Students are required to take 30 credits (5 Required Subjects, 1 Required Subject on an Integrative Project and 4 Elective Subjects) to be eligible for the award of Master of Arts in Mental Health.

Students who have successfully completed 21 credits (5 Required Subjects and 2 Elective Subjects) can apply early to exit the programme with Postgraduate Diploma in Mental Health.

Required Subjects (6 subjects, 18 credits)

• Adolescent Mental Health
• Integrative Project
• Mental Health and the Aged
• Mental Health Practice
• Practice Research
• Psychopathology: Holistic and Humanistic Orientations

Elective Subjects (any 4 subjects including an option of a practicum, 12 credits) #

• Advanced Practice Methods: Brief Therapy
• Advanced Practice Methods: Cognitive Behavioural Intervention
• Delinquency and Family
• Evolution in Family Therapy: Structural & Systemic Approaches
• Guidance and Counselling for Students with Special Needs
• Individual and Group Counselling Skills Workshop
• Mental Health Practice and Interpersonal Neurobiology: Attachment, Trauma and Healing in the Context of Relationships
• Mental Health Policy
• Mindfulness-based Programme in Mental Health and Social Care
• Narrative Therapy
• Practicum in Mental Health Care ^
• Social Constructionism and Collaborative Dialogic Approach
• Use of Creative Arts in Mental Health Care
• Use of Drama in Mental Health Care
• Violence in Intimate Relationships

^ If students who do not have a social work or counselling degree with a one-semester course in micro clinical skill training, they should take "Individual and Group Counseling Skills Workshop" as a pre-requisite.

# The department reserves the right to alter the subject offering pattern and subjects on offer.

# Not all elective subjects will be offered every year and registration is subject to the availability of quota.