APPLIED

PSYCHOLOGY
BACHELOR OF
SOCIAL SCIENCE
HONOURS IN PSYCHOLOGY
[BPSYCH EQUIVALENT PROGRAMME]
• A powerful professional training course set at an Honours level.
• A focused degree in Psychology that meets the requirements for
professional registration as a Registered Counsellor with the
Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA).

Our BPsych Equivalent Programme is ideal for those who want to build on their three-year
undergraduate degree with Psychology as a major. The qualification will prepare you for the scope
of practice of a Registered Counsellor that upon successful registration with the HPCSA, will
enable you to work with people at community level.

The programme’s focus is on psychological screening, rudimentary assessment, short-term

supportive counselling, and psycho-educational interventions (in alignment with the scope of
practice for the Registered Counsellor) with the aim of developing and promoting the psychosocial
wellbeing of individuals, families, groups and communities in South Africa. This qualification also
provides multiple pathways for academic or professional Master’s degree studies in Psychology,
Social Sciences and other cognate fields.

CPT I DUR I JHB I PTA I ONLINE

www.sacap.edu.za 0860 77 11 11
 Course Details

DURATION:
18 months, full-time only

MODULES:
9 modules

SAQA REGISTRATION:
SAQA ID 96448, NQF 8
Build on your
undergraduate degree with ACCREDITATION:
HPCSA approved
this qualification that meets the
PRACTICUM:
training requirements for professional 6-months full-time (720
registration as a Registered Counsellor hours), including supervision

with the HPCSA. FACULTY:

Applied Psychology

Admission Requirements:
• A minimum of an appropriate
Bachelor’s degree (NQF Level 7) or
BENEFITS AT A GLANCE appropriate Advanced Diploma with
a Psychology major, having achieved
This degree is a good choice if you:
a grade point average (GPA) of 65%
• Have an interest in social transformation and a concern for the mental and above in all Psychology subjects
health care needs of people in South Africa. undertaken in the exit level/final year of
• Want to write the board exam to become a Registered Counsellor working at study OR
primary mental health care level in a community setting. • Applicants 24 years of age and
• Want a qualification that will prepare you for the scope of practice of a older who do not meet the above
Registered Counsellor. requirements should provide a
• Want to conduct community-based research, under the supervision of a portfolio of evidence demonstrating
professional, in your area of interest. formal, informal and non-formal
knowledge, training, work experience
• Want to prepare for Psychometry or an academic or professional Master’s
and/or learning in a cognate field of
degree in Clinical, Counselling, Educational or Research Psychology as
study equivalent to an NQF Level 7
additional career paths.
qualification to support admission to the
programme on the basis of Recognition
LEARN MORE of Prior Learning (RPL).

Get in touch with an admissions officer by calling 0860 77 11 11

or visiting our website at www.sacap.edu.za

@sacapedu

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