Graduate Diploma in Rehabilitation Counselling

The Graduate Diploma in Rehabilitation Counselling offers career expansion for students wishing to add to their existing qualifications in social sciences or health sciences.

You will be qualified to provide vocational evaluation, vocational counselling, and case management in workers compensation settings as a rehabilitation counsellor.

The aim of rehabilitation counselling is to assist people with disabilities or disadvantage to attain maximum participation in employment and community life through appropriate assessment, counselling, service provision and support.During this course, you will study:

vocational development and counselling, applied psychosocial and medical rehabilitation, case management, client assessment and job placement, work injury and worker's compensation, and rehabilitation philosophy.You will have the opportunity to experience your chosen career path via clinical fieldwork placements in workers compensation and rehabilitation settings.

Why study with us?How will you learn?The course is offered on campus and by distance/ online.

Who should study this course?Health and non-health graduates who are looking to gain the skills required for professional practice as a rehabilitation counsellor.Learn more about studying health sciences at Sydney.

Admission criteria

To be eligible to apply you will need to fulfill the following criteria:

• A bachelor's degree, master's or research degree from an Australian institution or equivalent.
• A minimum GPA of 4 out of 7.0 which is an approximate Weighted Average Mark (WAM) of 60 percent (this does not guarantee an offer of a place as places are limited and offers are made based on academic merit)

Inherent requirements

Inherent requirements are the essential tasks and activities necessary to be able to achieve the core learning outcomes of a course. They are specific to a particular course or discipline. To assist students to make informed choices about their study, we have identified and set out the inherent requirements for this course.

What you'll study