Postgraduate MSc

Mental Health and Addiction

Explore the complex world of mental health and addiction related issues on this course. You'll learn to support, treat and improve the lives of service users.

Mental Health and Addiction

Course overview

  • Institution code


    L27
  • Main location


    City Campus
  • Attendance


    Full-Time
  • Duration


    12 Months
  • Start date


    21 Sep 2026

As part of this course, you'll:

  • Gain a robust understanding of the social, psychological and medical contexts of addiction and mental health practice
  • Develop your ability to recommend a combination of social and therapeutic evidence-based practices when working with people experiencing mental distress and addiction-related issues
  • Adopt a curious and critical outlook towards mental health and addiction policy and practice
  • Look beyond just substance use, exploring other addictive behaviours rooted in gambling, gaming and pornography
  • Evaluate new and evolving practices, interventions and treatments within mental health and addiction services
  • Build a research-informed, global outlook towards mental health and addiction practice, reflecting on this global context by connecting macro-critical theory to micro-practice
  • Consider the impact of globalisation on people with complex mental health and addiction needs


Develop your network

Learn via lectures, seminars and workshops that will develop your peer-learning networks. You'll be taught by experienced mental health practitioners and academic staff who will share their professional experience to enhance your learning.

Build transferable skills

You'll gain a range of in-demand transferable skills. Your deep understanding of this area of professional practice, coupled with your academic learning, will prime you to enter contemporary health and social care practice.

Why study the MSc Mental Health & Addiction course at Leeds Beckett University?

  1. Gain key transferable skills for a rewarding career in a contemporary health and social care sector
  2. Study a degree with significance as care for mental health and addiction service users becomes increasingly community-based
  3. Learn from research-active experts who have extensive experience in mental health provision and practice
  4. Explore new and emerging issues within global mental health and addiction practice, from psychedelic-based recovery and shamanism to ending the war on drugs
  5. Flexible study options – you can choose from either full or part-time study
     

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