Graduate Diploma in Psychology

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Learn what makes success tick

Understanding human behaviour provides an incredible career advantage. It can enable you to prevent or resolve workplace issues, lift people's performance and help you break down barriers to inclusion and strengthen personal bonds.

In short, it increases your value to employers in any sector, in any part of the world. And our Graduate Diploma in Psychology (Online) is the ideal first step in professional training to be a Psychologist.

Conducted part-time over 1.7 years, this highly flexible online program will equip you to apply psychological principles effectively and confidently in your chosen professional field. You will:

• gain deep understanding of psychological theory and contemporary knowledge
• learn how to apply psychological concepts to complex personal, social and societal issues
• build broad skills in qualitative, quantitative and mixed-methodology psychological data analysis
• develop high-level psychological research capabilities
• expand your awareness of cross-cultural perspectives on mental health and behaviour.

You'll also reflect on ethical and legal issues underpinning psychological research and practice; and develop the highly effective interpersonal skills needed to communicate your psychological observations and strategies with a range of audiences.

You'll graduate well-prepared to apply psychological skills in your chosen industry. You could help your team raise productivity through more effective collaboration. You might reframe an organisation's ongoing dialogue with customers to ensure they feel genuinely valued and respected. Perhaps you'll find innovative ways to remove societal barriers to gender equality.

You may even choose to pursue further study to become a Psychologist.