre
  (CEDAR)
• Two days per week between September and December
  of Year 3
• Competency developed and assessed in previous
  term on IAPT modules
• Undertake role of Trainee Psychological Wellbeing
  Practitioner
• Have own caseload
• Receive supervision

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Clinical Research Project

• Undertaken in final year
• Supervision provided within Mood Disorders Centre
• Opportunity for research placements from year 2
• Opportunity to link topic to current/proposed
  research projects
• Supported by clinically focused statistics and
  methodology modules in years 2 and 3

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Examples of Clinical Research Projects
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Personal and Professional Development

• Establish an ongoing Personal and Professional
  Development (PPD) Planning Portfolio
• Supported through personal tutor system with
  clinical practitioners
• Individual monthly PPD meetings
• Monthly PPD tutorials
• Supports continued reflection on learning and
  development of transferable skills
• Bridges theory-practice divide
• Identifies ongoing development opportunities

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• Improved general employment prospects
• Excellent experience contributing to clinical
  psychology training in the future
• Examples of clinically related posts
• Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner
• Psychology Assistant
• Mental Health Support Work
• Clinical Research Assistant

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What is a Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner?

• Patient-facing mental health professional role
• Undertakes all mental health roles
• Assessment and informal diagnosis
• Psychological intervention
• Signposting
• Supporting medication management
• Collaborative care
• Spearheads new ways of working
• Face-to-face, telephone, email support
• Range of evidence-based interventions

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What Interventions are Supported?

• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) self-help
  based on books, manuals, computerised CBT, moving
  into mobile phone apps
• Support for specific evidence-based low intensity
  CBT interventions including
• Behavioural activation
• Exposure therapy
• Problem solving
• Cognitive restructuring
• Behavioural experiments

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• Development of skills not just linked to
  employment in clinical settings however skills
  are more generic and therefore increase
  employability across wide range of professions

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Improved Employability
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Meeting BPS Recommendations
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Personal Statement
Interview Process
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Personal Statement

• Highlight any experience you already have related
  to mental health
• Work experience
• Personal knowledge
• Project work
• Mention any work experience you have (of whatever
  type)
• Express your passion for this programme
• Convey what you learnt from all of these
  experiences

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Rolling Interview Process

• Small group discussion about mental health with
  members of the Mood Disorders Centre Lived
  Experience Group
• Brief individual interview
• Aim to identify potential for development
• Acknowledged that applicants often will not
  demonstrate at this stage the range of qualities
  desired by the end of the programme

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Still interested?
Additional presentation on the Mood Disorders
Centre, Clinical Training (CEDAR), and Career
Development.
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