Mental Health Care (in Dutch only)

People who experience psychological and psychiatric problems require additional care and attention. Therefore, KHleuven established an advanced bachelor programme of mental health care in cooperation with KHKempen. This study programme aims at organising support for and in cooperation with professionals.

Is this programme right for you?

Are you worried about the increasing number of suicides that you read about in the newspapers? Are you concerned about the fact that depressions, ADHD, and autism spectrum disorders have become increasingly common? Being a bachelor of nursing or a bachelor of midwifery, do you want to help those who are, all too often, considered ‘unreasonable, tough and difficult clients’? Being a bachelor of social work, a bachelor of applied psychology, a master of psychology, a bachelor of orthopedagogics, a bachelor of ergotherapy, a bachelor of rehabilitation sciences and physical therapy, master of criminology, are you interested in working with these people?

What will you learn?

We intend to offer a more in-depth approach as opposed to the basic study programme and to complement the numerous and valuable therapy trainings available these days. The study programme brings together experts from higher education institutions and universities, and professionals who are familiar with psychopathologies such as personality disorders, addiction, psychosis, fear and depression, psychopathologies in children and adolescents, and so on.

Where can you work?

Psychiatric hospitals, psychiatric wards in general hospitals, and even general hospitals lacking such wards will be happy to employ your services. You may also be employed in centres of mental health care, centres of general welfare work, psychiatric wards of a penitentiary institution or prison, in committees of special youth care, in therapeutic communities.

Study programme

You can view the study programme for this course here.

Exemptions

More information will become available towards the end of February 2009.

Enrolment

More information will become available towards the end of February 2009.