Extend your scope of practice and gain essential strategies to respond effectively to people experiencing social and emotional distress.

Registration requirements

This micro-credential will equip you with focused psychological strategies and the confidence to respond to these issues appropriately and effectively.

You will gain practical skills to conduct brief assessments and interventions during routine healthcare, to better support patients or clients.

These skills will include competence in cognitive behaviour strategies for brief interventions with people experiencing a high prevalence of mental health issues and social distress that impact their health and well-being.

Learning in this course is equivalent to Level 8 of the Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF).

This micro-credential runs for six weeks. Your total time commitment is approximately 42 hours, which includes:

• 10 hours guided learning
• 8 hours peer learning
• 12 hours independent study
• 12 hours for assessment tasks.

Assessment:

• Psychosocial assessment of a case scenario (40%)
• Planning an intervention for a client (60%).

 At the conclusion of this course, you will be able to:

• Understand and apply cognitive behavioural strategies

• Have the confidence to conduct psychosocial assessments

• Develop effective intervention plans

• Understand the Better Access initiative and Medicare items