School: Arts and Humanities

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  • Unit Title

    Clinical Psychology Practicum 1
  • Unit Code

    PSY6330
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    A/Prof Mike MONISSE-REDMAN

Description

This unit enables students to learn practical skills with clients under supervision of a registered clinical psychologist.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

Practicum may extend beyond semester dates to meet all requirements

Co-Requisite Rule

Must have passed or be concurrently enrolled in PSY6150, PSY6190, PSY6260

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded PSY5330

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply knowledge of relevant ethical, legal and professional requirements to practice safely under close supervision in a psychological setting.
  2. Employ effective relational and interpersonal communication skills in psychological practice with clients, colleagues and other professionals.
  3. Conduct clinical assessments and integrate assessment information with theory and literature to develop a case conceptualisation, interpret functioning, manage risk, and plan and implement evidence-based psychological interventions.
  4. Communicate effectively in a culturally responsive manner in written and oral forms for a range of audiences.
  5. Engage in self-reflective professional practice to set and monitor learning goals in supervised practice.

Unit Content

  1. Application of ethics and legal issues to clinical practice.
  2. Professional and relational skills.
  3. Clinical assessment, case formulation and intervention skills in practice with children, adolescents and adults.
  4. Scientist-Practitioner model in practice.
  5. Self-reflection skills in practice.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Formats include direct observation of performance, videotaping of student and client interactions, direct feedback from supervisors, case presentations, and review of report and other documents. Experiential exercises for authenticity of learning professional skills, reflective practice in session, group practice of therapy skills.

Assessment

GS2 GRADING SCHEMA 2 Used for Undifferentiated Pass/Fail units inc. practical units or work-integrated learning

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescription
Practicum ^Clinical practicum evaluation

^ Mandatory to Pass


Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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