Get an introduction to psychological factors that influence health and wellbeing, such as lifestyle, personality, mental health, motivation and risk-taking.

You'll make links between major psychological theories, concepts and models, applying these to health promotion, prevention and treatment of disease and illness.

You'll develop knowledge and understanding of how people react to, cope with, and recover from illness.

You'll look at cognitive processes, behavioural insights, behaviour change and self-management.

You'll also consider the importance of health literacy, digital health technology and personalised care on self-management of health and wellbeing.

Explore social determinants of health and influencing factors, such as gender, culture, education, poverty, and employment.

You'll investigate the causes and effects of inequalities in health and social care for minority groups, vulnerable adults and ageing populations, including how this may change across the lifespan and within communities.

You'll examine national and international policy responses to address social injustice and how health data can inform our understanding.

You'll consider how sociological theories and concepts such as social conflict theory, feminism, symbolic interactionism and functionalism influence the wider determinants of health within individuals and communities.

You'll look at long-term conditions (LTC) including stroke, heart disease, kidney disease, type 2 diabetes, dementia and respiratory disease.

We'll cover the body systems of the main conditions, aetiology, pathology, risk factors/lifestyle, treatment, and self-management strategies.

We'll focus on public health prevention such as NHS Health Check screening, and strategies to reduce health inequalities in vulnerable groups.

We'll cover interventions such as shared decision-making, supported self-management, living well with LTC, patient activation, social prescribing and improving health literacy.

You'll learn about using health intelligence and data to understand the incidence and prevalence of LTC, such as morbidity and mortality rates.

We'll cover the core values and principles you need to deliver safe, high quality and compassionate care to individuals, families and communities.

These include accountability, the duty of care, codes of conduct, safeguarding, ethical practice, social justice, personalised care and professional identity.

You'll look at the skills required for professional practice including reflective practice, effective communication, supporting equality and diversity, quality assurance, and team and multi-agency working.

We'll cover the influence of policy and legal frameworks on social welfare and contemporary service delivery.

You'll complete the knowledge competencies of the fifteen Standards of the Care Certificate.

The skills competencies can be achieved on work placement during the Professional Development Block at the end of Semester 2.

Both knowledge and skills competency achievements are required to gain the full Care Certificate award.

We'll cover contemporary health and social care policy and legislation from an international, national and regional socio-political perspective.

You'll evaluate how policy and legislation impacts access to and development of service provision, as well as its effectiveness in improving health and social care outcomes.

You'll investigate equality and diversity, human rights, safeguarding, criminal justice, Mental Health and Mental Capacity Acts considering the role of culture, advocacy, choice and empowerment.

You'll explore theories and concepts of ethics using case studies, discussing how to respond to ethical dilemmas in health and social care practice.

We'll introduce concepts of leadership to the multi-professional integrated workforce involved in building a health, educational and welfare team around the child.

We'll focus on working in partnership with parents as children's first educators, supporting the home learning environment, and listening to and working in collaboration with young children.

You'll consider approaches to leadership and the impact of leadership on team working.

You'll explore the challenges and constraints around multi-agency working and appraise the benefits to the child, family and society in the context of cultural differences, ethical approaches and social justice.

You'll look at the way professionals within education, social care and other sectors, work together for the benefit of children and families.

There are three stages to the module - preparation, work placement and reflection.

You'll have workshops to develop your employability skills, analyse your career prospects and go through the practicalities of getting and undertaking a professional placement.

You'll complete a short weekly reflective log reflecting upon the practical skills gained through your placement experience and what you have learnt about applying theoretical understanding in practice.

Explore a series of research methods, including their key features, usefulness and application in different contexts.

You'll critically examine research methodologies, with an emphasis on ethical research conduct.

You'll evaluate the usefulness of research methodologies to explore specific research questions, problems and designs.

You'll reflect on ethical issues relating to children, families, communities and professional settings.

You'll understand how to design, conduct and write up research, and understand the relationship between research, policy and practice.

We'll cover principles and practice of personalised care, including the holistic provision of care, assessment and support planning for individuals and communities.

You'll look a the role of social prescribing as a fundamental intervention for the universal model of personalised care.

You'll develop skills in strengths-based approaches, motivational interviewing, health literacy, shared decision-making, supported self-management, advocacy, restorative practice, behaviour change and cultural competence.

You'll critically review integrated care systems and interdisciplinary work to engage communities to improve their health and wellbeing, taking account of the role of a social prescriber.

You’ll develop, negotiate and complete a collaborative work-based learning project and apply the theoretical understanding you have acquired in your studies so far into a practical setting related to health, care and community settings.

You’ll take ownership of your learning through the independent designing, brokering, negotiating, completing and evaluating of your collaborative work-based learning project.

Explore problems contemporary families may face and the service support available locally and nationally, focussing on parental empowerment.

You'll critique the role of the government and the conflict between family rights and state intervention.

We'll then look at therapeutic support for families.

You'll study therapeutic interventions and associated theoretical approaches.

You'll make links between theory and practice, looking at research from national and international perspectives.

Explore contemporary issues in mental health and wellbeing across the life-course through the lens of positive psychology.

You'll apply strengths-based approaches focusing on interventions to support service users’ resilience and recovery.

You'll use health data to investigate the epidemiology of mental health problems across the life-course and critically analyse international, national and regional policy responses to service delivery, focussing on public mental health and prevention.

We'll use case studies to explore assessment and care planning, risk management, cultural diversity, mental health literacy, mindfulness and how social determinants affect inequalities in mental health and wellbeing.

Showcase your integrated learning with an independent project relevant to your course and interests.

You'll have tutorials to help you work out the format and focus of your project.

You'll have formative assessment points to act as stepping stones towards completion.

The module will culminate in an assessment event where you'll present work in a negotiated format.