Unit Synopsis
This Unit is intended to provide you with advanced knowledge in health psychology and the components that encompass health psychology. The Unit will provide knowledge on behavioural medicine, rehabilitation practice, health prevention, health promotion, and well-being principles necessary for working as a Clinical Psychologist. The unit aims to build your competency in assessment, treatment planning and intervention for health and wellness within clinical psychology practice, using a culturally-responsive and reflective practice approach.
Details
| Level | Postgraduate |
|---|---|
| Unit Level | 9 |
| Credit Points | 6 |
| Student Contribution Band | SCA Band 4 |
| Fraction of Full-Time Student Load | 0.125 |
| Pre-requisites or Co-requisites |
There are no pre-requisites for the unit.
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework). |
| Class Timetable | View Unit Timetable |
| Residential School | No Residential School |
Unit Availabilities from Term 1 - 2026
Term 2 - 2026 Profile
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Postgraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Assessment Tasks
| Assessment Task | Weighting |
|---|---|
| 1. Written Assessment | 25% |
| 2. Direct observation of procedural skills (DOPs) | 50% |
| 3. Presentation | 25% |
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).
Past Exams
All University policies are available on the Policy web site, however you may wish to directly view the following policies below.
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of policies are available on the Policy web site.
Term 2 - 2025 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 33.33% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 50% response rate.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Source: Students' qualitative evaluations.
Some students felt that the number of tasks in an assessment was excessive.
Review assessments to see whether tasks within each assessment piece could be reduced.
A review of assessments was completed.
Source: Students' qualitative evaluations.
Students indicated that they would like more connection between unit content and assessment pieces.
It is recommended that the lecture content be reviewed to better align content to assessments.
Lecture content was reviewed and updated to better align with the assessments.
Source: Students' qualitative evaluations
Students wanted more contemporary materials.
Review materials to ensure materials are contemporary and, where older, relevant to topics covered.
A review of materials was completed to ensure all materials were relevant to topics covered.
Source: Student Feedback (Student Evaluations)
Students reported that they were not confident with the expectations of assessments.
It is recommended that assessment information sheets and marking criteria are reviewed to increase clarity.
In Progress
Source: Student Feedback (Student Evaluations)
Students reported that they struggled to apply the feedback given for the Motivational Interviewing videos (Assessment 2) in the required timeframes.
It is recommended that the due dates for Assessment 2 are reviewed to ensure students are given enough time to apply the feedback provided to scaffolded assessments.
In Progress
Source: Student Feedback (Student Evaluations)
Students reported that they enjoyed the learning content.
It is recommended that the learning materials, teaching content and schedule remain consistent for future deliveries of this unit.
In Progress
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
- Apply biopsychosocial models of health for person-centred and culturally responsive evidenced-based practice
- Demonstrate clinical skills and reflective practice in evidence-based health behaviour change interventions including motivational interviewing and relapse prevention
- Critically appraise and integrate recent and relevant literature into clinical practice specific to health psychology and rehabilitation in oral and written format.
These learning outcomes are intended to link with the CG17 Master of Clinical Psychology course Learning Outcome "Apply advanced knowledge of psychological, developmental, and biopsychosocial models of health, with consideration of culturally and linguistically diverse populations including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples" (Learning Outcome number 2).
The PSYC22002 Learning Outcomes align with the 2019 Australian Psychology Accreditation Council (APAC) accreditation guidelines for Level 4 Graduate Competencies (4.2.1.i, 4.2.1.ii, 4.2.2.i, 4.2.3.i, 4.2.3.iii,and 4.2.3.iv.), which are specific to culturally responsive biopsychosocial models of health and health rehabilitation in clinical psychology.
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| 1 - Written Assessment | • | • | |
| 2 - Direct observation of procedural skills (DOPs) | • | • | |
| 3 - Presentation | • | • | |
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| 1 - Knowledge | • | • | |
| 2 - Communication | • | • | |
| 3 - Cognitive, technical and creative skills | • | • | |
| 4 - Research | • | • | |
| 5 - Self-management | • | ||
| 6 - Ethical and Professional Responsibility | • | ||
| 7 - Leadership | • | ||
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 8 | |