CQUniversity Unit Profile.

This assessment requires you to develop and write a CBT Intervention Plan. The Intervention Plan will be based on a case formulation with identified treatment goals, intervention strategies to achieve these goals and consideration of approaches for managing risk factors. The intervention plan will be clearly linked to the case formulation (developed in class) and include relevant evidence-based theories for intervention approaches. You will describe how to adjust the CBT intervention plan based on evolving case formulation, using culturally responsive processes (based on additional information provided). You will include consideration of how to evaluate the effectiveness of the intervention plan outlined. Your reference list will be formatted in the American Psychological Association (APA) conventions with a word limit of 1000 words (excluding references).

The Intervention Plan will be marked out of 100. You must get a mark of 70 or greater to pass. Please use the below criteria as a guide. A more detailed marking rubric for each strategy will be available on the Unit's Moodle page under the Assessment tab.

Assessment criteria will be based upon demonstration of the following:

1. Clear and specific goals, with a rationale explaining how they are linked to the case formulation. This includes adjustments made for culturally appropriate practices.
2. Description of the intervention plan (including the structure of sessions, intervention strategies that will be used to achieve goals, the order of interventions and expected length of treatment and plans for managing risks if these are indicated), with reference to the relevant evidence-based literature. 
3. Description of the adjustments you would make to the intervention, based on the evolving case information, with an evidence-based rationale for the changes.
4. Description of how you would evaluate the effectiveness of the intervention, using person-centred and evidence-based measures of change.

This assessment requires you to demonstrate relevant therapeiutic skills in the introduction, education and implementation of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) related interventions (for child and/or adult clients). You will submit 3 videos of 5-10 minutes each. The videos are to demonstrate your approach to the professional practice skills of CBT interventions with a simulated adult/child client, role-played by another student in the unit.

For the video submissions you will demonstrate:

1) The application of a specific CBT strategy, adapted to be developmentally and culturally appropriate for your client,

2) Collaborative empiricism (i.e. collaboratively working with the client, using relevant evidence to inform treatment) and

3) Professional communication with your client.

You will be provided with referral information and intake notes for your simulated client and advised of the CBT strategies that you are to demonstrate during residential school (Week 3).

You will receive feedback after each video, allowing you to improve on your skills as well as incorporating this feedback in your subsequent video submission. This allows you to exhibit your learning process through the term and through the submittance of the videos.

• The first skills demonstration video is due in Week 4 (Friday March 29th at 4:59PM AEST).
• The second skills demonstration video is due in Week 7 (Friday April 26th at 4:59PM AEST).
• The third skills demonstration video is due in Week 11 (Friday May 24th at 4:59PM AEST).

Each of the videos will be marked out of 50 and you must get a mark of 35/50 or greater to pass each video set.

Please use the below criteria as a guide. A more detailed marking rubric for each strategy will be available on the Unit's Moodle page under the Assessment tab.

Assessment criteria will be based upon demonstration of the following:

1. Effectively uses a CBT strategy (as advised in residential school Week 3) to work with a simulated client in ways that are developmentally and culturally appropriate.

2. In each video, there is demonstrated:

a) Collaborative empiricism (i.e., collaboratively working with the client in flexible manner that meets the needs of the client, using relevant evidence to inform treatment).

b) Professional communication, including the expression of appropriate empathy, accurate understanding, appropriate professional boundaries, and eliciting and providing feedback.

c) Appropriateness of pacing and each demonstrated CBT related therapeutic skill and intervention is strictly 5-10 minutes each. 

This assessment will require you to choose 2 additional CBT techniques/strategies which you will use and explore for at least three (3) days. You will then provide a written reflection of your thoughts and experience of each technique/strategy, how easy or hard you found using the technique/strategy, and how it has informed your consideration and practice for implementation and work with clients. The word limit for this reflection is 1000 words (+ or - 10%), not including a reference list you may include. This allows approximately 500 words for each technique/intervention strategy. 

Each of the two strategies will assessed out of 30, with a total mark of 60. Therefore, you need a mark of 42 or greater to pass this assessment task.

Please use the below criteria as a guide. More detailed assessment information and the marking rubric for each strategy will be available on the Unit's Moodle page under the Assessment tab.

Assessment criteria reflects the following:

1) Brief explanation of technique (e.g. What is the technique; Why and when used; Consideration of context with a client).

2) Strengths and/or limitations identified with the technique.

3) Describe connection between personal experience and professional context.

4) Describe connection between learning and future practice.