Degree Subject Information

Psychology

You will find the following information on this page. To go directly to a section, click on the list below:

• Using your degree
• Other career options
• Graduate Destinations from Psychology courses
• Organisations associated with Psychology
• Useful web sites
• Resources in the careers service
• Information days, events and careers fairs
• Postgraduate study in Psychology
• Further training

Using your Psychology degree

The AGCAS booklet Social Care and Health sectors give an overview of the sectors relevant topsychology students, and includes key roles for graduates, case studies and further links and resources. Copies of these are available free from the careers service or you can view them online at www.prospects.ac.uk.

Signpost sheets look at individual subjects of study and identifies skills gained during your course, career options related to your subject, and graduate case studies.

Look at the student employability profile for psychology graduates at www.cihe-uk.com.

Other career options

Job sector information pages on this website have information on types of jobs available within sectors, where to look for jobs and placements, relevant resources in the careers service, specialist careers events and professional development and training information.

Prospects website has an explore types of jobs section which includes job profiles of over 800 occupations. Information for each job coverssalary and conditions, entry requirements, training and career development, typical employers and vacancy sources, case studies and contacts and resources.

Other relevant pages on this website are what can I do with my degree and what should I be doing now.

Graduate destinations frompsychology courses

Click here to see what Bath Spa Psychology graduates are doing now......

Click here to see national graduate statistics by subject on the Prospects website.....

Organisations associated with psychology

Professional Bodies and Associations often have a careers section with job profiles, information, placements, jobs and advice for graduates.

The Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP)
120 West Heath Road, London NW3 7TU
Tel: 020 8458 1609
www.acp.uk.net

British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP)
BACP House, 35-37 Albert Street, Rugby, Warwickshire CV21 2SG
Tel: 0870 443 5252
www.bacp.co.uk

British Association of Psychotherapists (BAP)
37 Mapesbury Road, London NW2 4HG
Tel: 020 8452 9823
www.bap-psychotherapy.org

British Confederation of Psychotherapists
West Hill House, 6 Swains Lane, London N6 6QS
Tel: 020 7267 3626
www.bcp.org.uk

British Psychological Society (BPS)
St Andrews House, 48 Princess Road East, Leicester LE1 7DR
Tel: 0116 254 9568
www.bps.org.uk

The National Health Service (NHS)
PO Box 376, Bristol BS99 3EY
Tel: 020 7210 4850
www.nhs.uk

UK Council for Psychotherapy
167-169 Great Portland Street, London W1W 5PF
Tel: 020 7436 3002
www.psychotherapy.org.uk

Clearing House for Postgrad Courses in Clinical Psychology
The Clearing House for PCCP, 15 Hyde Terrace, Leeds LS2 9LT
Tel: 0113 343 2733
www.leeds.ac.uk/chpccp

Useful web sites

Allied Health Professions
NHS site

American psychology links

BBC Science & Nature, Human Body & Mind
Careers in psychology information

British Psychodrama Association
Information, training and links

HEA Psychology Network
HE learning and teaching site for psychology

Psyclick
Clinical pyschology forum

Psychnet-uk.com
Mental health and psychology directory

Psychology links from Kent University

SOSIG psychology resources
Gateway to internet resources

ITSN Psychology
HEA information on UK psychology departments

The Psychologist
Online articles from the magazine

UK psychology links

Resources in the careers service

These materials are available at Newton Park and are on reference only.

These can be found within the Careers Information rooms at NP and SP and are available for reference:

• Careers in Nursing & Related Professions
• Careers in social Care
• Compass, complete guide to careers in Social Work and Social Care
• Counselling as a Career
• Getting into Healthcare Professions

Occupational files in the careers service most relevant to Psychology are

• Psychology General, B
• Psychology by type, B
• Social and Probation Work, B
• Youth and Community Work, B
• Religious Work and Counselling, B
• Complementary Medicine and Therapies, C

Information days , events and careers fairs

Look at the Whats On section of this website for events and fairs

Prospects website has a general careers fair section, searchable by type of event and location

Postgraduate study in Psychology

For more general information, refer to the postgraduate and further study section of this website.

For a list of accredited courses for Graduate registration, and for Postgraduate training courses click here.

For information on postgraduate courses at Bath Spa click here.

Prospects website has a searchable database of all UK postgraduate courses, and a section on work related courses including psychology conversion courses.

Clearing House for Postgraduate Courses in Clinical Psychology. List courses, details funding and has application forms avaliable to download, closing date 1st December.

Course Discover is a database available in the careers service is a searchable database of postgraduate and FE courses.

Further Training

Most professional bodies run courses and seminars for continuing professional development, see the organisations list above.