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PSYC21002 - Advanced Clinical Assessment

General Information

Unit Synopsis

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

Level Postgraduate
Unit Level 9
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 4
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.125
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).

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Unit Availabilities from Term 1 - 2026

Term 1 - 2026 Profile
Rockhampton

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).

Assessment Overview

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.

Assessment Tasks

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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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Previous Feedback

Term 1 - 2025 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 50.00% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 30.77% response rate.

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.

Source: Student SUTE feedback.
Feedback
A student suggested that the third Assessment Task - the Case Study Report - could be broken down into steps with each step being a focus of attention in weekly classes. This would allow students to apply their learning as they progress through the unit.
Recommendation
Review the structure and timing of the assessment task with a view to covering some of the specific psychometric tests in weekly classes. This will need to include sufficient flexibility for the weekly curriculum content to be relevant to a new case study for each year's Assessment Task.
Action Taken
Specific areas of assessment and specific psychometric tests were taught to students throughout the term.
Source: Lecturer reflection on unit.
Feedback
Learning resources need to be expanded. Due to a major revision of this unit there were not a lot of resources available to be uploaded to Moodle and the Psychology wellness centre did not have all tests taught in the unit.
Recommendation
Review the weekly content and source additional learning resources for Moodle. Consider whether additional relevant psychometric tests could be added to the Psychology Wellness Centre test library so that students can practice these tests in or between classes.
Action Taken
Weekly content was reviewed and specific areas of clinical assessment were delivered by experts in their fields. Availability of assessment instruments is an ongoing process.
Source: In class. SUTE comments.
Feedback
Assessment instruments need to be made readily available to students for completion of the neuropsychology report
Recommendation
Ensure that assessment instruments can be accessed by students.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: In class. SUTE comments.
Feedback
Submission of Assessment 2 and Assessment 3 were too close together and at the end of term.
Recommendation
Spread out the assessments across the term.
Action Taken
In Progress
Unit learning Outcomes
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