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Graduate Diploma in Child Psychotherapy Studies


General information

This course, offered by the Department of Psychological Medicine, is conducted via distance education on a part-time basis over two years. The course is directed primarily towards health, welfare and education professionals working with children and adolescents with emotional and behavioural problems and who wish to upgrade and develop their skills and understanding in the area. It aims to increase the participants' knowledge of psychoanalytic and developmental theory and the application of these to the treatment of children and adolescents with psychological difficulties, and to consider how this knowledge may be applied in their own workplace. This course does not provide specialist clinical training.
Applicants must have a medical degree, a degree in the health sciences, a degree with a psychology major or an education degree at a pass level from an approved tertiary institution, or qualifications and/or experience which are equivalent.

Course structure

First year
Second year

Assessment

Assessment will comprise regular and final assignments and interactive assessment via the residential workshop.

Inquiries

Inquiries should be directed to Ms J Beaufoy, c/- Postgraduate Child Psychiatry Training (Vic.), Austin Repatriation Medical Centre (Repatriation Campus), Building 36, Waterdale Road, Heidelberg, Victoria 3084. Telephone (03) 9496 4118 or email jeanette.beaufoy@med.monash.edu.au

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