School: Arts and Humanities

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  • Unit Title

    Clinical Psychology Practicum 3
  • Unit Code

    PSY6350
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Raffi SALVO

Description

This unit enables students to learn practical skills with clients under the supervision of a registered psychologist. Students will complete a practicum placement in an area of clinical psychology practice including both government and non-government agencies.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

Practicum may extend beyond semester period in order for students to meet all requirements

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Collaborate and communicate effectively with colleagues in the workplace, apply all ethical, legal and professional requirements, and operate within the bounds of professional competence as a psychologist at entry to practice level.
  2. Apply advanced psychological knowledge with a high level of autonomy to perform clinical assessments in a culturally responsive manner, and integrate assessment information with theory and literature to inform case formulation, diagnosis, and intervention.
  3. Apply advanced psychological knowledge and skills with a high level of autonomy to implement culturally responsive and evidence-based psychological interventions for moderate to severe and complex clinical presentations.
  4. Interpret and communicate psychological information in a culturally responsive manner in written and oral forms to clients and other professionals with limited supervisory input.
  5. Engage in self-reflective practice to further evolve their professional identity and effectiveness under supervision through reviewing previously implemented improvement strategies and adapting accordingly.

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 complex mental health presentations.
  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

Direct observation of performance, videotaping of student and client interactions, direct feedback from supervisors, case presentations and review of reports 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 ^Practicum placement 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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