Bachelor of Community Mental Health, Alcohol And Other Drugs

Offered by Chisholm Institute

The Bachelor of Community Mental Health, Alcohol and Other Drugs is your chance to support people and an industry in need. Upon graduation, you'll have developed a broad skillset to provide non-clinical services, supporting health professionals and specialists such as psychiatrists, nurses and social workers.

What you'll learn
• How to apply a critical and reflective approach to professional practice, while working with and for vulnerable and marginalised people.
• The legal and ethical frameworks involved in working with children and youth, intervention strategies, client advocacy, and working in aged care.
• In-depth understanding of human behaviour and issues relating to alcohol and other drugs, mental health problems and practice, community development and counselling processes.
• How to apply a range of mental health and recovery models, practices and techniques.

Field Placement

As part of the course, students are required to undertake 400 hours of professional community fieldwork placements. This is completed as two 200 hour fieldwork placements.