Q:Do you feel like the Graduate Diploma of Mental Health has broadened your opportunities within your field?
“It’s absolutely broadened my opportunities, in fact - it’s sort of steered me down a path that I wasn’t originally heading down.”
Gain the skills to be well-rounded mental health professional with the ability to work in a variety of mental health roles.
Learn from clinically active academics and gain a contemporary understanding of emerging trends in mental health care.
Develop skills through evidence-based theories and knowledge that can be applied immediately in practice or hospital setting.
The units that form part of the online postgraduate courses in mental health have been designed to develop the skills required to effectively respond to challenges across a diverse range of mental health fields. You will learn to enhance your own practice, with the most up-to-date and clinically relevant knowledge embedded throughout the coursework. To gain your Graduate Diploma of Mental Health, you will study 8 core units listed below.
This unit will expose you to critical exploration and practical application of the core contexts of mental health within the Australian healthcare system.
This unit emphasises the life stage and bio-psycho-social contexts specifically related to providing effective engagement and interventions with children, adolescents and older persons.
This unit explores the varied roles of a mental health professional in the 21st century.
This unit explores the experiences of people with complex mental health presentations, co-morbidity and risk behaviours.
Develop a deeper knowledge of psychological approaches and models of understanding that influence a consumer taking constructive change that supports recovery.
In this unit, you will reflect on your own professional practice and learning, planning strategies to collect, select and reflect on evidence to include in a professional portfolio.
This unit introduces you to an evidence-based approach to health practice.
Enhance understanding and capability of mental health to ensure patient physical health needs are being addressed within holistic mental health assessment, diagnosis and interventions.
The units completed from the Graduate Diploma offer as a pathway into the Master of Mental Health.
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Q:Do you feel like the Graduate Diploma of Mental Health has broadened your opportunities within your field?
“It’s absolutely broadened my opportunities, in fact - it’s sort of steered me down a path that I wasn’t originally heading down.”
Q:Is there anything you’d like to share about your experience with SCU Online or the Graduate Diploma of Mental Health?
“I honestly found studying this course, and studying in this format really positive and I found that all of the learning facilitators and the people who were coordinating the course were so supportive, so helpful, always really responsive.”
Q:Why did you choose to study the Graduate Diploma of Mental Health?
“It just seemed like a really good opportunity to get back and do some learning. I chose this particular course because I felt like I needed to reconnect with that side of mental health.”
Q:What are your career ambitions after completing the Graduate Diploma of Mental Health?
““Having just completed my postgrad, I’m now actually preparing a PhD proposal - so that’s going to be the next step. I feel really excited about the next few years and where that might take me.”
Q:What were some of your favourite units in the Graduate Diploma of Mental Health?
“Every unit that I did was a little bit different and challenged me in different ways. I thought the unit on acute mental health was really interesting. It showed me that side of the mental health system and how it works, posing some questions around how we can improve that area of mental health.”
Our students work in a variety of mental health roles across Australia in both public and private healthcare. The study builds your capabilities to provide appropriate mental health care and will set you up to work in a range of community and healthcare settings. Below are some of the roles our mental health master's students work in.