Mental Health and Addictions
Description
Support improved wellbeing with a Mental Health and Addictions certificate
As more and more people seek treatment for mental health and addiction issues, the need for skilled, compassionate addictions and mental health professionals skyrockets. The Chang School offers a well-rounded Certificate in Mental Health and Addictions that provides you with a strong foundational knowledge in general psychology to help both in your future mental-health and addictions courses and career.
The certificate will teach you assessment, treatment, and self-help strategies within individual, group, family, and community contexts, and there’s the opportunity to participate in psychological research as well.
You can then choose from a wide variety of electives like child development, human brain circuitry, and developmental psychopathology to tailor our addictions and mental health program to your interests and deepen your knowledge. Other electives include coursework around law, health, and healthcare, immigration, and human sexuality. And if you’re intrigued about exploring the ever-growing death doula career path, our mental health and addictions program has a Death, Dying and Bereavement elective, too.
Currently working full-time? Our online certificate allows you to complete your studies at your own pace. You can even obtain your Certificate in Mental Health and Addictions in just one year.
There’s no better time to start than now: our community needs more educated mental health and addictions professionals, and you could be one of them.
Who should take this Mental Health and Addictions certificate?
- You’re ready to pivot to a new career path in mental health and addictions and need to master the basics
- You’re already working in the mental healthcare or addictions space and want to further specialize in a specific mental health or addictions discipline to advance your career in a different direction
- You want to boost your mental health and addictions knowledge to enrich your work and better understand the lived experience of clients, employees, and colleagues
- You’re a student who’d like to use the degree-credit courses towards completion of your undergraduate degree or strengthen an application for graduate school
- You have an undergraduate degree and want to enhance your education with additional specialization in mental health and additions
Admission Criteria
Recommended:
- Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD) or equivalent
- With 6 Grade 12 U or M credits OR
- Mature student status with 3 years of professional experience in business, community service, or industry
Certificate Requirements:
- 4 required courses
- 6 electives*
- Cumulative grade point average (GPA) of 1.67+
*Select 2 (or 3) selections from Electives – Group A and 3 (or 4) courses from Electives – Group B.
To graduate, you must successfully complete, within your official time span, the requirements from the year you registered in the program.
Required Courses
- CPSY 102 Introduction to Psychology I
- CPSY 202 Introduction to Psychology II
- CPSY 215 Psychology of Addictions
- CPSY 325 Psychological Disorders
Electives – Group A (select 2 or 3)
You may only select 1 of CPSY 214 or CPSY 607. If you choose to take 2 courses from this category, you will need to complete 4 courses from Electives – Group B to fulfill the certificate requirements; if you take 3 courses, you will need to complete 3 courses from Electives – Group B.
- CPSY 214 Psychopharmacology
- CPSY 324 Biological Psychology
- CPSY 335 Clinical Psychology
- CPSY 607 Drugs and Human Behaviour
Electives – Group B (select 3 or 4)
- CPSY 300 Psychology and Law
- CPSY 302 Child Development
- CPSY 412 Human Brain Circuitry
- CPSY 602 Developmental Psychopathology
- CPSY 605 Psychology of Health and Health Care
- CPSY 620 Psychology of Immigration
- CPSY 621 Psychology of Human Sexuality
- CPSY 682 Sleep
- CPSY 802 Death, Dying and Bereavement
- CPSY 805 Adjustment, Stress and Coping
- CPSY 806 Behaviour Modification
- CPSY 808 Community Psychology
Career Options
This certificate can prepare you for jobs like:
- Psychologist
- Social worker
- Child and youth worker
- Mental health and addictions counsellor
- Mental health advocate
- Hospital administrator
- Clinical coordinator
- Counselling administrator
Note: Check with the institution regarding start/end dates, prices, and delivery method. These may vary according to program, section, and/or semester.
Overview
- Institution: Toronto Metropolitan University (Ryerson)
- Program type: Certificate
- Language: English
- Program Code:
- Delivery Method: Blended/Hybrid Learning