Overview

Within this Addiction and Mental Health degree from  London Metropolitan University , you’ll develop a broad scientific knowledge base, learning how to critically approach addictive behaviours, mental health conditions and understand how the two interact.

Quick Facts:

• At the core of this course are theoretical models and critical approaches around addictive behaviours and mental health conditions. Knowing how to intervene in an addiction and mental health context is key and complex. This master’s course allows you to build your understanding of intervention and learn about neuroscience and pharmacotherapy in relation to addiction.
• In order to develop a broad knowledge base, it will guide you through the legal framework, relevant policies and ethical arguments to give you a complete, holistic understanding from a societal perspective.
• By engaging with evidence, you’ll learn to determine for yourself what counts as robust and forward-thinking in the field.
• The programme's focus on your career development and giving you the knowledge and skills to work in areas across the addiction sector. You'll be taught by practitioners and researchers in the addiction and mental health fields about the assessment, management and treatment of addiction.

Career opportunities:

• Completing this master’s degree will help you identify and pursue a career that’s important to you.
• Their programme of studies will strengthen pathways toward a career as an addictions practitioner or a career in research studying addictive behaviours. Many of their graduates have found that their studies help them enter a range of careers, including clinical psychology, social work and para-medical disciplines.
• Alternatively, you may already work in addiction services and therefore this course aims to strengthen your career progression.