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PSYCM7012 - Professional Practice: Stage 2
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<p>This unit provides students with their first opportunity to integrate and apply foundational psychological knowledge and skills in a supervised professional placement. Students develop competence in culturally responsive and culturally safe psychological assessment, formulation, intervention, progress monitoring and professional communication. They apply ethical, legal and professional standards to clinical decision-making, documentation and practice.</p>
<p>Through clinical supervision, feedback and critical reflection, students evaluate their developing competence, consider the influence of personal values and cultural assumptions, recognise psychosocial risks, and apply self-care principles. Students also develop effective clinical records, reports and logbooks and collaborate respectfully with other professionals to support coordinated, person-centred psychological care.</p>
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<p>Topics may include:</p>
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<li>Orientation to the placement agency</li>
<li>Utilising clinical supervision effectively</li>
<li>Receiving and responding to feedback</li>
<li>Managing a caseload</li>
<li>Assessment and clinical interventions</li>
<li>Managing client-related documentation appropriately</li>
<li>Ethical and professional psychological practice</li>
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Unit description
<p>This unit provides students with their first opportunity to integrate and apply foundational psychological knowledge and skills in a supervised professional placement. Students develop competence in culturally responsive and culturally safe psychological assessment, formulation, intervention, progress monitoring and professional communication. They apply ethical, legal and professional standards to clinical decision-making, documentation and practice.</p> <p>Through clinical supervision, feedback and critical reflection, students evaluate their developing competence, consider the influence of personal values and cultural assumptions, recognise psychosocial risks, and apply self-care principles. Students also develop effective clinical records, reports and logbooks and collaborate respectfully with other professionals to support coordinated, person-centred psychological care.</p>
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<p>Topics may include:</p> <ul> <li>Orientation to the placement agency</li> <li>Utilising clinical supervision effectively</li> <li>Receiving and responding to feedback</li> <li>Managing a caseload</li> <li>Assessment and clinical interventions</li> <li>Managing client-related documentation appropriately</li> <li>Ethical and professional psychological practice</li> </ul>
Key information
Institute / school:
Institute of Health and Wellbeing
Discipline:
Psychology
Study level:
Postgraduate - Coursework
Credit points:
15
EFTSL:
0.125
Field of education:
090701 - Psychology
Offering:
<p><strong>Semester 1</strong><p>Ballarat - Mt Helen (On Campus)</p><p>Flexible Delivery - Berwick (Blended)</p></p> <p><strong>Semester 2</strong><p>Ballarat - Mt Helen (On Campus)</p><p>Blended Delivery - Berwick (Blended)</p><p>Flexible Delivery - Berwick (Blended)</p></p>
Grade scheme:
Ungraded (e.g. S-Satisfactory, UN-Unsatisfactory)
Placement component:
Yes
Placement hours:
315
Fee information:
<a href="http://www.federation.edu.au/locate/unit/psycm7012">View unit fees</a>
Requisites
Prerequisite
<p>must have completed <a href="/ords/r/curriculum/catalogue/course?p6_code=PSYCM7011" target="_blank">PSYCM7011</a>/<a href="/ords/r/curriculum/catalogue/course?p6_code=PSYCM7017" target="_blank">PSYCM7017</a></p>
Corequisite
None
Exclusion
<p>must not have completed PSYCM7109</p>
Learning outcomes
Learning outcomes
<p>On successful completion of this unit, students are expected to gain the following [K]nowledge, [S]kills and [A]pplication of knowledge & skills</p>
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<p>Select, administer, score and interpret psychometric measures in culturally responsive and safe ways; to inform evidence-based formulation and treatment planning, evaluate progress and guide intervention. </p>
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<p>Plan and implement evidence-based, culturally responsive and culturally safe psychological interventions appropriate to the client’s presenting mental health problem, developmental stage, sociocultural context and the professional setting.</p>
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<p>Demonstrate professional and culturally responsive written and verbal communication skills, including clinical interviewing, clinical records, psychological reports, logbooks and interprofessional communication.</p>
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<p>Apply ethical, legal and professional standards, including principles of cultural safety and the ethical and competent use of digital technologies, to psychological assessment, intervention, documentation and decision-making.</p>
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<p>Engage effectively in clinical supervision, using feedback, critical reflection and self-evaluation to monitor competence, examine the influence of personal values, beliefs and cultural assumptions, improve culturally responsive practice, recognise psychosocial risks, and apply self-care principles to support safe and sustainable practice.</p>
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<p>Collaborate effectively and respectfully in interprofessional contexts to support coordinated, culturally safe and person-centred psychological care.</p>
Assessment
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<p>Placement Contract: Students must complete and submit a Placement Contract documenting the practical arrangements of the placement, the responsibilities of the student, supervisor and placement provider, and the student’s agreed learning goals. Satisfactory completion of the Placement Contract is a hurdle requirement for passing the course.</p>
<p>Written Task</p>
<p>S/U</p>
3, 6
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<p>Logbook: Students must maintain and submit a Placement Logbook documenting their placement activities, supervision, and reflective practice. The logbook must be accurate, complete, and verified as required. Satisfactory completion of the logbook is a hurdle requirement for passing the course.</p>
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<p>S/U</p>
3, 6
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<p>Placement Hours and Clinical Documentation: Students must complete the required placement hours across three key areas: direct client work, client-related activities, and clinical supervision. Students must also complete all required documentation associated with their clinical practice, including client file documentation and clinical reports. Satisfactory completion of all required hours and documentation is a hurdle requirement for passing the course.</p>
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1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
4
<p>Mid-Placement and End Placement Competency Reviews: Students will participate in formal review processes at the midpoint and conclusion of the placement. To pass this hurdle task, students must demonstrate achievement of the relevant competencies at the level expected for a first placement.</p>
<p>Formal Review: Written and Oral Task</p>
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1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Supplementary assessment available:
No
FedTASK
FedTASK
<p>Federation University recognises that students require key transferable employability skills to prepare them for their future workplace and society. FedTASKs (<strong>T</strong>ransferable <strong>A</strong>ttributes <strong>S</strong>kills and <strong>K</strong>nowledge) provide a targeted focus on five key, transferable Attributes, Skills, and Knowledge that are embedded within curriculum, developed gradually towards successful measures and interlinked with cross-discipline and co-operative learning opportunities.</p>
FedTASK
Description of FedTASK outcome
FedTASK 1: Interpersonal
Students at this level will demonstrate an advanced ability in a range of contexts to effectively communicate, interact and work with others both individually and in groups. Students will be required to display high level skills in-person and/or online in: • Using and demonstrating a high level of verbal and non-verbal communication • Demonstrating a mastery of listening for meaning and influencing via active listening • Demonstrating and showing empathy for others • High order skills in negotiating and conflict resolution skills • Demonstrating mastery of working respectfully in cross-cultural and diverse teams
FedTASK 2: Leadership
Students at this level will demonstrate a mastery in professional skills and behaviours in leading others. • Creating and sustaining a collegial environment • Demonstrating a high level of self -awareness and the ability to self-reflect and justify decisions • Inspiring and initiating opportunities to lead others • Making informed professional decisions • Demonstrating initiative in new professional situations
FedTASK 3: Critical Thinking and Creativity
Students at this level will demonstrate high level skills in working in complexity and ambiguity using the imagination to create new ideas. Students will be required to display skills in: • Reflecting critically to generate and consider complex ideas and concepts at an abstract level • Analysing complex and abstract ideas, concepts and information • Communicate alternative perspectives to justify complex ideas • Demonstrate a mastery of challenging conventional thinking to clarify complex concepts • Forming creative solutions in problem solving to new situations for further learning
FedTASK4: Digital Literacy
Students at this level will demonstrate the ability to work competently across a wide range of tools, platforms and applications to achieve a range of tasks. Students will be required to display skills in: • Mastering, exploring, evaluating, managing, curating, organising and sharing digital information professionally • Collating, managing complex data, accessing and using digital data securely • Receiving and responding professionally to messages in a range of professional digital media • Contributing competently and professionally to digital teams and working groups • Participating at a high level in digital learning opportunities
FedTASK 5: Sustainable and Ethical Mindset
Students at this level will demonstrate a mastery of considering and assessing the consequences and impact of ideas and actions in enacting professional ethical and sustainable decisions. Students will be required to display skills in: • Demonstrate informed judgment making that considers the impact of devising complex solutions in ambiguous global economic environmental and societal contexts • Professionally committing to the promulgation of social responsibility • Demonstrate the ability to evaluate ethical, socially responsible and/or sustainable challenges and generating and articulating responses • Communicating lifelong, life-wide and life-deep learning to be open to the diverse professional others • Generating, leading and implementing required actions to foster sustainability in their professional and personal life
Key information
Institute / school:
Institute of Health and Wellbeing
Discipline:
Psychology
Study level:
Postgraduate - Coursework
Credit points:
15
EFTSL:
0.125
Field of education:
090701 - Psychology
Offering:
<p><strong>Semester 1</strong><p>Ballarat - Mt Helen (On Campus)</p><p>Flexible Delivery - Berwick (Blended)</p></p> <p><strong>Semester 2</strong><p>Ballarat - Mt Helen (On Campus)</p><p>Blended Delivery - Berwick (Blended)</p><p>Flexible Delivery - Berwick (Blended)</p></p>
Grade scheme:
Ungraded (e.g. S-Satisfactory, UN-Unsatisfactory)
Placement component:
Yes
Placement hours:
315
Fee information:
<a href="http://www.federation.edu.au/locate/unit/psycm7012">View unit fees</a>
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Internal reference: PSYCM7012 - U3.2