Year One PG Cert core modules

• Module 1: Military Life and Experience

  This module is aimed at students who are or intend to work with clients/patients from the Military & Veteran community. It provides an overview of Military & Veteran life with an emphasis on deployment and its subsequent effects, both emotional and physical. The purpose of this module is to enable the student to achieve depth and breadth of both knowledge of Military Life and Experience and skill in the use of communication strategies. The course is facilitated through self-directed learning by interacting with on-line reading and activities. Students will also be allocated to a personal 'online' tutor.

• Module 2: Transition and the Veteran Experience

  This module provides an overview of the transition from Military to Veteran life with an emphasis on resettlement, reintegration and adjustment to civilian life and its subsequent effects, both emotional and physical. The purpose of this module is to enable the student to achieve both breadth and depth of knowledge of the transition from military to civilian life and the nature and variety of the veteran experience.

Year Two PG Dip core modules

• Module 3: Military and Veteran Mental Health, Social Care and Welfare - Part 1

  The two Postgraduate Diploma modules will build upon previous knowledge acquired from completing the Postgraduate Certificate in Military and Veteran Mental Health and will include a review of the deployment cycle in order to focus upon post deployment and other stress reactions and responses from a bio-psychosocial perspective. The student is moved onto reviewing and considering the epidemiology of post-traumatic stress disorder and other adjustment disorders resulting from deployment and introduced to the assessment of post trauma reactions, including depression and somatoform disorders, trauma focussed and other interventions available, including pharmacotherapy, and subsequent rehabilitation issues leading into a review of the wider issues impacting upon the veteran and family welfare needs.

• Module 4: Military and Veteran Mental Health, Social Care and Welfare - Part 2

  (Option 1 - students intending to complete the Masters award may substitute the Research Studies module at this stage and undertake this Part 2 module during the next stage). This module provides an overview of Military & Veteran life with a strong emphasis on prevalent subsequent psychological and physical effects with a continuing focus on: depression, chronic pain, phantom limb, adjustment disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, anger and substance misuse (This is not an exhaustive list of presentations). The purpose of this module is to enable the student to expand upon earlier theoretical knowledge gained in Postgraduate Diploma Part 1 and to enhance breadth and depth of theory, knowledge and skills in the use of evidence based treatment plans and protocol driven interventions, together with social and welfare interventions.

Year Three core modules / Masters core modules

• Module 5: Research Studies

  This module is designed to provide students with a critical overview of the main methodologies and designs applied to research within health and social care, professional practice, regulation and policy. It provides students with an opportunity to explore the theoretical dilemmas which underlie the process of inquiry and its relationship to practice. The module will provide a framework within which to select, evaluate and justify the research methods chosen by students for their research project. The module requires the students to prepare and write a research proposal which will normally lead to a level 7 dissertation. Hence prior knowledge of some research approaches at level 6 is normally expected. The research module is taken by students on a variety of award courses. Learning will usually be with a group of students who bring different academic and/or professional interests to their study, thus providing a community of collaborative learning well suited to interdisciplinary exploration.

• Module 6: Postgraduate Major Project

  The Dissertation is of central importance to the student's Masters Award during which the student will be expected to bring together aspects of learning from previous modules as well as using this learning as the basis for planning, conducting and writing up a research or work based project. This module will support students in the preparation and submission of a Masters Level Dissertation (either research projects or work-based project). There will be eight hours of workshop support available to students during this module. This will be delivered as four two-hour workshops. In addition, there will be a full-day Introductory Workshop before the module commences. Students will also be allocated a minimum of 6 hours of individual supervisory support with additional supervisory support negotiated with between the student and the supervisor.