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Unit Synopsis
Clinic Team III builds on Clinic Team II to provide you with advanced practice skills required for the professional competencies in clinical psychology specified by the Australian Psychology Accreditation Council (APAC) and to prepare you for the Registrar Program to gain an Area of Practice Endorsement in Clinical Psychology with the Psychology Board of Australia. This includes the culturally-sensitive, evidence-based practice of clinical psychology, both autonomously and as a member of a multidisciplinary team. During your clinical practicum in a community-based setting, you will continue to develop your knowledge and skills to formulate and share case conceptualisations and intervention plans.
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 |
Prerequisite: PSYC21008 Clinic Team II. 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 - 2023
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. Professional Practice Placement | 0% |
| 2. Reflective Practice Assignment | 0% |
| 3. Presentation | 0% |
| 4. Case Study | 0% |
This is a pass/fail (non-graded) unit. To pass the unit, you must pass all of the individual assessment tasks shown in the table above.
Past Exams
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Term 1 - 2024 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 83.33% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 46.15% 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: SUTE Unit Comments Report, T1 2023
Clarify and streamline administrative responsibilities.
Collaborate with Clinical Psychology Placement Coordinator and HMAS WIL team to clarify and streamline administrative processes.
Administrative communications continued throughout the term between placement coordinators, unit coordinators and students to streamline grading and unit requirements.
Source: Informal feedback
Students appreciated the weekly class session structure of discussion topic content, case presentation and group supervision.
Continue with the current class structure of learning activities with discussion topics, case presentations and group supervision of placements.
Based on informal student feedback, the format of learning activities, case presentations and topics was retained.
Source: Student SUTE evaluations
There was a focus on fostering a strong learning environment, asking questions to encourage thinking, demonstration of novel techniques, as well as thought processes which encouraged critical thinking.
Continue with this pedagogy for teaching within the Clinical Practice 3 classes.
In Progress
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
- Perform clinical psychology assessment, intervention and associated activities in a community-based clinical setting
- Apply ethical decision making in clinical psychological practice
- Communicate effectively and professionally with clients, specialist and nonspecialist audiences
- Critically reflect on knowledge, skills, and ability to provide psychological services in a community-based setting.
This unit forms part of the Master of Clinical Psychology course accredited by the Australian Psychology Accreditation Council (APAC). These Learning Outcomes link with the Master of Clinical Psychology course Learning Outcomes: 1 ( Apply culturally-sensitive advanced knowledge of psychological theories of the aetiology, presentation, and progression of psychological disorders across the lifespan and relevant international taxonomies of classification of psychological disorders), 2 (Apply advanced knowledge of psychological developmental and biopsychosocial models of health), 3 (Conduct culturally responsive assessment of psychological disorders), and 4 (Implement culturally-responsive, evidence-based, clinical psychology interventions). These Learning Outcomes also align with the 2019 APAC accreditation guidelines and in particular, Clinical Psychology guidelines 4.2.1, 4.2.2, and 4.2.3.
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 - Professional Practice Placement | • | |||
| 2 - Reflective Practice Assignment | • | • | ||
| 3 - Presentation | • | |||
| 4 - Case Study | • | • | • | |
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 - Knowledge | • | • | ||
| 2 - Communication | • | |||
| 3 - Cognitive, technical and creative skills | • | |||
| 5 - Self-management | • | • | • | |
| 6 - Ethical and Professional Responsibility | • | • | • | |
| 7 - Leadership | • | |||
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 8 | |