Mental Health Studies

Overview

By the end of the Mental Health Studies course from University of Malta , you will be able to:

• Demonstrate deepened and widened interdisciplinary understanding of the persons affected by mental health issues in the fields of Child and Adolescence, Addictions or Community Care, Holistic and Long-Term Mental Health Recovery, depending on the chosen stream. This will focus on the issues’ origins and manifestations, treatment and therapy, impact and challenges on living and relating, and best ways to respond to these for better quality of life and greater human dignity.
• Communicate and cooperate across disciplines in an effective manner resulting from mutual understanding, the experience of enhanced and guided cooperation and an appreciation of what is involved in interdisciplinarity.
• Apply such an understanding in their professional and work practice and as active members of society, in exercising engagement, assessment, intervention, good management, advocacy and/or support, in ways that are appropriate for their profession and role, both in relation to mental health in general and to their chosen study stream in particular.

• Use the insight given to them by the experience of having conducted postgraduate research to improve the appropriateness and effectiveness of their professional and work practice in the fields of Child and Adolescence, Addictions or Community Care, Holistic and Long-Term Mental Health Recovery, depending on the chosen stream.

Career opportunites and access to further studies

Career opportunities in the branches targeted in this programme are wide and varied; this course will provide you with sound knowledge that allows for critical, reflective and informed decisions in these areas of employment. Moreover, it will provide you with the necessary tools to function in a team that consists of different professionals from multiple disciplines who all need to be involved in care management.