Behaviour Change and Clinical Practitioner Skills PgDip

**Please check the Sheffield Hallam University website for the latest information.**<br/><br/>**This course is moving into one of our new buildings at City campus. Teaching will be delivered at our Collegiate campus during the 2024/25 academic year while we get our new facilities ready. After that you will study in brand new facilities at City campus**<br/><br/>**Course Summary**<br/><br/><br/>- Learn to apply different approaches, theories and models to health-related issues and behaviour change.<br/><br/><br/>- Develop your ability to reflect on your practice, planning and personal development.<br/><br/><br/>- Build an understanding of clinical practitioner skills to enhance your applied work with patients, service users and clients in a variety of health and social care settings.<br/><br/><br/>- Apply problem solving strategies to complex professional scenarios.<br/><br/><br/>- Develop research and literature reviewing skills.<br/><br/><br/>This course focuses on health psychology’s approach to understanding people’s experience of illness, disability and health. Youll acquire knowledge and skills that enhance your professional practice, enable you to meet new challenges, and understand ways to improve care.<br/><br/>**How you learn**<br/><br/>All our courses are designed around a set of key principles based on engaging you with the world, collaborating with others, challenging you to think in new ways, and providing you with a supportive environment in which you can thrive.<br/><br/>This course is multi-disciplinary, exploring health and illness in terms of its psychological, sociological, biological and political context. Areas of study include biopsychosocial approaches to acute illness, adjustment to long-term conditions and bereavement, clinical practitioner skills and competencies and behaviour change interventions.<br/><br/>Modules combine online learning with weekly on-campus study days. This provides flexible learning opportunities to enable a diverse range of students to study alongside employment and/or family commitments. Students attend an induction on campus in September, before typically attending one day per week thereafter.<br/><br/>You learn through<br/><br/><br/>- online study<br/><br/><br/>- group work<br/><br/><br/>- problem solving<br/><br/><br/>- practitioner skills workshops<br/><br/><br/>**Applied learning**<br/><br/>**Live/real world projects**<br/><br/>An important part of your learning is to apply your developing knowledge and skills to real-world problems, both individually and in group discussion. Our course leaders are experts in clinical health practitioner work in private practice and in the NHS. Youll have the opportunity to practice applied practitioner skills on campus, such as person-centred care, conflict resolution, solution-focused counselling and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), and consultation and collaborative treatment planning.<br/><br/>This course aims to provide you with the ability to use your work or voluntary experience within a health and/or social care related setting to aid your learning and training. For example, work-based reflection is a core element of the clinical practitioner skills and competencies module and is designed to contribute to your continuing personal and professional development.<br/><br/>If you do not work in a health-related setting, we have a careers workshop and a dedicated careers adviser who can help you find suitable employment or voluntary work. <br/><br/>**Networking opportunities**<br/><br/>Specialist research seminars, delivered by members of the department and guest speakers which include academics and practitioners, are used to deepen knowledge and understanding of the course content.<br/><br/>All our courses are well supported by a comprehensive suite of career management services including interview training, and networking opportunities. There is also have a week of dedicated focus on employability to give you early orientation to career opportunities, and we encourage an atmosphere of supportiveness among our students.<br/><br/>This course is designed to enhance your continuing professional development or employability in any health or social care setting.