Clinical Psychology Teaching
Teaching Focus
Clinical psychology in Experimental Psychology
Oxford has an extraordinary history of developing effective psychological therapies for mental health difficulties, many of which are recommended in national guidelines and implemented in the NHS and services worldwide. The therapies are built on theoretical models which are supported by experimental psychology research and developed in close collaboration with people with lived experience. The therapies are then tested in randomised controlled trials before becoming approved treatments.
To widen access to these therapies, clinical psychology teams in our department have successfully developed guided online and immersive forms of these therapies in the past few years.
Our teams work especially closely with Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, as well as the University’s Department of Psychiatry. Several senior researchers in our department lead research themes in the National Institute of Health and Care Research (NIHR) Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre (BRC).
Clinical psychology in our teaching
In 2023, Oxford’s clinical psychology doctoral (DClinPsych) course became part of the department. This is the professional qualification to be a clinical psychologist. This is completed after an undergraduate degree and experience as a research assistant or psychology assistant. It is an exciting development for the department to have the trainees and such a large group of trainers and researchers in clinical psychology join. See also: https://oxicptr.web.ox.ac.uk/admissions
In addition to this course, clinical psychology expertise is woven into many other aspects of the teaching in Experimental Psychology. For example:
- Clinical psychologists contribute to the teaching of undergraduate degrees, including first year teaching in abnormal psychology and third year advanced options in anxiety disorders, psychosis, and working with children and adolescents.
- There is the potential for research projects in one of the department's clinical psychology, mental health, and wellbeing research groups.
- There are many people in the department studying postgraduate degrees such as DPhils on mental health topics or working as research assistants on clinical trials of mental health treatments.
Clinical psychology in the new building
The department’s new home – the Life and Mind Building - has a mental health unit for adults and a mental health unit for children and adolescents on the second floor. These are welcoming, state of the art, facilities for research and testing new innovative treatments.
Other Teaching in the Department
RESEARCH GROUPS IN THIS THEME
