Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Mental Health Nursing
The Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Mental Health Nursing will provide you with a three-year programme of study in both the theory and practice of mental health nursing, allowing you to function as fully accredited members of the psychiatric multi-disciplinary team. The course has been developed to meet the nursing needs of the increasing population of people with mental health problems. As a graduate, you will be prepared to become dynamic, reflective and highly skilled professionals able to work as fully integrated members of the psychiatric multi-disciplinary team. Your main focus as a mental health nursing’s is to cultivate the responsibility that comes with a profession that centres around the well-being of people. We also offer opportunities for personal growth, interpersonal skills development and the foundations of evidence-based interventions to enable you to do so as self-directed practitioners. We also encourage you to participate in the Erasmus+ mobility programme for a multicultural and diverse learning experience.
Master of Science in Mental Health Studies
The Master of Science in Mental Health Studies is an interfaculty programme of the Faculty of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine & Surgery and Faculty for Social Wellbeing, at the University of Malta.
The main strength of this programme is its learning and multidisciplinary aspect. Whilst this renders it innovative, it is also a direct reflection of the need to odder synergistic, holistic and comprehensive services to individuals experiencing mental health difficulties. The course responds to local needs related to the areas of long-term Mental Health Recovery, Addictions, and Child and Adolescent Mental Health. It is congruent with the development of Mental Health Services in Malta and reflective of the current strategies that are being employed in order to improve service delivery. This course will instil you with a multidisciplinary and critically reflective mentality which can be directly translated into your practice.
Master of Science in Mental Health Nursing
Mental Health services are expanding all the time in recognition of the huge impact mental health and illness has on society. Hence, the Master of Science in Mental Health Nursing aims to provide the knowledge, confidence and skills for psychiatric/general nurses and midwives to target their own self development and make a major contribution to professional care in mental health. This is enabled through a person-centred approach that is the philosophical approach guiding the programme.
This academic programme exposes you to the various facets relating to mental health care, such as facilitating the recovery of persons with acute and long-term mental health conditions. This includes providing the latest evidence-based knowledge relating to caring for persons with addictions, personality, maternal health, sexual and eating disorders amongst others. You will also have the opportunity to learn about a diversity of approaches and skills that can be used both in your own self-care and when caring for service users and their families.
The programme also provides you with research and ethical skills that contribute to enhancement of your knowledge base, clinical practice and service delivery. The acquisition of such knowledge and skills enables graduates to contribute to the challenging and rewarding area of mental health care as dynamic and reflective professionals who can serve as change agents and who can take up clinical leadership and/or management and education posts.
