Diploma in Psychosocial Interventions

• Plan and implement holistic culturally sensitive interventions that minimize or alleviate the psychosocial issues affecting forced migrants and refugees at an individual, family, group, community and societal levels.

• Plan, manage and implement state-of-the-art interventions that make an impact on the psychosocial well-being of refugee adults and children without discrimination

Bachelor’s degree from accredited university, acceptable GPA, English proficiency test, one recommendation letter

Course Requirement
The graduate diploma in psychosocial intervention for forced migrants and refugees requires the successful completion of 6 courses with 18 credit hours. These will consist of 5 core courses, plus one elective.

MRS 5200 – Introduction to Migration and Refugee Studies (3 cr.)
MRS 5112 – Psychosocial Issues in Forced Migration (3 cr.)
MRS 5214 – Psychosocial Interventions for Forced Migrants and Refugees (3 cr.)
PSYC 5210 – Community Psychology and Systems Theory (3 cr.)
PSYC 5283 – Internship in Community Psychology (3 cr.) (This internship course will be undertaken in the spring where placement will be with an organization working with refugee and migrant populations).
One elective can be selected based on student interests from the list of electives offered by CMRS and the Department of Psychology.