1. Placement Agreement. You will complete a Placement Agreement, co-signed by your supervisor and the placement coordinator, and submit it to Moodle by the due date.   

2. Psychologist Competencies Assessed at Mid and End-of-Placement Reviews. By the End-of-Placement Review, you will demonstrate Level 2 competence in nine core competencies representing critical capabilities and attributes for effective psychological practice. Competencies 1 - 8 are specified by AHPRA and Competency 9 is a requirement of the Master of Clinical Psychology Course. Level 2 competence is required before a supervisee can progress to Clinical Practice 3.

Your Mid-Placement Review and End-of-Placement Review must be signed by yourself, your Primary Supervisor, and the Placement Coordinator. If you have not met all competencies by your End-of-Placement Review you may be provided with a further opportunity to meet these competencies. However, this is up to the discretion of the Unit Coordinator in consultation with the Head of Course. 

3. Log of Clinical Practice (Logbook). You will submit a log of practice hours signed by your Primary Supervisor detailing the total number of direct client activity hours, individual supervision hours, group supervision hours, and associated placement activities. You will also submit completed supervision forms, corresponding to the hours included in your log. If a logbook is incorrect or incomplete, you will have one opportunity to resubmit with the correct and complete details provided. 

4. Interprofessional Education (IPE). You will participate in two IPE group meetings to develop a group assessment plan, an intervention plan and two reflections. 

Placement Portfolio:  AI Assessment scale tool descriptors:  Level 1.  No AI. The 72-hour grace period does not apply to this assessment.

1. Placement Agreement. You will submit your completed Placement Agreement to Moodle, signed by you, your supervisor, and the placement coordinator.

2. Psychologist Competencies Assessed at Mid and End-of-Placement Reviews.

You will submit your completed Mid and End-of-Placement Reviews (and any support plans, if required), signed by you, your supervisor, and the placement coordinator. 

You will be 'on track' for each of the following competencies to pass your End-of-Placement Review:
1. Knowledge of the Discipline. The student demonstrates using multiple knowledge sources and can independently apply knowledge to inform evidence-based practice.
2. Ethical, Legal, and Professional Matters. The student demonstrates appropriate awareness and action to ethical issues and higher levels of client risk by asking appropriate follow-up questions with minimal supervision. The student keeps timely and adequate client records.
3. Psychological Assessment and Measurement. The student demonstrates, with minimal supervision, accurate scoring, and interpretation of a complex assessment (typically addressing the question of ADHD or Autism) and completes a brief and relevant structured report addressing a broad range of domains of functioning. With their supervisor’s guidance, the student demonstrates differential diagnosis skills, integrated opinions, and recommendations consistent with the assessment results.
4. Intervention Strategies. With minimal supervision, the student demonstrates an appropriate balance between purposeful therapeutic tasks and maintaining rapport. The student shows a proper balance between providing appropriate direction and following the client’s lead. The student is respectful and flexibly chooses approaches that fit the client’s current needs. The student can work systemically and collaboratively with all clients with a range of issues (e.g., working with child & parent issues). The student's interventions are respectful, collaborative, flexible, purposeful, and systemic with minimal supervisor guidance.
5. Research and evaluation. The student demonstrates the use of a broad range of methods to assess interventions' effectiveness and discusses the findings with clients to inform practice with appropriate supervision. The student demonstrates accountability to outcomes by consistent methods to measure the effectiveness of interventions.
6. Communication and interpersonal skills. The student demonstrates the ability to communicate clearly, concisely, and respectfully with a range of audiences, and in written and verbal form, with some supervision. The student can self-identify when they need to adapt their communication to the situation and do so with minimal supervision.
7. Working with People from diverse groups. The student demonstrates self-awareness, self-reflection, and self-directed learning to modify their work with people from diverse groups with help from a supervisor.
8. Practice across the lifespan. The student demonstrates competency in working with children, adolescents, and adults to complete more complex interventions and assessments.
9. Response to Supervision. The student demonstrates active development in their strengths and growth areas through supervision. The student self-assessment of their competency levels is accurate. The student actively seeks opportunities to seek feedback on their practice.

3. Log of Clinical Practice (Logbook). You will submit a log of practice hours, signed by you and your primary supervisor, detailing the total number of direct client activity hours, individual supervision hours, group supervision hours, and associated placement activities. You will also submit completed supervision forms from individual and group supervision. All supervision entries in your logbook must have a corresponding supervision form signed by you and the supervisor who provided the supervision. All client hours logged must be consistent with bookings in the Cliniko diary.

4. Interprofessional Education (IPE). You will submit your IPE group's Assessment Plan and Intervention Plan, each with a corresponding reflection to Moodle. Each plan needs to include the following criteria:

• Assessment/Intervention Plans
• All relevant sections of the plan are completed
• Presenting problems, client/family, and assessment/intervention goals are clearly outlined
• Assessment/Intervention plan links to family and care team goals

After each multi-disciplinary team meeting, you will also write a 250-word reflection using the provided checklist for team meeting observations as a guide. You will submit one (1) reflection for the assessment plan meeting and one (1) reflection for the intervention plan meeting; two (2) reflections in total.

Reflection critieria:

• Meeting observations are succinctly described
• Demonstrated critical reflection, including reflexivity
• Provision of a clear connection between reflections and future practice
• Professional writing style, using APA formatting and referencing conventions, within the word limit (250 words

Each part of the Placement Portfolio assessment is completed entirely without Al assistance in a controlled environment, ensuring that students rely solely on their existing knowledge, understanding, and skills.  You must not use Al at any point during the assessment. You must demonstrate your core skills and knowledge. The 72-hour grace period does not apply to this assessment.

You will write a fortnightly reflective journal of no more than one page on average (250 - 300 words). Each reflection will demonstrate the nexus of learning between placement activities, supervision, lectures, and professional reading. The reflections will be used to reflect on experiences and conversations that have stimulated your thinking about your practice and development as a psychologist.

You must submit your reflection to your primary supervisor for feedback, and also submit a copy to Moodle by Monday at 9 am (commencing in Week 3) for the fortnight before, with the last submission in the Review/Exam Week.

AI Assessment scale tool descriptors:  Level 1.  No AI. The 72-hour grace period does not apply to this assessment.

You must pass each of the six journal submissions to pass the Reflective Journal (Pass/Fail). Each journal submission will demonstrate self-reflection on your practice as a psychologist, including reflections on what you are learning about your practice through the placement experience, your emerging strengths, and areas for development. Journal submissions will include reflection on the tasks and process of working with clients and other stakeholders. If your supervisor advises the Unit Coordinator that any journal submission lacks sufficient reflection on your practice, the Unit Coordinator may require you to resubmit to demonstrate self-reflection before the journal submission is passed.

Each part of the Placement Portfolio assessment is completed entirely without Al assistance in a controlled environment, ensuring that students rely solely on their existing knowledge, understanding, and skills.  You must not use Al at any point during the assessment. You must demonstrate your core skills and knowledge. The 72-hour grace period does not apply to this assessment.

You will present at a case presentation in class, during group supervision. You will have 30 minutes for your presentation, including presenting your case study (~10 minutes), group discussion and case formulation (~15 minutes), and presenting your case formulation, prepared earlier (~5 minutes). The case can be any client you have seen in the Psychology Wellness Centre in Term 2. The presentation should include relevant referral information, details of presenting concerns, your comprehensive needs assessment, completing a formulation with the group, and discussion of differential diagnosis (where applicable), explaining your formulation (prepared before the group formulation activity), and your plan for assessment or intervention.

Presentations will take place between Weeks 2 to 11. Before class on the day you present, you will upload a summary of your presentation and your formulation to Moodle.  

AI Assessment scale tool descriptors:  Level 1.  No AI. The 72-hour grace period does not apply to this assessment.

To achieve a Pass, your case presentation will provide sufficient information to inform the group discussion and formulation, and your case formulation will be consistent with the case information presented. You will not be graded on the content of the group discussion but on your skills in facilitating the completion of a case formulation with the group.  You need to pass each section (1 - 3) to pass this assessment. 

1. Case Presentation. Your presentation will include Relevant referral information (including client initials or pseudonym), gender, age, referral source, and the reason for referral, completed comprehensive needs assessment with sufficient information to complete a case formulation
2. Group Discussion. You will facilitate the completion of a case formulation with the group, including a discussion of differential diagnosis (where relevant).
3. Presentation of Your Case Formulation. Your case formulation will be consistent with the case information presented. You will also provide a summary of the assessment or intervention to date (as relevant).

The assessment is completed entirely without Al assistance in a controlled environment, ensuring that students rely solely on their existing knowledge, understanding, and skills.  You must not use Al at any point during the assessment. You must demonstrate your core skills and knowledge. The 72-hour grace period does not apply to this assessment.

This case report is the second of four case studies you will write over the Master of Clinical Psychology course. This case report covers a core skill of a clinical psychologist: to write professional assessment reports. You will write a report on one of the clients you have seen during your external placement. The report should be deidentified by removing names, date of birth (but retain year/age) and any other identifying information such as place of work. The report must be submitted with a cover page template and follow the described format of AHPRA Form SCIC-76: Submission checklist for intervention case report. The placement supervisor needs to sign the cover sheet to acknowledge that the report has been de-identified to meet the privacy requirements of the agency.  

AI Assessment scale tool descriptors:  Level 1.  No AI. The 72-hour grace period does not apply to this assessment.

Case Report (Pass/Fail).  The report will follow the format specified in APHRA form SCIC-76: Submission checklist for intervention case report including the following criteria: A) Background, B) Assessment, C) Analysis and Diagnosis, D) Plan and Implementation, E) Evaluation and Reflections, and F) Reference List. To pass this assessment, the student must identify that all criteria,  including under the headings A - F  on AHPRA Form SCIC-76 have been completed to the professional standard required for a provisional psychologist. The report must be submitted with a cover page template, available on Moodle, signed by the Primary Supervisor. The report must not exceed 2000 words (excluding references). 

The assessment is completed entirely without Al assistance in a controlled environment, ensuring that students rely solely on their existing knowledge, understanding, and skills.  You must not use Al at any point during the assessment. You must demonstrate your core skills and knowledge. The 72-hour grace period does not apply to this assessment.

This task is a presentation of a 10-minute video recording of you conducting an intervention in the clinic. In the recording, you should demonstrate the appropriate use of a range of intervention skills at Level 2 competency. You also need to present a critique of your video. The video file is to be saved to your student folder on the Wellness Centre Drive and reviewed with your Primary Supervisor. The critique, signed by your Primary Supervisor along with an assessment of skill (pass/fail/resubmit) is to be uploaded to Moodle.

AI Assessment scale tool descriptors:  Level 1.  No AI. The 72-hour grace period does not apply to this assessment.

Primary Supervisor's feedback and grade (Pass/Fail): Students are not expected to conduct a perfect session but are to demonstrate a Level 2 competency and provide an accurate reflection of the intervention. The student submits the supervisor's signed feedback with the grade and the student's reflection on the intervention. Level 2 competency for Intervention: The student demonstrates awareness of balance issues between task and process and can self-correct with supervisor guidance (e.g., switch between purposeful tasks and rapport building). The student seeks client feedback. The student's reflection on their intervention should include: Brief description of the video (e.g., 12 y.o. girl, CBT intervention for anxiety, excerpt from Session #5); Strengths; Areas for improvement / what did not go well; What could
be done differently to improve practice.

The assessment is completed entirely without Al assistance in a controlled environment, ensuring that students rely solely on their existing knowledge, understanding, and skills.  You must not use Al at any point during the assessment. You must demonstrate your core skills and knowledge. The 72-hour grace period does not apply to this assessment.