Postgraduate Diploma of Social Health and Counselling
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Overview
This diploma will equip you with a broad knowledge and understanding of the personal and social contexts within which social health issues arise and are maintained, the impact of social health issues, and the current responses to these phenomena. You will develop a critical appreciation of the variety of preventative strategies, and a basic competence in developing and implementing such strategies, together with knowledge of the variety of current treatment approaches and goals, and of their relationship to current social health practices.
Key features
- You should have achieved the basic competencies of the Postgraduate Certificate of Social Health and Counselling.
- This diploma will further develop your skills with training in the intervention approaches of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Narrative and the application of these skills to a range of areas including grief and loss, mediation, trauma and mental health problems.
- Multidisciplinary program provides a socio-cultural analysis on physical and psychological health including illness prevention, health promotion, identification, crisis intervention, individual and community interventions, and relapse prevention.
Minimum course duration
1 year
Location
North Ryde
Suitable for
Suitable if you are an Allied Health professional or frontline worker, counsellor or case worker.
HECS Course fee
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Entry requirements
Bachelor degree in a related field or Postgraduate Certificate in Social Health & Counselling. You will be subject to competitive selection based on an interview process.
English language requirements
If you have completed the NSW HSC or equivalent you satisfy the English proficiency requirements.
For full information view the English proficiency requirements table (436 Kb).
Work experience requirements
Work experience in the field is encouraged during study so you can put into practice the knowledge and skills you are gaining during the course.
Notes:
A minimum of a credit or above per unit is required if you wish to credit units in this diploma to the Master of Social Health and Counselling. Applications for the Master's program are competitive.
The Social Health & Counselling Program courses are not designed to be a direct entry qualification to any other post-graduate programs.
The Social Health & Counselling Program does not lead to registration as a Psychologist. If you wish to gain membership to allied professional associations, you will need to meet the criteria relevant to registration in those associations.
What you will study
| General requirements | Credit Points |
|---|---|
| Minimum number of credit points required at 800 level or above | 32 |
| Completion of other specific minimum requirements as set out below |
Specific requirements
The following outlines the units (subjects) to be studied within this diploma
| 800 level or above | Credit Points | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Required | PSYS834 | Counselling and Professional Practice | 4 | ||
| Required | 28cp from | PSYS803 | Working with Groups | ||
| PSYS805 | Narrative Approaches to Social Health | ||||
| PSYS812 | Cognitive Behavioural Approaches | ||||
| PSYS813 | Child Abuse and Neglect | ||||
| PSYS823 | Working with Children | ||||
| PSYS824 | Drugs and Social Health I (Context and Effects) | ||||
| PSYS825 | Drugs and Social Health II (Interventions) | ||||
| PSYS829 | Narrative and Community Interventions | ||||
| PSYS830 | Trauma: Legacies and Interventions | ||||
| PSYS831 | Advanced Counselling | ||||
| PSYS832 | Invitations to Responsibility | ||||
| PSYS833 | Social Health Perspectives | ||||
| PSYS841 | Contemporary Issues in Social Health | ||||
| PSYS842 | Supervised Practical Placement | 28 | |||
| Total credit points required to satisfy this diploma | 32 | ||||
Notes
- The course information contained on this page is applicable for 2012 ONLY.
For more information please read the courses disclaimer.
Careers
Career Opportunities
Counselling work in areas of drug and alcohol problems, prisons, child protection, indigenous health, general counselling and trauma.
