Graduate Diploma in Health Science

AUT's addiction courses equip students with the skills to work effectively with people who have substance use or other behavioural-related addiction issues in a range of settings.

Courses you can study

Choose eight 15-point courses including at least three of the addiction courses listed below, with the rest from a related programme, subject to the approval of the programme leader.

• MENH704 Theories and Principles for Addiction Practice
• MENH705 Assessment and Intervention in Addiction Practice
• MENH706 Recovery and Wellbeing in Addiction Practice

PLUS Select up to 5 courses below (at least one must be from level 7)

• MAOH701 Maori Health Promotion
• MAOH702 Applied Primary Māori Mental Health
• HEAL610 Methods of Research and Enquiry
• PSYC601 Abnormal Psychology
• PSYC713 Gambling Studies*
• MENH602 Mental Health and Psychopathology
• MENH703 Child Youth Mental Health Issues and Interventions
• COUN706 Cognitive Behavioural Approaches
• HPRM705 Tobacco Control
• PSYC707 Approaches to Psychological Intervention

_{*Has a distance learning option, and is available for a Certificate of Proficiency Application}

DAPAANZ registration

Students who want to be considered for dapaanz registration will need to complete MENH704 Theories and Principles for Addiction Practice and MENH705 Assessment and Intervention in Addiction Practice, and will also need to have completed or be completing an applied bachelor’s degree in counselling, psychotherapy, occupational therapy, nursing, social work, medicine, or similar.

DAPAANZ website

The Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy courses are designed for health professionals, teachers, youth workers and individuals who have extensive experience of working with children and who have a strong interest in becoming a specialist child and adolescent psychotherapist. Courses provide you with in-depth knowledge of observational studies, infant and child development and a strong theoretical framework from which to progress towards the clinical component of this training.

Currently this is the only specialist child and adolescent psychotherapy training on offer in Aotearoa, New Zealand.

Offered in Semester 1 only (starts February).

Graduates who go on to further postgraduate clinical study with children and adolescents will be expected to apply for student membership of the New Zealand Association of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists, and under an interim scope of practice (working with children) with the Psychotherapists Board of Aotearoa New Zealand.

Psychotherapists Board of Aotearoa New Zealand website

Courses you can study

Choose eight 15-point courses including at least four of the five listed below, with the rest from a related programme, subject to the approval of the programme leader.

• PSYT701 Psychosocial Life Review
• PSYT702 Social and Cultural Analysis
• PSYT708 Infant Observation
• PSYT709 Child and Adolescent Work Discussion
• PSYT710 Psychoanalytic Concepts
• PSYT711 Psychoanalytic Theory
• PSYT712 Reflexivity and Relational Skills

This includes the requirement that you engage in your own weekly personal psychotherapy for the duration of this course of study.

Interview process for this programme

You may need to participate in an interview process for acceptance into this area of study. We will contact you with interview details.

The recommended background for this programme includes:

• That you have engaged in at least six months of your own personal psychotherapy
• That you have evidence of people-helping experience, for example, counselling or similar

For more information about this contact:

fhes.enquiries@aut.ac.nz

Choose eight 15-point courses, subject to the approval of the Programme Leader.

The psychology courses in the Graduate Diploma in Health Science are aimed at students who don’t have a psychology degree or experience. If you already have experience in psychology you should apply for the Graduate Certificate in Health Science.

Courses you can study

• HEAL708 Professional Practice and Ethics
• HEAL709 Advanced Research
• HLAW701 Health Law and Policy
• PSYC605 Brain and Behaviour
• PSYC604 Personality
• PSYC603 Psychological Assessment
• PSYC781 Applied Issues in Cultural and Social Psychology
• PSYC706 Health Psychology
• PSYC707 Approaches to Psychological Intervention
• PSYC705 Positive Psychology
• PSYC702 Critical Evaluation in Psychology
• PSYC701 Experimental and Applied Behaviour Analysis
• PSYC780 Emotions and Human Nature

Courses you can study

HEAL715 Renal Science
HEAL716 Renal Health, Culture and Context
HEAL610 Methods of Research and Enquiry
PHMY701 Pharmacology for Professional Practice
HEAL718 Renal Physiology Clinical Practice
HEAL717 Renal Pathology and Treatment

You choose eight 15-point approved undergraduate courses from:

• Bachelor of Health Science
• Bachelor of Sport and Recreation

Prerequisites and limitations may apply.