University Master’s Degree in General Health Psychology - Official

The Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences has developed this University Master’s Degree in General Health Psychology to provide continuity to students from the Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology at UIC Barcelona and other institutions who are interested in practising psychology in health settings.

The main aim of the University Master’s Degree in General Health Psychology is to offer students the opportunity to practise psychology in a real, controlled and supervised context. It will give them the confidence, tools and assurance they need to become professional practitioners.

• Individual attention and supervision: maximum 30 students.
• We provide students a comprehensive education, helping them to gradually acquire the skills and tools they need to practise the profession.
• Our teaching methodology is based on simulation and the analysis of real cases.
• We have the Support Clinic, our own psychology and psychiatry clinic, where students can see how what they learn in class applies in a real-world setting.
• Within the internship offer, Clínica Support reserves spots that allow the assigned student to manage their own patient schedule with clinical supervision.
• One-off sessions focused on self-knowledge and self-care, to foster personal and professional development as a therapist.
• Clinical case supervision sessions aimed at integrating theory with practice and developing the professional judgment of future therapists.
• The students are provided the fundamentals and tools necessary to become entrepreneurs.
• Our facilities include an Experimental Psychology Laboratory.
• We are an innovative faculty and up-to-date with the latest methodologies.
• The Psychology degrees are taught on the Sant Cugat Campus, in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, in a multidisciplinary environment that fosters synergies between students from the various bachelor’s degree programmes.

• Dynamic and participatory classes.
• Session simulations with actors.
• Observation of real sessions in our own psychology and psychiatry clinic (Support).
• Participation in sessions as co-therapist.
• Own roster of patients at the Support Clinic and teaching of group health promotion sessions. This includes individual supervision and case reviews.

• Ethics
• High demands
• Work ethic
• Love for the profession

This master’s degree is intended for anyone with a bachelor's or undergraduate degree in Psychology who has taken at least 90 health-specific credits and is interested in furthering their knowledge and acquiring the competences and skills necessary to work in health settings.

They must be professionals with a desire to promote the health and wellbeing of their patients and who are capable of establishing a professional relationship of support during life processes. They should therefore possess:

• The ability to think critically.
• A great ability to analyse and summarise. 
• Interpersonal and communication skills.
• The ability to conduct research.
• A capacity for creativity and innovation.
• The ability to work as a team.

Students must be able to attend the classes and complete the practicum.

Máster Universitario en Psicología General Sanitaria por la Universitat Internacional de Catalunya

The University Master’s Degree in General Health Psychology at UIC Barcelona entitles holders to practise as general health psychologists, as provided for in Law 33/2011 on Public Health, published in the Official Spanish State Gazette on 5 October 2011.

It is also an official master’s degree that allows participants to continue on to doctoral studies.