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This course is for health and social care professionals, therapists, counsellors and workers in the voluntary sector.
There are two approaches to the course. The practitioner element is for training sexual and relationship psychotherapists. It includes specific training for supervised clinical work, helping couples and individuals with sexual and relationship difficulties. You work in co-therapy with experienced and nationally accredited therapists, or on your own. The module only option is learning only. It does not involve direct client work and has a separate certification.
This is a professional qualification training route to United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) registration.
Seminars take place at the Porterbrook Clinic which specialises in sexual and relationship problems.
Studying at Porterbrook Clinic gives you the opportunity to work in an internationally recognised centre of excellence for assessing and treating sexual and relationship difficulties. You work alongside colleagues with a diverse range of experiences and benefit from an academic and clinical qualification when you successfully complete the course.
Find out more about MSc/PgDip Sexual and Relationship Psychotherapy
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Part-time – typically four years to MSc, two years to PgDip
You attend the Porterbrook Clinic 8.30am–6pm each Thursday
Starts September
Please contact the Porterbrook Clinic for an application form.
2013/14 academic year
For more information, please contact the Porterbrook Clinic, email porterbrook@shsc.nhs.uk
The course fee may be subject to annual inflationary increase. For further information on fees and funding see www.shu.ac.uk/funding
• written assignments • clinical work submissions • supervisor reports • presentations
The College of Sexual and Relationship Therapists (COSRT) approves the MSc and PgDip. If you complete these successfully, and do extra supervised clinical and developmental work, you can apply for the COSRT accreditation. It also allows you to apply for registration with the UK Council for Psychotherapy.
Psychology facilities
We have recently updated our laboratory facilities to enable more flexible and dedicated teaching of research methods and statistics. There is also space for more general purpose laboratory work such as running focus groups and one-to-one interviews.
Main psychology laboratory
This contains teaching space with PCs and space for non-computerised research teaching. You can access dedicated software including E-Prime experiment generator software to run computerised experiments. You can also analyse quantitative data using both SPSS and AMOS statistical packages, and qualitative data using the NVivo package.
Eye tracking laboratory
Using advanced technology, the ASL 501 Pan-tilt eye-tracker is a non-obtrusive eye-tracker which does not require head mounted tracking equipment. This is currently a laboratory-based tracker but is being adapted for portability to enable eye-tracking research in the field.
Psychophysiology laboratory
This houses electroencephalograph (EEG) facilities, allowing recording from up to 32 sites on the scalp for the collection of fine detailed EEG information. We also have more basic psychophysiology apparatus, such as heart-rate and skin-conductance recording equipment.
Low-level vision laboratory.
This facility has dedicated equipment especially suited to fine grained manipulation of stimulus intensities and durations, particularly suited to low-level vision research.
We also have access to a number of other research facilities which are available through arrangement with other sections of the University. There are considerable laboratory facilities within the Centre for Sports and Exercise Science including soundproof and climate control rooms, as well as facilities within the Faculty of Health and Wellbeing.
Dr Allen Goodwin, senior lecturer (1:35)
Dr Allen Goodwin talks about the completion of dissertations for postgraduate psychology courses – what they are, how to go about choosing a topic and how it will benefit you in the future.
Dr Iain Garner, head of programmes (2:04)
Dr Iain Garner provides an overview of the postgraduate psychology department at Sheffield Hallam – what subjects you will be exposed to, how the courses are structured and how you will benefit from your time at Sheffield Hallam.
A graduate perspective (1:58)
One of our graduates talks about their experiences on the course and how it has helped her achieve her career aims.
Staff profiles
Visit the Department of Psychology, Sociology and Politics website to view profiles of the staff who teach in this subject area.
