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Graduate Diploma in Forensic Mental Health 

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Graduate Diploma in Forensic Mental Health
 at 
UNSW 
Overview

Provides an opportunity for a comprehensive training in forensic mental health

Duration

12 months

Total fee

16.55 Lakh

Mode of learning

Online

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Course Level

PG Diploma

Graduate Diploma in Forensic Mental Health
 at 
UNSW 
Highlights

  • Earn a diploma from UNSW Sydney
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Graduate Diploma in Forensic Mental Health
 at 
UNSW 
Course details

Skills you will learn
What are the course deliverables?
  • Developed a specialist disciplinary knowledge of professional practice in the field of forensic mental health based on acquisition of knowledge and skills relevant to such practice
  • Developed a specialist disciplinary knowledge and understanding of the impact of issues
  • Developed a specialist disciplinary knowledge and critical understanding of the research literature relevant to the professional and academic practice
More about this course
  • This program covers the theoretical and practical aspects of criminal, civil, child and family forensic mental health sub specialities
  • The program is also open for members of the legal profession, corrections, police and criminologists
  • The program aims to provide specialised levels of expertise in the clinical and legal aspects of Law and Forensic Mental Health to an emerging skilled multidisciplinary workforce
  • It draws upon the existing body of leading expertise in law, medicine and nursing, and the rich clinical resources of the Justice Health Long Bay Matraville complex which includes the high secure Forensic Hospital

Graduate Diploma in Forensic Mental Health
 at 
UNSW 
Curriculum

Core Courses

Law and Mental Health

Psychiatry and Criminal Law

Violence

Administration, Institutions and Services

Electives

Applied Research Methods for Public Health

Epidemiology and Statistics for Public Health

Public Health Perspectives of Indigenous Health

Evidence-informed Decision-making

Mental Disorders, Personality Disorders & Crime

Substance Use Problems and Offending

Disordered and Criminal Sexual Behaviour

Families, Children and Adolescents

Civil Law in relation to Psychiatry

Unusual Behaviours and Special Groups

Graduate Diploma in Forensic Mental Health
 at 
UNSW 
Entry Requirements

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Contact Information

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High St Kensington, NSW 2052 Australia
Kensington ( New South Wales)

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