心理学与临床和健康心理学理学士（荣誉）

在本课程中，除了学习一般心理学模块外，您还将专门研究与心理和身体健康有关的心理因素。在临床心理学中，您将研究儿童的行为问题，成人的精神疾病和老年的心理问题。这将包括重要的当代问题，例如饮食失调和滥用药物。您将不仅分析导致这些问题的原因，而且还将分析如何解决甚至更好地预防它们。在健康心理学中，您将研究导致某些人以损害健康的方式行事的心理因素，例如饮食不健康，运动量不足或进行不安全的性行为。您将研究当个体患心脏病，癌症和HIV / AIDS等疾病或残疾时发生的情况。除了了解问题出在哪里之外，您还将分析如何通过
Youll specialise in understanding the psychological factors involved in mental and physical health, their causes, treatment, and prevention. In clinical psychology, youll study behavioural problems in children, mental illness in adults, and psychological problems in old age including important contemporary issues such as eating disorders and drug misuse. In health psychology, youll examine the psychological factors that lead some individuals to behave in health-damaging ways and what happens when individuals become ill or disabled.<br>As well as gaining a thorough understanding of the broad range of topics relevant to modern-day psychology, youll specialise in understanding the psychological factors involved in mental and physical health and youll develop clinically relevant skills and knowledge. In clinical psychology, youll study behavioural problems in children, mental illness in adults, and psychological problems in old age. This will include important contemporary issues such as eating disorders, body dysmorphia, and drug misuse. Youll analyse, not only what causes these problems but also how they can be treated, or, even better, prevented. In health psychology, youll examine the psychological factors that lead some individuals to behave in health-damaging ways, such as eating unhealthy diets, not taking enough exercise, or engaging in unsafe sexual behaviour. Youll study what happens when individuals do become ill or disabled, with diseases such as heart disease and cancer, and how stress can impact general health. As well as understanding how things can go wrong, youll analyse how the situation can be improved through psychological interventions such as counselling and mindfulness, as well as the positive benefits of the science of wellbeing.<br><br>Careers<br>Psychology with Clinical and Health Psychology focuses on developing skills suitable for a career in clinical practice but is still suitable for students who want to follow any of the main psychological professions (clinical psychology, educational psychology, counselling psychology, health psychology, etc). In addition, there are careers open to graduates and postgraduates from any discipline. These include, for example, careers in management training, accountancy, teaching, nursing, social work, the police, and the armed forces. Employers are usually looking for general or transferable skills, and a psychology degree provides a unique combination of these as it is both a literate and numerate discipline.<br>Previous graduates from the BSc Psychology with Clinical and Health Psychology course have gone into a wide range of career paths including, but not limited to, assistant psychologists and clinical psychologists, research and academia, working in schools and prisons as well as data scientists in industry.<br>Employability is a key theme of all the psychology programmes you can follow at Bangor and we have embedded a large number of opportunities within our degrees that provide you as strong a CV as possible and equip you with a host of transferable skills that are relevant to both psychology and non-psychology related careers. The simple fact that you