Graduate Certificate of Counselling (Child, Youth & Family Therapy)
PostgraduateUSQ-CYF-GCE2025
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Work with families for a brighter future
Contribute to the wellbeing of children, young adults, and families. This part-time online counselling course offers fundamental counselling theory and professional skills. Work on the essentials like case management. Grasp key legal and ethical issues.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Credit available
- Yes
- Duration
- 6 months
- Total subjects
- 4
- Available loans
- Australian Higher Education Loan Program (HELP)
Graduate Certificate of Counselling (Child, Youth & Family Therapy)
About this degree
Upon completion of this program, graduates will be able to:
- Demonstrate understanding of specialized theories and models fundamental to fields associated with counseling.
- Demonstrate advanced interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills that are appropriate from a decolonizing perspective when communicating with culturally diverse audiences, including clients and professionals, utilizing person-first language.
- Demonstrate critical reasoning, judgment, and problem-solving in the exploration of a range of professional, legal, and ethical practice issues.
- Integrate theory and practice to develop client-centered, trauma-informed counseling interventions for working with children, youth, couples, and families, within diverse contexts and groups.
- Are you passionate about the wellbeing of children, young adults and families? UniSQ’s Graduate Certificate of Counselling (Child, Youth and Family Therapy) will equip you in skills of child abuse prevention and intervention, along with relationship, family, child and youth counselling. Our online counselling degree is designed to enhance your career within the health, psychology or human services profession. Offered part-time, this degree can alternatively be a professional development opportunity for psychologists and social workers.
Recommended study pattern
Year 1
COU5041 Trauma Informed Care and Practice
COU6021 Couple and Family Counselling
COU6022 Child and Youth Counselling
COU5105 Counselling and Diversity Across the Lifespan
Award requirements
Completion of 4 units as outlined in the Recommended Study Pattern section.Choose your subjects
Majors
- Alcohol and Drug Studies
- Child, Youth and Family Therapy
- Foundations of Practice
- Mental Health Counselling
Electives
Approved Course List
COU8006 Group Counselling Process and Practice
EDU5335 Emotional and Behavioural Problems of Children and Adolescents
COU8014 Relapse Prevention
COU8012 Motivational Interviewing
COU8013 Introduction to Psychoactive Drugs
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Indicative total fee $13,320
The amount shown here is indicative for an Australian citizen studying full-time, which is typically 8 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.
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- 24
- Times Higher Education Ranking 2024:
- 24
How to apply
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Entry requirements
- A bachelor's degree, or equivalent, in any area from a recognised university. Proof of meeting the English Language Proficiency requirements is also required.
All students are required to satisfy the applicable English language requirements. For entry to the Graduate Certificate of Counselling (Child, Youth and Family Therapy) program, applicants are required to meet the Category 3 English Language Proficiency requirements.
- Exemptions/credit will be assessed based on the UniSQ Credit and Exemption Procedure. Claims for credit for previous study should be submitted prior to or at the time of enrolment. Each claim will be assessed on individual merit in line with UniSQ policy.
Career opportunities
Career outlook
- Careers Counsellors:
- $75K to $93K
- Counsellors:
- $75K to $93K
- Health and Welfare Services Managers:
- Over $120K
- Social Workers:
- $75K to $93K