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University of the Sunshine Coast (USC)

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Graduate Diploma in Mental Health and Neuroscience

  • Graduate Diploma

Deepen your mental health expertise. This diploma allows you to thrive as a mental health professional.

Key details

Degree Type
Graduate Diploma
Duration
1 year full-time
Course Code
AR602
Study Mode
Online
Domestic Fees
$20,937 total

About this course

Deepen your mental health expertise. This diploma allows you to thrive as a mental health professional. Building on the Graduate Certificate in Mental Health and Neuroscience, it focuses on society's most pressing mental health issues and provides insight to the neurobiology underpinning these conditions. Understand emerging technologies and methods to predict, diagnose and treat them.

In this program you will:

  • Study via USC's Thompson Institute, benefiting from an integration of world-class research, clinical services, education and advocacy
  • Gain knowledge in youth mental health, advanced neuroimaging, suicide prevention, brain ageing, neurocognition, lifestyle factors, and stress-related disorders, including PTSD
  • Study cutting-edge applied neuroscience, with the power to transform clinical practice across mental health disciplines

Entry requirements

To be considered for admission, candidates would normally be required to hold an undergraduate degree (AQF Level 7), or equivalent, from a recognised higher education institution in a relevant discipline, as determined by the Program Coordinator.

Examples of relevant disciplines include science, medical science, nursing, medicine, psychology, health science and pharmacy.

Additional entry information

Standard English language requirements apply.

Study locations

Online

Career pathways

Career opportunities
  • Apply mental health understanding in current career
  • Education
  • Emerging research fields
  • Mental health
  • Neuroscience
  • Pathways to higher degree research
  • Policy
  • Public Health
  • Working with vulnerable people
  • Working with young people

Graduate outcomes

Graduate satisfaction and employment outcomes for Health Services & Support courses at University of the Sunshine Coast (USC).
88%
Skill scale
88%
Teaching scale