Postgraduate Diploma in Forensic Mental Health

 Forensic Mental Health Application Form 2008-09

 Postgraduate DiplomaMSc in Forensic Mental Health Additional Information

Aims & Objectives of the Course

• Provide students with a strong theoretical basis in the professional and academic understandings of criminality and mental disorder
• Enable students to meet and learn from the experience of practitioners within other agencies concerned with mentally disordered offenders
• Enhance existing practice-based skills of participants through specialist teaching related to mentally disordered offenders
• Provide students with an understanding of the social policy issues underpinning current service delivery to mentally disordered offenders
• Promote effective interagency work with mentally disordered offenders

Course Structure

The course is structured into five modules, each consisting of topic-related teaching followed by student-led seminars. This is supplemented by the opportunity for students to participate in the extensive academic programme of the Section of Forensic Psychiatry. The modules are: Violence and Dangerousness; Ethics and Forensic Mental Health; Forensic Psychotherapy; Law and the Mentally Disordered Offender; Social Policy and the Mentally Disordered Offender.

In addition to a rigorous academic approach to the theoretical issues related to the mentally disordered offender, the course promotes up-to-date practice-based skills to equip the student for risk assessment work, work with sex offenders and multi-agency management of mentally disordered offenders.

Grading system

The final grading allocation is the total aggregate of the various assessments. They will be used to determine the award of a Pass or Distinction.

The Diploma consists of six modules:

2 core modules:

Violence and Dangerousness                        30 credits

Current Issues in Forensic Mental Health      30 credits

5 option modules from the following:

Forensic Psychotherapy                                               15 credits

Social Policy                                                                  15 credits

Law and the Mentally Disordered Offender                15 credits

Ethics and Mentally Disordered Offenders                 15 credits

Disordered Personality & Anti-Social Behaviour       15 credits[1]

The pass mark for each assessment is set at 50% and the distinction mark at 70%.

Categories

Distinction            70-100

Good Pass           60-69

Pass                      50-59

Borderline Fail      47-49

Fail0                        -46

The MSc assessment consists of two elements:

Research proposal (Research Methods module 15 credits)

Dissertation (Research Project module 45 credits)

Attendance

The Diploma is a part-time course lasting one academic year. It requires students to be available for teaching one day a week (Friday) at St George's Hospital Medical School.

Fees

£2300 in 2008/9

Further information

For further details please contact:

The Course Administrator
Diploma in Forensic Mental Health
Division of Mental Health
St George's University of  London
Jenner Wing
Cranmer Terrace
London  SW17 0RE

Tel: 020 8725 5518
To whom application forms should be returned.

This is a proposed new module and the Course Director reserves the right to withdraw it from the course if there is insufficient demand