Our Mental Health and Wellbeing degree is outlined to give you the knowledge and skills to identify, understand and respond creatively to the various factors that influence mental health and wellbeing.
Curriculum is designed to equip you with current knowledge and skills applicable to and transferable across a diverse range of working contexts in the public, private and third sector services. • A range of authentic assessments that align with professional practice, such as portfolios, risk assessments, intervention plans, and interviews. • The academic lecturing team draw from their diverse range of professional practice and industry experience to enhance your learning opportunities. • A focus on personal and professional development, to support and enable you to pursue careers supporting individuals, organisations, and communities maintain and promote mental health and wellbeing.
Registration and Tuition
Registration: 25,000
Tuition: 700,000XAF/year
Field Placement: 100,000XAF (Paid in Year 3)
The BSc in Mental Health and Wellbeing at Afro-Brit Centre for International Development will run for 3 years for full time and 4years for part time students.
The programme will take off with students exposed to foundational courses on Data and Research, Communication and will be blended with a course on Professional Development for Practitioners. In addition to these, the following courses have been structured for the three years of study:
Year 1
The first year of the programme will focus on the following modules: Academic and Professional Skills, Mental Health and Wellbeing in Context, Positive Psychology and Resilience as well as Mental Health, Wellbeing and the Individual. This will allow students to be fully grounded in the theoretical and conceptual aspects of Mental Health.
Year 2
In year two, the students will be equipped with knowledge and skills in Children and Young People’s Mental Health, Adult Mental Health, Mental Health in the Workplace, Skills and Interventions of the Mental Health Practitioner
Year 3
Year three will be characterised by courses like Global Perspectives and Cultural Comparisons, Community Health and Wellbeing in Practice, Mental Health and the Media. In addition to this, students will be placed in partner organisations implementing mental health related programmes and they will also conclude the programme with a Research Project (Health and Social Contexts).
Graduate employment opportunities that might be available to graduates of the programme could include Assistant practitioner, e.g. Occupational Therapy Assistant, Psychosocial Support Officers and Coordinators, Community Development Worker, Healthcare Manager, Health Promotion Specialist, Children and Young People’s Mental Health Service Providers, Primary Care Mental Health Worker and Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner. Students may also want to progress to postgraduate study to access further careers, e.g. Nursing, Public Health, Social Work, Teaching.
Flexible learning tailored to Meet Your Career Needs
At Afro-Brit, our BSc in Mental Health and Wellbeing is designed to equip you with the understanding, empathy, and professional skills to support individuals, communities, and organisations in promoting better mental health.
