Master of Science in Medicine (Psychotherapy)

The University of Sydney

Postgraduate

In Canberra (Australia)

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    Postgraduate

  • Location

    Canberra (Australia)

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    Different dates available

The Master of Science in Medicine (Psychotherapy) is a three-year part-time postgraduate course that covers a range of techniques employed to improve an individual’s mental health. The course will appeal to you as a health professional with an interest in mental health and training to work as a psychotherapist. Mental illness is more common than many people think – an estimated 800,000 Australians are affected by depression each year. Often mental illnesses are unrecognised and remain untreated.



The therapeutic approach taught by this course is based on the Conversational Model (Hobson, 1985; Meares, 2000, 2005), but also incorporates concepts from other schools, including Self Psychology, Intersubjectivity Theory, Trauma Theory and Memory Systems Theory. These ideas are centred around concepts of the self, notions of boundary formation, the empathic mode of listening, a focus on subjective experience, and unconscious traumatic memory systems.

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  • Psychotherapy
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  • Mental Health
  • Part Time

Course programme

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Study plan

The Master of Science in Medicine (Psychotherapy) consists of 72 credit points comprising coursework, supervised clinical work and a research treatise. You will complete this course part-time, normally over three years. Classes in this course are designed in the form of six strands and these are grand rounds, seminars, practical work, clinical supervision, reading and assessment. Each strand involves different requirements that you are expected to complete.


Capstone experience

A capstone experience comprises one or more units of study designed by the school to provide students with an opportunity to draw together the learning that has taken place during the award, synthesise this with their prior learning and experience, and draw conclusions that will form the basis for further investigation, and intellectual and/or professional growth.

For the Master of Science in Medicine (Psychotherapy), all students complete a 10,000 word psychotherapy treatise as the capstone experience.

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Master of Science in Medicine (Psychotherapy)

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