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Clinical Practice 3 builds on the prerequisite unit Clinical Practice 2 to provide you with advanced practice skills required for the professional competencies in clinical psychology specified by the Australian Psychology Accreditation Council (APAC) and to prepare you for the Registrar Program to gain an Area of Practice Endorsement in Clinical Psychology with the Psychology Board of Australia. This includes the culturally-sensitive, evidence-based practice of clinical psychology, both autonomously and as a member of a multidisciplinary team. During your clinical practicum in a community-based setting, you will continue to develop your knowledge and skills to formulate and share case conceptualisations and intervention plans.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Prerequisite: PSYC21008.
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 Student SUTE evaluations
There was a focus on fostering a strong learning environment, asking questions to encourage thinking, demonstration of novel techniques, as well as thought processes which encouraged critical thinking.
Continue with this pedagogy for teaching within the Clinical Practice 3 classes.
- Demonstrates the core competencies required for registration as a psychologist in Australia, as defined by AHPRA/PBA, including knowledge of psychology to inform safe and effective practice, ethical practice, professional reflexivity and self-care, assessment, intervention, communication, and culturally responsive practice.
- Demonstrate effective engagement in supervision and skill development, including providing clear work samples for review, being able to accurately reflect on own clinical practice, seeking feedback, and applying supervisors' guidance to improve clinical practice in a community-based setting
- Demonstrate professional skills in case presentation and report writing
This unit forms part of the Master of Clinical Psychology course accredited by the Australian Psychology Accreditation Council (APAC). In addition to advanced knowledge and skills for professional practice in psychology as they relate to practice placements (APAC competencies 3.1 - 3.17), this unit includes the specialised knowledge and skills in the endorsed area of practice, clinical psychology (APAC competencies: 4.2.1 - 4.2.3). The practice placement covers the application of psychological knowledge to practice to demonstrate the AHPRA competencies for practice as a registered psychologist in Australia.
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| 1 - Professional Practice Placement - 0% | |||
| 2 - Presentation - 0% | |||
| 3 - Case Study - 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 | |||