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About the course
This Graduate Certificate introduces the therapeutic power of play and builds specialist skills to help professionals work more effectively with children. You will explore child development, psychosocial and behavioural factors, and foundations in childhood neuroscience and psychopathology, including trauma and neurodevelopmental differences such as autism. The course emphasises evidence-based ways to embed therapeutic play in practice across settings like health and education, delivered as a postgraduate psychology-focused qualification.
Career outcome
Graduates can strengthen their practice in roles that support children’s wellbeing by using therapeutic play-informed approaches in everyday professional settings. The course suits educators, health and allied health workers, and others working with children who want deeper capability in understanding behaviour, development and emotional regulation. Skills developed may support work in schools, community and health services, and child and family programs, as a graduate certificate in psychology and mental health practice.
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