Psychology
Here you will find a wide range of Unit Award Scheme (UAS) units for psychology.
We've organised the units into categories relating to different career/degree pathways. Some of the categories include: clinical psychology, education, criminology, sports psychology, research methods, and topics in psychology.
The units can be used to support a wide range of activities within your centre, including:
- super-curricular activities
- UCAS and job applications
- transition activities (supporting students as they prepare for the next step in their educational journey)
- enrichment activities
- group tutorial sessions
- short 'Introduction to psychology' courses
- psychology taster sessions
- psychology clubs.
Students will receive a certificate each time they complete a unit. By recognising their achievements in this way, the scheme allows students to engage with learning and take clear steps towards success.
Careers in psychology
These units will help students to explore topics related to specific career pathways in psychology.
Clinical psychology
| UAS unit title | UAS unit code |
|---|---|
Personality disorders | |
Psychopathology |
Counselling / therapeutic psychology
| UAS unit title | UAS unit code |
|---|---|
Working with young people using Egan's theories and one to one work | |
Counselling children and creative approaches | |
Child psychology: survival responses | |
Alfred Adler: the foundation of psychotherapeutic mentoring | |
Working with young people using neuro linguistic programming | |
Understanding developmental trauma in young people | |
Bereavement and culture | |
Understanding the need for self-awareness | |
Exploring good mental health | |
Helping to design a youth mental health cafe provision | |
Mental wellbeing first aider (MWFA): facilitator and assessor | |
The fear project (unit 2): understanding cognitive schemas | |
The fear project (unit 3): practically applying knowledge about fear | |
The fear project (unit 4): self-sabotage and self-control | |
The fear project (unit 5): learning resilience and self-monitoring | |
The fear project (unit 6): building resilience to psychological fear | |
Understanding emotions | |
The chimp theory of mind management (unit 1) | |
The chimp theory of mind management (unit 2) | |
The chimp theory of mind management (unit 3) | |
Comfort zones | |
Health and wellbeing for young people (unit 4): mental health and wellbeing | |
Holistic mentoring: the relationship between body, soul and spirit | |
Mental wellbeing | |
Working with young people: understanding attachment and trauma |
Criminology
| UAS unit title | UAS unit code |
|---|---|
Introduction to forensic psychology | |
Forensic psychology - criminal profiling | |
Forensic psychology - decision making process and consequences of crime | |
Forensic psychology - witnessing a crime |
Education
| UAS unit title | UAS unit code |
|---|---|
Understanding the development of a child up to 5 years old | |
Introduction to play and playwork | |
Structured teaching for individuals with autism | |
Structured teaching for individuals with autism | |
Role of the pre-school setting and children with autism | |
Schedules and activity systems for a child with autism | |
Understanding special educational needs in children and young people in schools | |
Being a session leader and instructor's assistant | |
Managing conflict in young people | |
Working with young people using groupwork | |
Working with young people (unit 1): building working relationships | |
Working with young people managing aggressive behaviour | |
Helping to design a youth mental health cafe provision | |
Psychology of learning disabilities | 120753 |
Strengths-based approaches to neurodiversity | |
Sensory processing in the classroom | 120755 |
Cross-cultural perspectives on special education | 120756 |
Sports psychology
| UAS unit title | UAS unit code |
|---|---|
Psychology of performance (unit 2): practice makes perfect | |
Psychology of performance (unit 1): why do we have nerves | |
Sport and the mind (unit 1) | |
Sport and the mind (unit 2) | |
Sport and the mind (unit 3) |
Working with young people
| UAS unit title | UAS unit code |
|---|---|
Completing work experience in a youth centre | |
Practice in youth work: building relationships | |
Working with young people using group work | |
Working with young people managing aggressive behaviour | |
Working with young people and advocacy | |
Volunteering practice in youth work: building relationships | |
Developing youth work skills | |
Youth leadership in a school or youth organisation | |
Young workers: introduction to youth work (unit 3) | |
Comfort zones | |
Grooming, county lines and gangs |
Topics in psychology
| UAS unit title | UAS unit code |
|---|---|
Introduction to psychology | |
Introduction to basic psychology | |
Introduction to psychology |
Approaches in psychology
| UAS unit title | UAS unit code |
|---|---|
Introduction to the behaviourist approach | |
Introduction to the psychodynamic approach | |
Introduction to the cognitive approach | |
Introduction to the humanist approach | |
Biopsychology | |
Maslow's hierarchy of needs (level one) | |
Maslow's hierarchy of needs (level three) |
Cognitive psychology
| UAS unit title | UAS unit code |
|---|---|
Introduction to cognitive psychology | |
Psychology: models of memory | |
Psychology and neuroscience for young academics (unit 1) | |
Psychology and neuroscience for young academics (unit 2) | |
Psychology and neuroscience for young academics (unit 3) | |
Psychology and neuroscience for young academics (unit 4) | |
Psychology and neuroscience for young academics (unit 5) |
Mathematical skills
| UAS unit title | UAS unit code |
|---|---|
Introduction to statistics (unit 1) | |
Statistics: collecting and representing data (unit 2) | |
Analysis of data: cumulative frequency graphs | |
Cumulative frequency graphs | |
Analysis of data: box and whisker plots | |
Analysis of data: data sampling | |
Maths: handling information and data | |
Data presentation and interpretation | |
Employability skills: mathematics | |
Mathematics: number and its application |
Personality
| UAS unit title | UAS unit code |
|---|---|
Personality types, temperaments and learning styles (level one) | |
Personality types, temperaments and learning styles (level two) | |
Personality types, temperaments and learning styles (level three) |
Research methods
| UAS unit title | UAS unit code |
|---|---|
Conducting a psychological research study | |
Introduction to social research | |
Undertaking social research | |
Introduction to social research (unit 2) | |
Introduction to social research (unit 3) | |
Ethics and safe practice in social research | |
Reflective practice in research |
Social psychology
| UAS unit title | UAS unit code |
|---|---|
Introduction to social psychology | |
Social influence (unit 1): conformity | |
Social influence (unit 2): obedience |
Equality, diversity and inclusion
UAS unit title | UAS unit code |
|---|---|
Gender bias in psychology: the importance of representation | |
Gender bias in psychology: androcentrism awareness | |
Exploring culture bias in psychology | |
Culture bias in psychology: examining the APA apology | |
Disability awareness | |
Anti-oppressive practice: lesbian, gay, bi-sexual equality | |
Introduction to diversity, prejudice and discrimination | |
Implicit bias and anti-racist action (unit 1) | |
Implicit bias and anti-racist action (unit 2) | |
Implicit bias and anti-racist action (unit 3) | |
Implicit bias and anti-racist action (unit 4) | |
Working across cultures | |
Positive futures (unit 4): celebrating difference |
Health
UAS unit title | UAS unit code |
|---|---|
Psychological theories of sustaining healthy behaviour change | |
Socio-economic determinants of health | |
Health literacy strategies for marginalised groups | |
Cultural competence in health education | |
The psychological aspects of pain and the reduction of pain perception | |
Behavioural medicine | |
Psychoneuroimmunology: the interaction between the mind, brain, and immune system |
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