Apprenticeship in Health Psychology

Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Demonstrate basic professional skills appropriate to a trainee health psychologist
• Critically reflect on your current skills related to health psychology
• Evaluate the application of theory in health psychology
• Describe how your work relates to one or more core health psychology domain
• Work effectively under the supervision of a health psychologist

Your work as an apprentice will help you to develop generic professional skills and skills specific to one or more core health psychology domains of research, teaching, consultancy, and interventions.

In this module you will learn through a period of supervised practice as a Health Psychology Apprentice. Supported by module staff, you will select a suitable health psychologist to apprentice with. You will then work under the supervision of that health psychologist one day a week for the entire semester. Your apprenticeship supervisor will offer opportunities for skills development that are embedded in their ongoing programme of work. This will allow you to become immersed in the day to day activities of a health psychologist. You will have opportunities to develop generic professional skills, along with skills specific to one or more core health psychology domains of research, teaching, consultancy, and interventions. For example, you might assist with intervention development and testing, collaborate on research projects, and/or act as a trainee teaching assistant. Your apprenticeship may also involve you working with other members of your supervisor’s group; in this way you can gain experience of team working and working with other groups of professionals. During the apprenticeship you will keep a logbook, in which you record your main activities and describe the skills you are developing.

You will receive formative feedback on your progress in this module from your apprentice supervisor (who will provide verbal formative feedback on your practical work) and the module co-ordinator (who will provide written feedback on your apprenticeship plan and verbal feedback and guidance in three tutorials).

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.