New Zealand Diploma in Health and Wellbeing (Mental Health and Addiction) (Practice/Applied Practice)

Summary

Learn how to provide quality mental health and addiction services to individuals in need, as well as help peoples’ family. Work independently as practitioners, or under the supervision of professional or qualified clinicians. Set yourself up for a career in this growth industry.

You will learn the knowledge and skills required to communicate and engage with clients, wh?nau/supporters, and other stakeholders in a mental health and addiction services to individuals in need, as well as support their wh?nau and family.

Over 40 weeks, you will apply the transferable skills and knowledge gained to provide high quality mental health and addiction services to those in need and help to support their whänau through the delivery of services as a support worker in areas such as community-based support services, iwi health providers, mental health support, social services, youth work and consumer advocacy.

On successfully completing this programme, graduates will be able to:

• Integrate theory and knowledge of health and wellbeing to identify the health and
• wellbeing aspirations of people from diverse contexts
• Critically select and apply a range of evidence based practices to support people to meet their health and wellbeing aspirations
• Maintain awareness of the socio cultural, economic and political factors impacting the wider health and wellbeing environment to provide responsive support practices
• Critically select and apply a range of evidence based practices informed by
• knowledge of te ao Maori to respond to the health and wellbeing aspirations of tangata whenua
• Apply advanced strategies and practices to respond with sensitivity to people from diverse contexts
• Critically reflect on and evaluate own support practice to achieve continuous
• improvement