Master of Rehabilitation Counselling and Mental Health

Masters (Coursework)

If you'd like to build a career that makes a meaningful difference, La Trobe's accredited Master of Rehabilitation Counselling and Mental Health will give you the foundations for a rewarding career that supports others through huge life changes.Develop your professional knowledge, skills and...

Key details

Degree Type

Masters (Coursework)

Duration

2 years full-time

Course Code

106839E

Study Mode

Online, In person

Intake Months

Feb, Jul

Domestic Fees

$38,000 per year / $76,000 total

International Fees

$38,000 per year / $76,000 total

About this course

If you'd like to build a career that makes a meaningful difference, La Trobe's accredited Master of Rehabilitation Counselling and Mental Health will give you the foundations for a rewarding career that supports others through huge life changes.

Develop your professional knowledge, skills and expertise with this unique combination of rehabilitation counselling and mental health subjects.

You'll get hands-on experience and will graduate prepared to work in rehabilitation counselling, as well as broader counselling settings such as mental health and Employee Assistance Program (EAP) counselling.

Explore a diverse range of workplaces and cultures. You'll learn how to support individuals and communities through disability, disadvantage and injury - helping them to reach their full potential and reintegrate into work and the community.

You'll learn:

Professional counselling practice
- Acquire skills that are essential for effective counselling practice through examining professional, ethical and legal issues that affect counselling practice in Australia.
Mental health counselling
- Understand the different types of mental health conditions and how they're diagnosed. Learn how to effectively treat clinical and sub-clinical mental health conditions.
Rehabilitation counselling
- Understand the interpersonal helping process, especially as it applies to rehabilitation and behaviour change. Explore different counselling models and techniques (e.g. Motivational Interviewing).

Employee Assistance Program counselling
- Develop specialised skills to work effectively and ethically as a counsellor in workplace settings.

The qualification awarded on graduation is recognised in the Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) as Level 9 - Masters Degree.

Sample course structure

Please note, the following course structure is indicative and subject to change depending on your course location, offer year or how you tailor your course with specialisations, majors, minors and electives. Structures for the following year are not normally finalised until October, so the sample provided is based on the most recently approved structure. For more information, please refer to the La Trobe University Handbook.

To qualify for the award of Master of Rehabilitation Counselling and Mental Health, students must complete a total of 240 credit points across 2 years.

Year 1 requires the completion of 120 credit points including:

105 credit points from chosen Core
15 credit points from chosen Core choice

Year 2 requires the completion of 120 credit points including:

60 credit points from chosen Core
60 credit points from chosen Core choice - Specialisations or Electives
60 credit points from chosen Advanced practice
60 credit points from chosen Applied research
60 credit points from chosen Electives

Study options

This is a StudyFlex course

Whether your course is considered on campus, online or a mix of both, a StudyFlex course provides:

at least one third of its subjects on campus or online; and/or
at least two StudyFlex majors - that is two eight-subject sequences that offer at least half of their subjects on campus or online.

Learn more about StudyFlex

Core subjects are required subjects in your course. You need to complete these subjects to attain your degree.

Subject name Subject code Year Credit points ACADEMIC INTEGRITY MODULE LTU0AIM 1 0 COMMUNITY BASED HEALTH SERVICE DELIVERY SYSTEMS PHE5SDS 1 15 EMPLOYMENT AND DISABILITY PHE5EMD 1 15 REHABILITATION COUNSELLING PHE5REC 1 15 REHABILITATION COUNSELLING PRACTICUM PHE5RCP 1 15 SERVICE COORDINATION AND CASE MANAGEMENT PHE5SCC 1 15 THE SERVICE USER PERSPECTIVE IN HEALTH CARE PHE5SUP 1 15 VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION PHE5VOR 1 15 FUNDAMENTALS OF EMPLOYEE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM COUNSELLING PHE5004 2 15 MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELLING A PHE5002 2 15 MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELLING B PHE5003 2 15 PROFESSIONAL COUNSELLING PRACTICE PHE5001 2 15

A range of standalone elective subjects is available in this course. Some electives are recommended for your course, but you may also be able to choose from a range of University-wide electives or electives from other interest areas or disciplines. Note these electives may have their own prerequisites and other requirements. Please refer to the La Trobe University Handbook for the subjects available.

Core choice subjects are one or more subject groups you need to select in your course. Core choice subjects may be specific to your course, major, minor, specialisation or other learning requirements.

Subject name Subject code Year Credit points ADVOCACY IN CONTEMPORARY DISABILITY PRACTICE ADP5ADP 1 15 MANAGING ATHLETE AND COACH WELFARE PHE5ACW 1 15 VIRTUAL AND TELE HEALTH DIG5VTH 1 15

See La Trobe University Handbook for more details

The Handbook contains detailed course information designed for enrolled students, including course structures, electives and options. The delivery of this course can vary between campuses.

City

To view other campus handbook course details, please select relevant campus in the drop down.

Study locations

City Campus

Online

Career pathways

After graduation, you could work across a wide range of industries, including allied health, education, government, sports, and more.

Possible roles include:

Rehabilitation counsellor
- Support people who are injured or experiencing disability or disadvantage, through the counselling process, to reintegrate into work and/or the community.
Counsellor
- Work with individuals who are experiencing personal difficulties and help them to make meaningful and helpful changes geared toward promotion of wellbeing in their lives.
Mental health counsellor
- Promote individual and/or community mental health and wellbeing through helping individuals, families, groups and/or communities to process difficult emotions, and through assessment and treatment of mental health disorders and trauma.
Employee Assistance Program (EAP) counsellor
- Assist employees, through the counselling process, with personal problems impacting their work performance, health and/or wellbeing.
Student wellbeing coordinator
- Provide welfare support, through the counselling process and coordinate development and wellbeing programs for students.

Professional recognition

The Master of Rehabilitation Counselling and Mental Health is accredited by the Australian Society of Rehabilitation Counsellors (ASORC). Graduates of the Master of Rehabilitation Counselling and Mental Health may apply for membership with ASORC and the Australian Counselling Association.

Membership may be subject to additional or ongoing requirements beyond completion of the degree. Please contact the relevant professional body for details.

Graduate outcomes

Graduate satisfaction and employment outcomes for Rehabilitation courses at La Trobe University.

83.9%

Overall satisfaction

82.8%

Skill scale

66.7%

Teaching scale

92.5%

Employed full-time

$80k

Average salary

Data source