Overview
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.
Details
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 - 2027
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).
All University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
You may wish to view these policies:
- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Academic Progression Policy and Procedure
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Complaints Policy and Procedure
- Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy and Procedure
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
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 Verbal student feedback during Residential School
Students expressed in an interest in additional neuropsychology content to support the completion of assessment tasks.
Provide additional foundational neuropsychology resources and learning activities to support students' assessment and case formulation skills.
Feedback from Verbal student feedback
Students appreciated the distribution of assessment tasks across the term.
Continue to maintain an appropriate spread of assessment submission dates across the term to support student workload management and progressive development of competencies.