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Overview
What you will study
As a health, allied health or nursing practitioner, you'll be familiar with the mental health issues and social distress frequently experienced by people treated in the health care system.
This Focused Psychological Strategies Essentials course offered by University of Melbourne will equip you with focused psychological strategies and the confidence to respond to these issues appropriately and effectively.
You will gain practical skills to conduct brief assessments and interventions during routine healthcare, to better support patients or clients.
These skills will include competence in cognitive behaviour strategies for brief interventions with people experiencing a high prevalence of mental health issues and social distress that impact their health and well-being.
Learning outcome
By the end of this course, you'll be able to:
- Perform a psychosocial assessment of a client, using knowledge of interviewing techniques and effective assessment strategies
- Plan an effective intervention for clients, which demonstrates insights gained about the Better Access initiative and practical knowledge of appropriate, client-centred activity planning and effective intervention strategies.
Programme Structure
The program focuses on:
- Understand and apply cognitive behavioural strategies
- Gain the confidence to conduct psychosocial assessments
- Develop effective intervention plans
- Understand the Better Access initiative and Medicare items
Key information
Duration
- Part-time
- 2 months
Start dates & application deadlines
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More details
- Upcoming dates for this course are yet to be announced.
Language
English
Delivered
Online
Campus Location
- Melbourne, Australia
Disciplines
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Academic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Other requirements
General requirements
- CRICOS: 00116K
- This micro-credential is ideal for nurses, mental health nurses, social workers, allied health workers, and general practitioners.
- To undertake this course, you need to have an undergraduate degree in allied health, nursing, psychology, paramedicine, or medicine.
- You should also currently have a health or allied health role within a clinical or community setting, with the ability to conduct brief assessments and interventions.
Tuition Fees
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International Applies to you
Applies to youNon-residents990 AUD / full≈ 990 AUD / full -
Domestic Applies to you
Applies to youCitizens or residents990 AUD / full≈ 990 AUD / full
Funding
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