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This unit is intended to provide you with advanced knowledge and skill acquisition at the Australian Psychology Accreditation Council (APAC) Accreditation Standards Level 4, which represents professional and specialised areas of practice competencies necessary for working as a Clinical Psychologist. Specifically, this unit aims to build your competency in assessment research, theory, and practice of more complex psychological pathology and presentations. This will include a specific focus on memory and personality assessments, and neuropsychological assessment in clinical practice. You will build knowledge and skills specific to culturally-responsive reflective practice approaches to psychological assessment, which will be integrated throughout the teaching, learning, and assessment within this unit.
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Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
For students enrolled in CG17 Master of Clinical Psychology, the units PSYC21001 Assessment 1 and PSYC21008 Clinical Practice 2 are prerequisites. For students enrolled in CM49 Master of Clinical Psychology Advanced Entry, the unit PSYC21008 Clinical Practice 2 is a prerequisite.
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).
Offerings For Term 1 - 2026
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.
Class Timetable
Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
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.
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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.
Feedback from In class. SUTE comments.
Assessment instruments need to be made readily available to students for completion of the neuropsychology report
Ensure that assessment instruments can be accessed by students.
Feedback from In class. SUTE comments.
Submission of Assessment 2 and Assessment 3 were too close together and at the end of term.
Spread out the assessments across the term.
- Demonstrate use of assessment tools and processes, including psychometric tests, structured or semi-structured interview data, behavioural observations, measures of functionality, and processes that enable the collection of collateral information from multiple sources.
- Integrate, interpret, and synthesise clinical psychological assessment data with knowledge of psychopathology to inform case formulation, diagnosis, and intervention.
- Apply advanced psychology knowledge to culturally responsive assessment in the area of clinical psychology.
These Learning Outcomes are intended to link with the CG17 Master of Clinical Psychology course Learning Outcome "Conduct culturally responsive assessment of psychological disorders to meet the needs of culturally and linguistically diverse populations, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples" (Learning Outcome number 3).
The PSYC21002 Learning Outcomes align with the 2019 Australian Psychology Accreditation Council (APAC) accreditation guidelines for Level 4 Graduate Competencies specific to assessment in clinical psychology, specifically Guidelines 4.2.1 Apply advanced psychological knowledge to their practice of clinical psychology and 4.2.2 Apply advanced psychological knowledge to culturally responsive assessment in the area of clinical psychology.
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| 1 - Written Assessment - 0% | |||
| 2 - Direct observation of procedural skills (DOPs) - 0% | |||
| 3 - Written Assessment - 0% | |||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
| 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 | |||
| 8 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | |||