Graduate Diploma in Science in Medicine (Trauma-Informed Psychotherapy)

The Graduate Diploma of Science in Medicine (Trauma-Informed Psychotherapy) teaches an approach that helps people with personality or anxiety disorders, dysthymia, chronic depression, somatisation and other conditions in which trauma is a contributing factor.The program is designed to train clinicians to treat people for whom chronic, complex trauma has played a contributing role in the development of psychological disorders or stress, or where conventional psychotherapies have failed.

It uses an evidence-based approach to psychodynamic psychotherapy and offers supervised training across the different lengths of treatment, from acute to brief and longer term, suitable for public and private settings.This course is suitable for clinicians with mental health experience, such as social workers, psychologists, nurses, psychotherapists, counsellors and school counsellors and may be of interest to others such as speech pathologists and dentists.

The program is delivered in close liaison with the Western Sydney Local Health District and practising clinicians to ensure that the skills taught are practical and relevant to real-world psychotherapy practice settings.

Clinical content includes short and longer-term interventions and the integration of psychotherapy with other treatment modalities.A limited number of Commonwealth Supported Places (CSPs) are available for this course for Semester 1, 2020.

To be considered for a CSP you must apply for entry to the course by February 2020 and places will be allocated based on merit.

Admission criteria

Admission to the Graduate Diploma in Science in Medicine (Trauma-Informed Psychotherapy) will require successful completion of the embedded Graduate Certificate in Science in Medicine, or a bachelor or postgraduate degree in a health-related discipline from the University of Sydney or equivalent qualification, and:

• a minimum of 12 months’ experience in a clinical area related to mental health
• current professional indemnity insurance to practise psychotherapy in NSW
• satisfactory performance at an interview as required.

The academic requirements that are displayed are applicable to currently available courses only, and are updated annually and may be changed without notice.

What you'll study