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.
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
- Starting
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Language
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Disciplines
Psychology View 21 other Short Courses in Psychology in AustraliaWhat students do after studying
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
- 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 Fee
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International
990 AUD/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 990 AUD for the full programme during 2 months. -
National
990 AUD/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 990 AUD for the full programme during 2 months.