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).

 

Understand and apply cognitive behavioural strategies

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.