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Extend your scope of practice and gain essential strategies to respond effectively to people experiencing social and emotional distress. Develop in-demand skills, learn from leading experts, and earn a shareable digital certificate.
Extend your scope of practice and gain essential strategies to respond effectively to people experiencing social and emotional distress.
Level up with micro-credentialsIndustry-ready skillsDevelop in-demand skills aligned with industry best practice you can apply immediately.
Taught by leading expertsLearn from internationally recognised academics and professionals with years of on the ground experience.
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To undertake this course, you need to have an undergraduate degree in allied health, nursing, psychology, paramedicine, or medicine. You should also currently have a health or allied health role within a clinical or community setting, with the ability to conduct brief assessments and interventions.
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As a health, allied health or nursing practitioner, you'll be familiar with the mental health issues and social distress frequently experienced by people treated in the health care system.
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).
Explore the effects of social distress to better understand and identify the ongoing physical and emotional impacts it can have. You'll learn to implement cognitive behavioural strategies that can be used for brief interventions with your patients or clients.
Understand key techniques in psychosocial assessment to identify a client's challenges. You'll analyse a 'real-world' case study, deliver an assessment based on your findings, and enhance your evidence-based interviewing skills to motivate behaviour change, learning to apply these principles in an online context.
Learn how to better support your patients or clients in activity planning and problem-solving. Gain the skills needed to produce intervention plans that use appropriate, client-centered activity planning and effective intervention strategies.
Explore the key features of the Australian Government's Better Access initiative to understand how you can help clients or patients access the relevant Medicare support. Use this knowledge to strengthen your assessments and intervention plans.
This micro-credential runs for six weeks. Your total time commitment is approximately 42 hours, which includes:
Assessment:
Once you've successfully completed this course, you will be awarded your Melbourne MicroCert. This digital certificate will warrant the achievement of knowledge, skills and capabilities outlined in the learning outcomes. It may also include artefacts (such as videos and written material) related to both experiential and work-integrated learning, including translatable assessment that is practical to your professional life. You can also share your Melbourne MicroCert digitally and via social media by adding it to your personal platforms, such as LinkedIn. See example certificate.