18 monthsProgramme duration
27,800 AUDTuition Fee/year
Mar, May, Jul, SepStarting Month
Programme overview
Main Subject
Nursing
Degree
Other
Study Level
Masters
Study Mode
Online
You'll begin by broadening your understanding of mental health and its impact on individuals, families and communities. Build your critical thinking skills and discover how to effectively assess and diagnose mental illness. From there, you'll enhance your ability to make high-level clinical decisions and apply therapeutic interventions that meet the needs of mental health consumers.
You'll develop your communication skills to work effectively with colleagues, consumers, and their families. You'll examine a range of therapeutic approaches, including pharmacological and recovery-oriented therapies, working with people in crisis and using a problem-solving approach in the context of mental health care. Then, put your learning into your current clinical practice in your workplace.
Enjoy flexible learning that lets you fit your study around your work commitments. The course runs in four six-week terms across the year so you can focus on two subjects a semester. Additionally, if you need to exit early, you can still graduate with a Graduate Certificate in Mental Health if you complete four subjects, or the Graduate Diploma in Mental Health Nursing if you complete eight. Note a minimum requirement for specialisation and credentialing is the Graduate Diploma in Mental Health Nursing.
Graduate ready to create better health outcomes for individuals in a wide range of hospital and community settings.
You'll learn:
- Therapeutic skills - Learn how to make high level, independent clinical decisions and build the communication and interpersonal skills required for therapeutic interventions.
- Comprehensive mental health assessment - Develop comprehensive assessment and management skills and recognise the interrelationship between a person's medical, social, and psychological health.
- Mental health diagnosis - Critically examine psychopathology, mental health diagnosis and associated co-morbidities and enhance your ability to effectively assess and diagnose mental illness.
- Experiences and perceptions of mental illness - Explore the complexities that exercising choice and control poses for people with mental illness and build your expertise in areas such as supported decision making and recovery orientated practice.
Students will need to have satisfactory computer skills in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and online meeting programs such as Zoom. These platforms will be used throughout the course and in assessment tasks.
Programme overview
Main Subject
Nursing
Degree
Other
Study Level
Masters
Study Mode
Online
You'll begin by broadening your understanding of mental health and its impact on individuals, families and communities. Build your critical thinking skills and discover how to effectively assess and diagnose mental illness. From there, you'll enhance your ability to make high-level clinical decisions and apply therapeutic interventions that meet the needs of mental health consumers.
You'll develop your communication skills to work effectively with colleagues, consumers, and their families. You'll examine a range of therapeutic approaches, including pharmacological and recovery-oriented therapies, working with people in crisis and using a problem-solving approach in the context of mental health care. Then, put your learning into your current clinical practice in your workplace.
Enjoy flexible learning that lets you fit your study around your work commitments. The course runs in four six-week terms across the year so you can focus on two subjects a semester. Additionally, if you need to exit early, you can still graduate with a Graduate Certificate in Mental Health if you complete four subjects, or the Graduate Diploma in Mental Health Nursing if you complete eight. Note a minimum requirement for specialisation and credentialing is the Graduate Diploma in Mental Health Nursing.
Graduate ready to create better health outcomes for individuals in a wide range of hospital and community settings.
You'll learn:
- Therapeutic skills - Learn how to make high level, independent clinical decisions and build the communication and interpersonal skills required for therapeutic interventions.
- Comprehensive mental health assessment - Develop comprehensive assessment and management skills and recognise the interrelationship between a person's medical, social, and psychological health.
- Mental health diagnosis - Critically examine psychopathology, mental health diagnosis and associated co-morbidities and enhance your ability to effectively assess and diagnose mental illness.
- Experiences and perceptions of mental illness - Explore the complexities that exercising choice and control poses for people with mental illness and build your expertise in areas such as supported decision making and recovery orientated practice.
Students will need to have satisfactory computer skills in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and online meeting programs such as Zoom. These platforms will be used throughout the course and in assessment tasks.
Admission Requirements
Successful completion of an Australian bachelor's degree in Nursing (or equivalent).
Applicants must be working as a Division 1 Registered Nurse in mental health and hold a current practising certificate with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) with no restrictions to practice.
Specialisation - compulsory: Nursing
Note: Meeting minimum prerequisites does not guarantee an offer of a place. Entry into all La Trobe courses is based on competitive selection and there may be limited places available.
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