Diploma of Mental Health

Diploma of Mental Health will teach you various mental health approaches and structures and valuable discipline knowledge.

Diploma in Mental Health

The Diploma in Mental Health in Australia is a professional accreditation concentrating on the talents mandated to overlook individuals with mental health matters.

Diploma of Mental Health

This diploma also provides candidates with the technical understanding, capabilities, and talents to take a leading role in delivering and corresponding mental health projects and assistance. This diploma contemplates the position of employees who deliver assistance to customers undergoing mental health conditions, and they may provide advocacy, counselling, referral, and teaching/health advertising benefits.

These employees must have professional understanding, talents and competencies, mainly considering rules affecting people with mental health problems, the scope of benefits known to them, and health problems linked to mental health.

Diploma Mental Health Entry Requirements

  • 18 years of age (Minimum) (exclusively international students)
  • Completion of Year 12 or Certificate III
  • An IELTS with 5.5 points overall, with no less than 5 points in each category.

Diploma Mental Health Fees

A$6,000 to A$12,000. The fee range can change from time to time.

Diploma Mental Health Course Duration

40 - 50 weeks Full time

Diploma Mental Health Intakes

January and July. Some colleges will offer April and October intakes as well.

Diploma Mental Health Career Opportunities

The skills and understanding of the mental health diploma help you to find employment with these titles:

  • Mental Health Support Worker
  • Mental Health Outreach Worker
  • Program Service Coordinator
  • Welfare Support Worker
  • Mental Health Rehabilitation Support Worker

Diploma Mental Health Pathways and Recognition of Prior Learning

  • Diploma of Community Service
  • Diploma of Counselling
  • Diploma of Youth Work
  • Bachelor of Mental Health
  • Bachelor of Community Welfare
  • Bachelor of Social Work
  • Bachelor of Health Science
  • Bachelor of Social Science

Diploma of Mental Health Core units

CHCADV005 Provide systems advocacy services

The unit explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to advocate and make sure that government, community, and organisational systems broadly support and uphold and human rights.

CHCDIV001 Collaborate with diverse people

The unit explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to collaborate respectfully with people from distinct social cultural teams and situations, involving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

CHCDIV002 Promote Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander cultural safety

The unit explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to recognise Aboriginal and or Torres Strait Islander cultural safety problems in the work area, model cultural safety in own work practice, and advance strategies to maximise cultural safety.

CHCMHS002 Establish self-directed recovery relationships

The unit explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to promote the principles of recovery-oriented practice, and to authorise, and determine self-directed recovery relationships with people with mental disease.

CHCMHS003 Provide recovery oriented mental health services

The unit explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to collaborate in providing services to implement a vast range of strategies as part of recovery-oriented service provision for people with mental disease.

CHCMHS004 Work with the care network and other services

The unit explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to work with the care network and other potential services for a person with mental disease. This work provides a recovery-oriented practice approach, including a variety of health and community service professionals collaborating with the person and their care network.

CHCMHS005 Provide services to people with co-existing mental health and alcohol and other drugs issues

The unit explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to evaluate capacity to support people with co-existing mental health and alcohol as well as other drugs problems and to collaborate to provide support and facilitate links to other services.

CHCMHS009 Provide early intervention, health prevention and promotion programs

The unit explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to advance and conduct early intervention, health prevention, and promotion programs focusing on mental health and wellbeing.

CHCMHS010 Implement recovery-oriented approaches to complexity

The unit explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to recognise and respond to problems of complexity when supporting people living with mental disease and their care networks. This unit is based on a strengths-based approach and acknowledges that complexity is not a characteristic of an individual. Complexity might be impacted by a vast range of interactions between the worker, the organisation, and the environmental context.

CHCMHS011 Assess and promote social, emotional, and physical wellbeing

The unit explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to collaborate with individuals to evaluate, promote, and review all aspects of wellbeing.

CHCMHS012 Provide support to advance wellness plans and developed directives

The unit explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to support a person living with mental disease to advance recovery wellness designs and advanced directives. These designs outline the person’s preferences and designs to maintain wellness and to direct actions and support strategies should they become unwell.

CHCMHS013 Implement trauma informed care

The unit explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to promote trauma informed care, and to advance strategies to address people’s specific trauma requirements. Trauma informed care includes providing services that are informed by the ability and understanding of the impact of trauma, in particular interpersonal abuse, and varying service practice to reduce the likelihood of re-traumatisation.

CHCPOL003 Research and apply evidence to practice

The unit explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to authorise the information required, gather information, and critically analyse the information for relevance to own work.

CHCPRP003 Reflect on and improve own professional practice

The unit explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to assess and maximise own practice through a procedure of reflection and ongoing professional advancement.

HLTWHS004 Manage work health and safety

The unit explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to authorise, maintain, and assess WHS polices, processes and programs in the relevant workplace, according to WHS congressional needs.

Diploma in Mental Health Elective units

CHCAOD001 Work in an alcohol and other drugs context

The unit explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to authorise and work within the current context, philosophy, and values of the AOD sector.

CHCAOD002 Collaborate with clients who are intoxicated

The unit explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to respond to the immediate and ongoing requirements of people intoxicated by alcohol and other drugs, with a focus on harm minimisation.

CHCAOD003 Provide needle and syringe services

The unit explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to confirm client requirements, provide clean needle, syringe services, and offer education on safer drug usage to clients.

CHCAOD004 Assess needs of clients with alcohol and other drugs issues

The unit explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to prepare for and conduct evaluation of AOD clients to confirm eligibility, service needs, and referral requirements. This involves ability of factors affecting evaluation for a vast range of different client teams involving different genders, youth, older people, mandated, and voluntary clients, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and those from culturally and linguistically distinct backgrounds.

CHCAOD005 Provide alcohol and other drugs withdrawal services

The unit explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to provide support and assistance to people going through the procedure of withdrawing from alcohol, tobacco, or other drugs, involving combinations of these.

CHCAOD006 Provide interventions for people with alcohol and other drugs issues

The unit explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to determine, conduct, and monitor intervention strategies to address the AOD problems.

CHCAOD007 Develop strategies for alcohol and other drugs relapse prevention and management

The unit explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to collaborate with stakeholders to advance strategies for preventing and overseeing relapse, should it happen, as well as ways to deal efficiently with potentially harmful behaviour.

CHCAOD008 Provide advanced interventions to meet the needs of clients with alcohol and other drugs issues

The unit explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to plan, implement, and monitor ongoing therapeutic interventions drawing on evidence informed models and methods. It includes holistic consideration of all client requirements, and collaboration with other services.

CHCAOD009 Develop and review individual alcohol and other drugs treatment plans

The unit explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to collaborate with clients to authorise treatment goals, and to advance and assess individual treatment plans to meet those goals.

CHCCCS017 Provide loss and grief support

The unit explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to identify as well as respond to the requirements of people who are experiencing loss, grief, and bereavement.

CHCCCS018 Provide suicide bereavement support

The unit explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to provide support for individuals who are experiencing bereavement in relation to suicide.

CHCCDE004 Implement participation and engagement strategies

The unit explains the achievement outcomes, abilities as well as the talents needed to collaborate with individuals and teams in specific community teams and support their engagement in making decisions that affect their lives.

CHCCDE006 Work to empower Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander communities

The unit explains the achievement outcomes, abilities as well as the talents needed to collaborate with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community clinics or in mainstream services that empower that community.

CHCCSL001 Establish and confirm the counselling relationship

The unit explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to use a structured approach to counselling to confirm, authorise, and determine the nature of the counsellor client relationship according to the agency’s counselling model.

CHCCSL003 Facilitate the counselling relationship and process

The unit explains the abilities as well as the talents to support clients to recognise and work through concerns, and to administrate the overall counselling procedure to its conclusion.

CHCCSL007 Support counselling clients in decision-making processes

The unit explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to assist clients to clarify their goals, explore options, and advance a course of action.

CHCCSM004 Coordinate complex case requirements

The unit explains the achievement outcomes, abilities as well as the talents needed to coordinate multiple service needs for people with complicated requirements within a case administration framework.

CHCDFV006 Counsel clients affected by domestic and family violence

The unit explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to use counselling and facilitation talents to explore client problems and recognise viable options by providing a safe and supportive environment. It involves encouraging clients to be actively included in seeking their own solutions.

CHCEDU001 Provide community focused health promotion and prevention strategies

The unit explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to deliver a vast range of promotion and prevention strategies to the community.

CHCGMB001 Test the requirements of clients with problem gambling issues

The unit explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to evaluate the requirements of clients affected by problem gambling and advance case plans for the delivery of problem gambling counselling services.

CHCGMB002 Provide counselling for clients with problem gambling issues

The unit explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to provide and monitor support, counselling, and interventions for clients affected by problem gambling. Counsellors provide support and review goals and strategies using a comprehensive approach to authorise and maintain change in the gambling activity, and as well as looking at the reasons underlying and contributing to the problem.

CHCINM001 Meet statutory and organisation information requirements

The unit explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to ensure efficiency and effectiveness of the organisation’s information system.

CHCLLN001 Respond to client language, literacy, and numeracy needs

The unit explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to recognise situations where client language, LLN talents may be impeding access to services, to adjust service delivery, and to refer appropriately to improve client outcomes.

CHCMGT001 Develop, implement, and review quality framework

The unit explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to advance, implement, and monitor a framework for ongoing quality service delivery that supports the rights and interests of clients.

CHCMGT002 Manage partnership agreements with services providers

The unit explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to authorise and monitor formal agreements and partnerships with specialist support providers to meet client requirements.

CHCMHS006 Facilitate the recovery procedure with the person, family, and carers

The unit explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to collaborate with a person with mental illness or AOD problems to authorise a basis for participation of family and carers in their individual recovery procedure and to facilitate ongoing participation in line with the person’s requirements and wishes.

CHCPRP001 Develop and maintain networks and collaborative partnerships

The unit explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to recognise networking and collaboration requirements and advance formal as well as informal partnerships to maximise service delivery and improve professional practice.

CHCPWK006 Promote and conduct mental health peer work

The unit explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to promote peer work and conduct peer worker planning, recruitment, and support.

CHCSOH002 Manage and maintain tenancy agreements and services

The unit explains the achievement outcomes, abilities as well as the talents needed to administrate tenancy agreements and associated housing services.

CHCSOH008 Manage head lease

The unit explains the achievement outcomes, abilities as well as the talents needed to recognise, acquire, and administrate properties head leased from the private rental market.

CHCSOH009 Develop quality systems in line with registration standards

The unit explains the achievement outcomes, abilities as well as the talents needed to advance policies and processes for a social housing organisation in line with Commonwealth and Territory registration standards. It involves the advancement of continuous improvement procedures to uphold compliance, probity, and quality.

CHCVOL003 Recruit, induct and support volunteers

The unit explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to recruit, orientate, advance, and support volunteer workers in an agency, service, or program. Workers at this level will be responsible for the ongoing coordination as well as supervision of volunteers who might be working in a vast range of contexts.

HLTAAP001 Recognise healthy body systems

The unit explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to work with basic information about the human body and to identify as well as promote ways to maintain healthy functioning of the body.

HLTHPS006 Assist clients with medication

The unit explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to prepare for, provide medication assistance, and finish medication documentation. It also includes supporting a client to self-manage medication.

HLTHPS010 Interpret and use information about nutrition and diet

The unit explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to interpret and use basic information about nutritional principles and health diet. It does not involve the provision of therapeutic nutritional or dietary advice to individual clients or the recommendation of ‘practitioner’ only nutritional products.

HLTWHS006 Manage personal stressors in the work environment

The unit explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to maintain health and wellbeing by preventing and managing personal stress.

BSBFIM501 Manage budgets and financial plans

The unit explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to undertake monetary management in an organisation or workplace. It involves planning and implement monetary management approaches and supporting and assessing effectiveness of monetary management procedures.

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