Graduate Certificate in Case Management and Mental Health

Strengthen your professional practice with advanced knowledge of case management, mental health and person-centred service delivery. This 100% online degree equips you with practical skills to coordinate supports, work collaboratively with clients and contribute to positive outcomes across human services and rehabilitation settings.

You'll develop the knowledge and skills to:

1. Apply person-centred planning approaches: support individuals to identify goals, make informed decisions and participate fully in their communities.
2. Understand contemporary mental health practice: explore mental health theories, policy frameworks and service delivery models.
3. Coordinate services and supports: assess needs, develop support plans and connect clients with appropriate services and resources.
4. Work with people experiencing complex challenges: support individuals living with injury, disability or mental ill health across diverse contexts.
5. Engage with lived experience perspectives: understand the experiences of consumers and carers and apply these insights in practice.
6. Communicate effectively and collaboratively: build professional relationships with clients, families, carers and multidisciplinary teams.

Build expertise in case management and mental health

Develop the specialised knowledge required to work effectively in human services, rehabilitation and mental health settings. This graduate certificate explores the principles, theories and frameworks that underpin person-centred planning, case management and mental health practice.

You'll learn how to identify individual needs, coordinate services and support people to achieve meaningful personal goals. Alongside practical case management skills, you'll examine mental health concepts, epidemiology and key theoretical frameworks that inform contemporary professional practice.

Support positive outcomes for diverse communities

Designed for professionals working across human services and rehabilitation sectors, you’ll further build your capability to work with individuals experiencing injury, disability, mental ill health and other complex life challenges. You'll develop the skills to support people in achieving greater independence, accessing services and participating in employment, education and community life.

With a focus on recovery-oriented and person-centred practice, you'll learn how to collaborate effectively with clients, families and support networks while responding to increasingly complex service environments.

Recommended study pattern

As a guide, core subjects in this degree can include:

• Understanding Mental Health: Theories and Practice
• Person-centred Planning
• Communication and Interpersonal Skills
• Working with First Peoples Communities 
• Disability Theories and Approaches. 

As part of your application, you’ll be guided through how to get the right degree structure in place for you.

Award requirements

For the award of Graduate Certificate in Case Management and Mental Health (GCertCaseMgtMentalH), you must successfully complete 40 credit points comprising:

• 40 credit points for all Core Module.

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Indicative total fee $8,000

The amount shown here is indicative for an Australian citizen studying part-time, which is typically 4 subjects per year.

Fees may vary depending on:

• the subjects you choose
• credit from previous work experience
• your eligibility for government funding loans or subsidies such as HECS-HELP or a Commonwealth supported place.

To learn more, go to Fees or contact a student advisor.

With a network of campuses spanning three cities in South East Queensland, Griffith University is committed to progressive multidisciplinary teaching and research and a valuable online provider with Open Universities Australia.

Already attracting students from over one hundred countries, Griffith's dedication to academic excellence is available across Australia through OUA.

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20

To be eligible for this program, you must meet one of the following criteria:

• a recognised Bachelor degree (or higher).
• a Certificate IV or Diploma - VET/TAFE qualification in a related discipline and one year relevant work experience.
• three years relevant work experience.

Related discipline includes health/allied health discipline such as nursing, social work, psychology, occupational therapy, vocational rehabilitation, clinical exercise physiology, counselling, exercise science, physiotherapy, speech therapy, industrial relations, human resource management, occupational health and safety, pharmacy, speech pathology, medicine, dentistry or other human services field.

Relevant work experience includes roles in disability, rehabilitation, mental health, or related human services fields.

English language requirements apply to International applicants and other applicants whose previous study was undertaken in a language other than English. The minimum English language requirements for such applicants for entry to this program are as follows:

• A minimum overall band score of 6.5 on IELTS (Academic) with no sub-score of less than 6.0
• OR an overall score of 79 in the internet-based (iBT) TOEFL with no sub-score less than 19 (applies to tests taken prior to 21 January 2026)
• OR an overall score of 4 in the internet-based (iBT) TOEFL with a minimum score of 4 in each of the listening, reading, and writing skills, and a minimum score of 3.5 in speaking skills (applies to tests taken on or after 21 January 2026)
• OR no score less than 3+ in each skill of the ISLPR (conducted by ISLPR Language Services only)
• OR a minimum overall score of 176 (no score less than 169) on Cambridge C1 Advanced or Cambridge C2 Proficiency
• OR an overall score of 58 in the Pearson Test of English (Academic) with no score less than 50 (applies to tests taken prior to 7 August 2025)
• OR an overall score of 55 in the Pearson Test of English (Academic) with no score less than 47 (applies to tests taken on or after 7 August 2025)
• OR an overall score of 70 in the LanguageCert Academic
• OR an overall score of 59 in the Michigan English Test (MET)

English test results must be no more than two years old.

International students who successfully complete the Direct Entry Program (DEP) will satisfy the English Language requirements for this Griffith degree.

The Direct Entry Program (DEP) is not available for Domestic students.

Applicants should refer to the English language requirements section of the following University procedure for exceptions to these overall requirements:

• Admission Procedure

If you do not meet the University's specified English language requirements, you may wish to contact the Griffith English Language Institute to increase your eligibility for entering a Griffith University program. This Institute offers a number of English language and other courses at both its Brisbane and Gold Coast branches.

• Griffith English Language Institute

Reduce the time it takes to finish your degree. You can apply to Griffith to recognise your prior learning, including:  

• Formal learning through courses completed at uni and TAFE.  
• Informal learning through workplace experience or volunteer training.  
• Non-formal learning through social experiences and hobbies.