Course results for Postgraduate Psychology & mental health Degrees

Expand your skills and build your leadership. Engage in study through evidence-based learning and practice. Conceptualise new and creative approaches to mental health practice. Support service delivery in culturally diverse contexts.

Explore psychological theory and research. Unpack the links between personality and behaviour, and how people change with age. You’ll build academic skills in analysis and communication—use them in the workplace or apply them to further studies.

After studying how people behave and think, you’ll be able to pursue employment pathways including communications, marketing, HR, and mental health. Explore psychological perspectives with practicing industry professionals and RMIT’s expert academics.

Add a formal postgraduate mental health qualification to your skill set. You’ll cover current mental health perspectives and practices. Build leadership skills. Intervene and support people in their recovery from mental illness.

Explore the principles, theories, and ethics that underpin contemporary psychology. Topics include mental processes, psychological disorders, and more. Careers include community work, counselling, human services, market research, and welfare.

Practice a wide range of skills, support continued resilience and facilitate effective communication across varied contexts in a holistic, supervised environment. Graduates qualify for membership with the Australian Counselling Association.

Prepare for mental health leadership. Learn from academics working in the field to hone your skills in mental health and psychology. Make care decisions in the community, non-government and private settings.

Become a highly valued forensic mental health specialist able to practise at an advanced level. Study assessment, legislation and policies, research and evaluation. Examine interventions with offenders, justice and crime, law and behaviour.

Deepen your understanding of mental health care so that you can support clients in a clinical health setting. Get to know current treatment approaches and discover how to conduct assessments. Use your certificate as a stepping stone into further postgraduate study.

Enhance your work in health, education, and community settings. Make confident and ethical decisions backed by professional skills. You’ll learn how to measure and assess clients’ behaviour, and how to intervene and steer positive change in their lives.