This task is a 30-minute presentation of a 10-minute recording of you conducting a counselling session with a classmate role-playing your client. In the recording, you should demonstrate appropriate use of a range of micro counselling skills. You also need to present a critique fo your video. Both files (the counselling video and the critique) are uploaded to Moodle before your presentation. You will have 20 minutes for your presentation plus 10 minutes of discussion time in class.

If your video is too big to submit via Moodle, you may save it on your Wellness Centre drive and add a link into your critique document. You also need to have a copy on a memory stick for playing in class on Wednesday.

Assignment marker’s feedback and grade:

• Strengths
• What did not go well
• What could be done differently to improve your session?
• Further support/reading to develop skills
• Other (Including timekeeping and audience engagement in the presentation).

Students are not expected to conduct a perfect session but are expected to uphold a reasonable standard of skill and an accurate critique of their own performance.

The ethics test will be held in class on Monday 22 March. Students should bring their laptop computer to class to do this test. Please inform the Unit Coordinator in advance if you cannot bring a laptop in which case a computer will be provided for you. Students who do not pass this test will be offered an opportunity to resit but will not be permitted to commence client-related work until the test has been passed.

Your critique will be assessed according to the following criteria:

• Identification of any personal needs, sources of information and responsibility
• Clear description and identification of ethical dilemma
• Clear discussion of factors involved in the ethical dilemma
• Identification and evaluation of action and alternatives
• Negatives and positives of each action described
• Description of your choice of action
• Explanation of why you chose this action above the others

This is a case presentation done in class in Group Supervision time. You will have a total of 30 minutes for your presentation, which should be around 20 minutes of you presenting your case study, followed by 10 minutes of questions and discussion time. The case can be any client you have seen in the Wellness Centre. The presentation should include information from the intake interview and any other relevant information you have such as referrer reports or test data. You should present your 5P formulation, a differential diagnosis and a one-paragraph written formulation, as well as your plan for further assessment or intervention. You should engage the class in questions and discussion.

The Case Presentation is graded Pass/Fail. In order to achieve a grade of Pass, the presentation should include:

•  Background (Client Initials or Pseudonym, Gender, Age, Referral source, Reason for Referral, School & Grade, Family/ Lives with)
•  Presenting problems
•  Previous Assessments & Interventions
•  History, including Education & Medical
•  General Functioning (E.g.: Sleep, Eating, Organisational skills, Social Skills)
•  Interview with Child
•  Case Formulation - 5 P's (Group does this together)
•  Differential diagnosis
•  Initial Written Formulation
•  Plan for Further Assessment and/or Treatment.
• Questions and discussion time
  

• In the reflective journal, you explore your own developing professional identity as a clinical psychologist and the relationship between your course experiences and changing sense of professional self.

• Whilst there are no specific rules around word limits, it is expected that you would write 400-500 words per week in weeks 5 to 12. The journal is to be submitted in Moodle weekly.

The journal must be a reasonable attempt at self-reflection. If any student's journal is consistently lacking in reflective ability, this will be discussed with the Unit Coordinator and some additional remedial work may be required before the assessment task is passed.

This is the first of the four Case Study Reports that you will submit in the four Clinic Team units (Clinic Team I, II, III, and IV). For Clinic Team I, your Case Report is a completed client report from an assessment you have done in your Wellness Centre placement this term. The report for Clinic Team I must be deidentified, but does not need any other edits or additions. The report should be countersigned by your supervisor to verify that the report is your own work and that the case has been sufficiently deidentified.

The report is a deidentified copy of a report that you have written for a client. As such, it will have been reviewed and signed by your Clinical Supervisor. Therefore, the report must be of a sufficiently high standard that your supervisor has signed it for it to be given to a client.

This assessment item consists of all placement-related documents:

• Placement agreement
• Mid-placement review
• End of placement review including logbook summary page
  
• IPE Assessment and intervention plans using the templates that will be provided ion Moodle
  

The two Placement Review forms must be signed by yourself, your supervisor and the Placement Coordinator and must each be uploaded to Moodle. The End of Placement Review form must indicate that you have achieved sufficient competencies to pass the placement and must have a signed summary page from your logbook attached.

The criteria are set out on the Placement Review forms and cover the core competency areas which define the critical capabilities and attributes deemed necessary to ensure that graduates are equipped to practice psychology safely and effectively subsequent to graduation. It is expected that across the entire Master of Clinical Psychology course students will demonstrate incremental development across these competency areas. It would be expected therefore that for initial placements students may well be rated at a beginner level. In addition to these core competencies, the student and supervisor are asked to reflect on the student’s response to supervision. While it is acceptable to be at level 1 (Beginner) at mid-placement review, there should be some evidence of the development of competencies by the end of the placement, with the expected average rating of 1.5 by the end of placement review.

A template will be provided for the IPE plans.

To pass this assessment task, all documents must be submitted.