Graduate Diploma in Rehabilitation Counselling/Master of Rehabilitation Counselling

These courses offer professional development for students wishing to add to their existing qualifications in social sciences or health sciences. Graduates attain professional status as a rehabilitation counsellor and are qualified to provide specialist counselling, rehabilitation and case management services to people who have experienced injury, disability or social disadvantage. They may work in government/public, community or private rehabilitation settings, as rehabilitation coordinators in industry, vocational/social trainers, counsellors in drug and alcohol, psychiatric and correctional settings. They may also work as human resource managers and private rehabilitation consultants. Supervised practical experience in work settings ensures students make vital links with industry.

The Graduate Diploma in Rehabilitation Counselling can be completed on a one-year full time basis or over a longer period on a part time basis. The Master of Rehabilitation Counselling can be completed over two years full-time or again over a longer period if studies are undertaken on a part-time basis. Classes are offered in both the graduate diploma and masters program in on-campus and distance education mode. The nature of the on campus offering varies between subjects and can include regular weekly classes or workshops throughout the semester at less regular intervals (or both). Some units of study have no on campus classes but are purely taught through online methods.

Students wishing to articulate from the graduate diploma to the masters will need to apply directly to the Course Coordinator by 30 October of their finishing year and will need to achieve an overall credit average to be eligible. A student enrolled in the Master of Rehabilitation Counselling who elects to exit early from the masters' must satisfactorily complete the requirements for the graduate diploma.

Admission requirements

Graduate Diploma in Rehabilitation Counselling

To be eligible to apply you will need:

1. a PhD, masters or bachelors degree from an Australian institution or equivalent
2. a grade point average of 4.5 or greater (approximately equivalent to a credit average or better) assessed on the highest ranked tertiary qualification presented.

Master of Rehabilitation Counselling

To be eligible to apply you will need:

1. a PhD, master's or bachelor's degree from an Australian institution or equivalent;
2. a grade point average of 4.5 or greater (approximately equivalent to a credit average or better) assessed on the highest ranked tertiary qualifications presented.

Course outline

The course outlines for the graduate Rehabilitation Counselling programs are presented in Tables 17.3 and 17.4. Unit of study descriptions and a list of faculty and research electives are provided in Chapter 20.

Table 17.1: Graduate Diploma in Rehabilitation Counselling

Table 17.2: Master of Rehabilitation Counselling

Course rules