The course aims at giving student the necessary in-depth knowledge to meet the needs of the community for such services at all times. The course is designed for the professions, with special emphasis on practical skills and clinical competence. This is achieved through a variety of methods such as lectures, various group study methods, role play, case studies and practical studies. The students are expected to work independently within their subject areas. Lectures and seminars will cover only selected areas of the curriculum.
Supervision is central to the course.
Client-centred practical work is specifically linked to people with a mental disease. All practical work is to be carried out under supervision. This new curriculum replaces the temporary curriculum for post-graduate studies in psychiatric nursing, the approved syllabus for psychiatric social work and the temporary syllabus for psychosomatic and psychiatric physiotherapy. The programme is intended to meet the needs of the labour market in various areas and at different levels of the health service, both within and outside mental health care, as well as in the first and second lines of service. In addition, it will also be relevant to particular areas such as child and youth psychiatry, care of addicts, the elderly, etc.