Well-being in Practice (PSYC90111)

The Well-being in Practice subject will provide its students with integrated well-being and clinical practice related knowledge, understanding and associated experiential learning resources and activities. This will help students develop an integrated theoretical and practical understanding of well-being, well-being improving techniques, clinical practice, and their interrelationship. The subject will include content on the measurement and evaluation of well-being and well-being improvement in response to various interventions. There will be a practical and experiential component in which students are challenged to actively apply well-being techniques in their own lives as well as help other people, including prospective clients, apply them in their lives. Students will use a range of well-being improving techniques and evaluate their efficacy. Students will therefore develop a theoretical, personal and clinical understanding of the effectiveness of well-being improving interventions including mindfulness and behaviour change.

Introductory therapeutic skills will be learned which scaffold to skills taught in subsequent subjects of the degree. These skills have a broad application in clinical and professional psychology contexts to improve levels of well being. 

The subject will include online content modules supported by workbooks and journals. The workbooks will guide students through online learning content including multi‐media materials, videos and learning activities. These resources will support clinical techniques which will be covered in the course and will include clinical mindfulness, clinical behaviour change and clinical resilience building. Students will be paired with other students in tutorials to perform tasks designed to reinforce what they have learned in that week’s workbook.