FORENSIC MENTAL HEALTH
Postgraduate studies in Forensic Mental Health are available at Graduate Certificate and Graduate Diploma levels. The courses are offered externally and are designed to promote a multi-disciplinary perspective in a specialist area of mental health care. They offer a rigorous approach to contemporary Australia and international research and blend this with opportunities to develop advanced clinical skills.
Students who have been awarded the Graduate Certificate of Forensic Mental Health may use the credits to articulate into the Graduate Diploma of Forensic Mental Health.
Students will be required to surrender the Graduate Certificate before the Graduate Diploma is conferred.
GRADUATE CERTIFICATE OF FORENSIC MENTAL HEALTH
A candidate must complete the 12 units of subjects as listed below:
| NS5360:03 | Issues in Forensic Mental Health 1 |
| NS5361:03 | The Law, Social Policy and the Mentally Ill Offender |
| NS5362:03 | Issues in Forensic Mental Health 2 |
| NS5363:03 | Forensic Psychopathology and Psychotherapy 1 |
GRADUATE DIPLOMA OF FORENSIC MENTAL HEALTH
A candidate must complete the 24 units of subjects as listed below:
| NS5201:03 | Research: Theory and Methodology |
| NS5360:03 | Issues in Forensic Mental Health 1 |
| NS5361:03 | The Law, Social Policy and the Mentally Ill Offender |
| NS5362:03 | Issues in Forensic Mental Health 2 |
| NS5363:03 | Forensic Psychopathology and Psychotherapy 1 |
| NS5364:03 | Forensic Psychopathology and Psychotherapy 2 |
| NS5365:03 | Ethical Considerations in Forensic Mental Health |
| NS5366:03 | Practice Development Project |