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Please note that this Unit Profile is still in progress. The content below is subject to change.Overview
This Unit is intended to provide you with advanced knowledge in health psychology and the components that encompass health psychology. The Unit will provide knowledge on behavioural medicine, rehabilitation practice, health prevention, health promotion, and well-being principles necessary for working as a Clinical Psychologist. The unit aims to build your competency in assessment, treatment planning and intervention for health and wellness within clinical psychology practice, using a culturally-responsive and reflective practice approach.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
There are no requisites for this unit.
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 2 - 2025
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 graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of 'pass' in order to pass the unit. If any 'pass/fail' tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully ('pass' grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the 'assessment task' section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%). Consult the University's Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades.
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
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure - Domestic Students
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure - International Students
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Student Feedback - Compliments and 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 Students' qualitative evaluations.
Some students felt that the number of tasks in an assessment was excessive.
Review assessments to see whether tasks within each assessment piece could be reduced.
Feedback from Students' qualitative evaluations.
Students indicated that they would like more connection between unit content and assessment pieces.
It is recommended that the lecture content be reviewed to better align content to assessments.
Feedback from Students' qualitative evaluations
Students wanted more contemporary materials.
Review materials to ensure materials are contemporary and, where older, relevant to topics covered.
- Apply biopsychosocial models of health for person-centred and culturally responsive evidenced-based practice
- Demonstrate clinical skills and reflective practice in evidence-based health behaviour change interventions including motivational interviewing and relapse prevention
- Critically appraise and integrate recent and relevant literature into clinical practice specific to health psychology and rehabilitation in oral and written format.
These learning outcomes are intended to link with the CG17 Master of Clinical Psychology course Learning Outcome "Apply advanced knowledge of psychological, developmental, and biopsychosocial models of health, with consideration of culturally and linguistically diverse populations including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples" (Learning Outcome number 2).
The PSYC22002 Learning Outcomes align with the 2019 Australian Psychology Accreditation Council (APAC) accreditation guidelines for Level 4 Graduate Competencies (4.2.1.i, 4.2.1.ii, 4.2.2.i, 4.2.3.i, 4.2.3.iii,and 4.2.3.iv.), which are specific to culturally responsive biopsychosocial models of health and health rehabilitation in clinical psychology.
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| 1 - Written Assessment - 25% | |||
| 2 - Direct observation of procedural skills (DOPs) - 50% | |||
| 3 - Presentation - 25% | |||
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 | |||