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PSY-30172 - Module Specification
School of Psychology
Faculty of Natural Sciences

For academic year: 2026/27 Last Updated: 16 September 2026

PSY-30172 - Wellbeing & Mental Health Practice
Coordinator: Katie Wright Bevans Room: 1.81 Tel: +44 1782 7 32947
Lecture Time:
Level: Level 6
Credits: 15
Study Hours: 150
School Office: 01782 733736

Programme/Approved Electives for 2026/27

None

Available as a Free Standing Elective

No

Co-requisites

None

Prerequisites

None

Barred Combinations

None

Description for 2026/27

In this module, you will be introduced to advanced psychological approaches to protecting wellbeing and mental health. In this module, you will reflect on different wellbeing and mental health interventions and apply them to your own day to day living and the impact these have on your quality of life. This will inform the assessment where you reflect on the different interventions and explore one intervention in depth.

Aims
This module will enable students to engage with high-level theory and practical applications of wellbeing and mental health. Students will be able to engage proactively throughout the module, using the theories they are introduced to, to enhance their understanding via autoethnography and reflection.

Intended Learning Outcomes

critically discuss research on wellbeing and mental health and explain key topics and concepts in this field: 1
reflect on how theory and research on wellbeing and mental health apply to your own situation and those around you: 2
execute and evidence a single-person case study addressing an autoethnographic project of your own choice: 2

Study hours

Attendance at seminars: 12 hours
Preparation and follow up asynchronous work in between sessions: 38 hours
Design, conduct, analyse and report individual project: 100 hours

School Rules

None

Description of Module Assessment

1: Project weighted 20%
Project proposal
Students need to complete a semi-structured project plan ahead of carrying out their independent project. This will total approximately 500 words and include a brief project outline, two key references with brief overview, intended measures and project outcomes.

2: Portfolio weighted 80%
Portfoilio
1. Students engage with a range of mini-interventions throughout the module and keep a diary of what they did and how they responded to them in terms of their own personal wellbeing and mental health. Students will be asked to reflect on 4 of the mini-interventions they've tried. 2. Students will undertake an independent exercise, building on the tools introduced to them throughout the module, which aims to improve their understanding of their own wellbeing and mental health. They will collect data on themselves as a single person case study, analyse this and write it up as a report. This is a self-reflective study not requiring or allowing data from other people and is not an extensive research project or dissertation. The total portfolio word count is suggested to be 3000 words

The University undertakes a continuous review of its teaching and research provision to ensure programmes are of a high quality and changes may be made to modules where it is necessary and reasonable to do so. Please be aware that minor changes to modules, such as a change to an individual assessment, can occur up until enrolment, although we endeavour to give you as much notice as possible of any changes. Details about the circumstance in which changes are made to programmes can be found in the Student Agreement, available at: https://www.keele.ac.uk/legalgovernancecompliance/governance/actcharterstatutesordinancesandregulations/studenttermsconditions/

Last Updated: 16 September 2026