Course Level
Graduate Diploma
Graduate Diploma of Health (Perinatal and Infant Mental Health)
This course will equip you with the knowledge and skills to understand, educate and support families experiencing mental health difficulties within the first twelve months following childbirth. Explore intermediary and complex understandings of infant and mother perinatal mental health, combining the study of the mothers (family) mental health and the infants mental health. Clinical support and collaboration with other mental health and interdisciplinary health professionals will play a vital role in building foundation skills to identify, screen, treat and manage mental health conditions in the perinatal period as well as better understand the normal adjustment to pregnancy and infant development.
Campus | Duration | Fees | ATAR |
|---|---|---|---|
Mount Helen (Ballarat) | Flexible Delivery - 1 years | N/A | N/A |
Structure
120 credit points over 1 year.
Subjects
- Perinatal and infant mental health, Advanced perinatal and infant mental health.
Entry requirements
- This course is open to students who are successful graduates of Bachelor level studies (or equivalent) in a cognate discipline.
Related Courses
Master of Health (Perinatal and Infant Mental Health)
Federation University Australia
Graduate Certificate in Perinatal Mental Health (ICMH)
University of South Australia
Graduate Diploma of Mental Health
The University of Notre Dame Australia
