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Graduate Diploma in Youth Mental Health (GD-YMH) // Attributes, outcomes and skills
About this course
Contact
Melbourne Medical School
Currently enrolled students:
- Contact Stop 1
- General information: https://ask.unimelb.edu.au
Coordinator
Dr Paul Badcock
Professional accreditation
The program is recognized by professional bodies, e.g., Australian Association of Social Workers, Australian Psychological Society, Royal College of Nursing, and Australian College of Mental Health Nurses as fulfilling professional development (continuing education) requirements.
Intended learning outcomes
By the conclusion of the graduate diploma students will have developed the following areas of knowledge:
- The major theories of development spanning the transition from adolescence to adulthood
- Recent advances in the preventative models of psychiatry as applicable to young people
- Recent advances in the biological assessment and treatment of serious mental illness in young people
- Optimal organisation and management approaches for the provision of services to young clients with serious mental illness
In addition, students will be able to apply the following skills in working with young people:
- Design community awareness interventions focusing upon early detection and referral of young people to mental health services
- Assess the early signs of a range of serious mental illnesses in young people
- Design comprehensive treatment plans which are applicable to the early stages of serious mental illness and sensitive to the developmental tasks facing young clients of mental health services
- Apply psychosocial interventions in the treatment of primary and secondary morbidity across a range of serious mental illessesses affecting young people and their families
- Match optimal approaches to the treatment of young people to impatient, community-based and home-based approaches
Graduate attributes
This course provides professional development for practitioners who are currently working with young people who have the intention of pursuing a career in youth mental health practice.
Last updated: 18 December 2020