Master of Mental Health

The Master of Mental Health aims to expand allied health clinicians' knowledge and skills in mental health practice and leadership through evidence-based knowledge and practice. Students have the option to pursue a project stream or a research stream within this course. As such, they may complete either a project and two elective subjects, or complete a research dissertation in their final semester.

Both streams consolidate learning from the Graduate Certificate in Mental Health and Graduate Diploma in Mental Health in research, specialist clinical skills and knowledge as well as clinical leadership.

The first 40 credit points of the course consist of units in the Graduate Certificate in Mental Health; the second 40 credit points of this course are derived from the Graduate Diploma in Mental Health and the final 40 credit points consist of either project or research stream units.

Commonwealth Supported Places are available for this course. See the Courses costs section below, under Fees.

Graduates will be able to apply their theoretical and practical learning in a range of mental health settings.

Examples of potential employment settings include:

• public and private health care organisations
• child and adolescent, adult and older person mental health services
• acute, community, rehabilitation and long term care focused settings
• local, state and commonwealth government policy
• consumer and carer groups
• mental health based research

Examples of potential employment roles include:

• clinician
• case manager/worker
• team leader
• service manager
• triage manager
• psychiatric consultation and liaison nurse
• nurse practitioner