Unit PSYCM7013 - Professional Practice: Stage 3 | Federation University Handbook

Unit description

This unit provides students with an opportunity to consolidate and extend their clinical psychology competencies through supervised practice in an approved placement setting. Students undertake culturally responsive assessment, diagnosis and formulation of increasingly complex psychological presentations and select, implement and evaluate evidence-based interventions appropriate to clients’ developmental, sociocultural and service contexts.Students use supervision, reflective practice and routine outcome monitoring to refine clinical decision-making and adapt psychological care. They further develop professional communication, interprofessional collaboration and consultation skills while applying ethical, legal and professional standards, including culturally safe practice and the ethical and competent use of digital technologies.

Unit content

Institute / school:

Institute of Health and Wellbeing

Discipline:

Psychology

Study level:

Postgraduate - Coursework

Credit points:

EFTSL:

0.125

Field of education:

Offering:

Grade scheme:

Ungraded (e.g. S-Satisfactory, UN-Unsatisfactory)

Placement component:

Yes

Placement hours:

315

Fee information:

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Corequisite

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Learning outcomes

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5	<p>Demonstrate increasing professional autonomy and accountability by applying ethical, legal and professional standards to complex or ambiguous clinical situations, using digital technologies competently and ethically, and actively using supervision, critical reflection and self-evaluation to recognise limits of competence, address cultural assumptions, manage psychosocial risks and sustain safe practice.</p>
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3	<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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Supplementary assessment available:

FedTASK

Federation University recognises that students require key transferable employability skills to prepare them for their future workplace and society. FedTASKs (Transferable Attributes Skills and Knowledge) 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.

FedTASK	Description of FedTASK outcome
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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

Institute / school:

Institute of Health and Wellbeing

Discipline:

Psychology

Study level:

Postgraduate - Coursework

Credit points:

EFTSL:

0.125

Field of education:

Offering:

Grade scheme:

Ungraded (e.g. S-Satisfactory, UN-Unsatisfactory)

Placement component:

Yes

Placement hours:

315

Fee information:

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