Honours Bachelor of Community Mental Health

  • Country Canada
  • Course Duration 4 year
  • Course Type Full Time
  • Courses Campus On Campus
  • Language Specification IELTS
  • Program Level Undergraduate
  • Education Required Grade 12 /Equivalent to 12th
  • Admission intake SEP
  • Minimum GPA 50

Application Charges

Application Fee Tution Fee
CAD 90 CAD 17,450

Application Date

Application Start Date Application Closing Date
2022-10-12
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Program Description

The Honours Bachelor of Community Mental Health (BCMH) degree offers students a holistic and interdisciplinary approach to the study of mental health and addictions. Students will learn about the social determinants of health, social justice and biopsychosocial frameworks to gain theoretical knowledge and practical experience in the delivery of community-based mental health and addictions services. 

The program’s focus on recovery-oriented mental health equips students with essential skills to analyze how services benefit individuals, families and communities. Students will explore a range of topics and evidence-based practices related to mental health and addictions including: therapeutic approaches, trauma informed practices, communication and counselling techniques and social determinants of health to promote healthy communities.
Throughout this program students will develop the following skills:
  • implement individual and community needs assessment plans
  • administer health and mental health education strategies, interventions and programs
  • conduct evaluation and research related to health and mental health
  • demonstrate critical thinking skills to assess recovery-oriented support services
When students graduate from this program, these are the types of career options that they can explore:
  • Addiction counsellor
  • Addiction worker
  • Harm reduction worker
  • Crisis intervention worker
  • Mental health worker
  • Overdose response worker
  • Addiction case worker
  • Addiction community worker

Extra Notes


* NOTE : The Tuition Fee is subject to change Semester wise, as such for exact Tuition Fee kindly see the Website of the respective University.
* NOTE : Pathways : Students who want to pursue a Graduate Degree through a particular University but are unable to meet the university requirements for the GPA, GRE/GMAT or English Language scores, have to take up an additional academic and language support i.e. pathways in order to ensure the admit and study at the desired University.