Course overview
Get work-ready in 3 years! Do you want to pursue a career in mental health? Our new, double major degree provides an immersive learning experience to get you workplace-ready faster.
Our program focuses solely on mental health curriculum, which means you won’t need to study units that are not relevant to your future career. The course develops the skills, knowledge and personal capacities required for critically reflective, ethically aware professional practice. The course takes a trauma-informed, person-centred perspective. Students will explore counselling and psychological theories, counselling skills, ethics, social psychology and foundational principles in cognition and neuroscience. Skills in assessment, intervention and treatment planning will be developed. The curriculum also allows students to explore organisational behaviour and group facilitation skills. The program has a third year counselling placement where you will gain experience working with real clients.
Course record
Career Opportunities
This course is APAC accredited and forms the first three years of your journey towards becoming a psychologist. Graduates of this degree may continue on to do further studies in psychology, or apply for individual membership of the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA), which (if successful) enables registration as a counsellor with the Australian Register of Counselling and Psychotherapists (ARCAP).
Majors
Counselling, Psychology.
Entry requirements
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Standard entry
- Current Year 12 graduates Bridging and enabling courses Applicants who are under 21 and do not meet ATAR requirements may be considered on the basis of other life and work experience, including successful completion of a bridging or enabling course e.g. Foundation course or equivalent. SEAS (Special Entry Access Scheme) Applicants who have experienced educational disadvantage are encouraged to apply for the Special Entry Access Scheme (SEAS). Depending on eligibility and your circumstances, a SEAS application may provide support for your course application. For further information go to Cairnmillar Institute SEAS information and the Cairnmillar Institute website Recent Year 12 graduates Bridging and enabling courses Applicants who are under 21 and do not meet ATAR requirements may be considered on the basis of other life and work experience, including successful completion of a bridging or enabling course e.g. Foundation course or equivalent. SEAS (Special Entry Access Scheme) Applicants who have experienced educational disadvantage are encouraged to apply for the Special Entry Access Scheme (SEAS). Depending on eligibility and your circumstances, a SEAS application may provide support for your course application. For further information go to Cairnmillar Institute SEAS information and the Cairnmillar Institute website Applicants with Higher Education study Bridging and enabling courses Applicants who are under 21 and do not meet ATAR requirements may be considered on the basis of other life and work experience, including successful completion of a bridging or enabling course e.g. Foundation course or equivalent. SEAS (Special Entry Access Scheme) Applicants who have experienced educational disadvantage are encouraged to apply for the Special Entry Access Scheme (SEAS). Depending on eligibility and your circumstances, a SEAS application may provide support for your course application. For further information go to Cairnmillar Institute SEAS information and the Cairnmillar Institute website Applicants with VET study Bridging and enabling courses Applicants who are under 21 and do not meet ATAR requirements may be considered on the basis of other life and work experience, including successful completion of a bridging or enabling course e.g. Foundation course or equivalent. SEAS (Special Entry Access Scheme) Applicants who have experienced educational disadvantage are encouraged to apply for the Special Entry Access Scheme (SEAS). Depending on eligibility and your circumstances, a SEAS application may provide support for your course application. For further information go to Cairnmillar Institute SEAS information and the Cairnmillar Institute website Applicants with work and life experience Bridging and enabling courses Applicants who are under 21 and do not meet ATAR requirements may be considered on the basis of other life and work experience, including successful completion of a bridging or enabling course e.g. Foundation course or equivalent. SEAS (Special Entry Access Scheme) Applicants who have experienced educational disadvantage are encouraged to apply for the Special Entry Access Scheme (SEAS). Depending on eligibility and your circumstances, a SEAS application may provide support for your course application. For further information go to Cairnmillar Institute SEAS information and the Cairnmillar Institute website
Student profile
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Campuses & intake dates
- Hawthorn EastVIC