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Off-Campus Learning Guide 2005
Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

Graduate Diploma in Child Psychotherapy Studies

Course code: 2281 + Off-campus (Department of Psychological Medicine, Austin and Repatriation Medical Centre, Repatriation campus) + Full-fee-paying course: $TBC (Australian residents); $12,000 (international students)

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. The course does not provide specialist clinical training.

Entry requirements

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.

Attendance

One compulsory residential school for two or three days each year.

Course structure

The course can be completed in one-year full-time or two years part-time.

Year 1
Semester 1
Semester 2
Year 2
Semester 1
Semester 2

Assessment

Assessment consists of regular and final assignments, interactive assessments as well as residential workshop.

Further information

For more information, contact the course coordinator, Mrs Jeanette Beaufoy, telephone +61 3 9496 4118, fax +61 3 9499 9120 or email childpsychotherapy@med.monash.edu.au.

Completed applications

Completed applications are to be forwarded to Mrs Jeanette Beaufoy, c/- Postgraduate Child Psychiatry Training Department, Building 36, Repatriation Campus, Austin and Repatriation Medical Centre, Waterdale Road, Heidelberg 3084, Australia.

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