Deakin University

Bachelor of Psychology (Honours) (Child and Family)

Curious about how to apply the science of mind and behaviour to understand and promote mental health and wellbeing? Deakin's four-year Bachelor of Psychology (Honours) has an embedded honours year, distinguishing it from our other psychology courses. Honours includes practical training preparing you for provisional registration as a psychologist with the Psychology Board of Australia and sets you on the pathway to general registration. 

Specialise from year one with the only Victorian university to offer specialist psychology majors in an undergraduate psychology degree, allowing you to learn what you are passionate about sooner. In your honours year, you will complete a group research project and learn advanced studies in counselling, psychological assessment, critical evaluation and research methods.

Child and family Major
This major brings together complementary units from within Health and Social Development and Psychology with a particular focus on the health and development of the family system and its members. It will be of particular interest to those wanting to work supporting children and/or families in the community.