You are expected to complete approximately 300 hours in this placement towards your total of 1200 hours of placement (Work Integrated Learning) over the course of your degree. Contact hours for on-campus students: • 270 hours of clinical placement experience including a minimum of approximately 120 direct client activity hours and 150 indirect hours including professional development activities, report writing, and administrative work • Permission may be sought to transfer some days and hours between the three placements • Minimum of 30 hours of supervision • Group supervision sessions no more than 50% of total supervision There will be a one hour weekly applied session (Case Analysis) in which you are also expected to participate. This is included in the 300 hours of clinical placement experience. You are required to attend all scheduled applied sessions unless documentary evidence (such as a medical certificate or statutory declaration) is provided. Minimum attendance to pass the unit is 80%.
Knowledge of the discipline: Differentiate and discuss the multifaceted aspects of being a provisional psychologist within a range of clinical placement settings.
Communication and interpersonal relationships: Develop effective professional relationships and communication (oral and written) with a wide range of colleagues, stakeholders, and clients with complex mental health presentations and disorders.
Reflective practice: Use reflexive processes to enable adaptive practice, learning and behaviour change in clinical practice.
Legal, ethical and professional matters: Manage ethical issues and adhere to professional practice standards (for example including confidentiality, risk and effective documentation) in increasingly complex circumstances.
Research and evaluation: Apply the scientist-practitioner approach in the development, application and evaluation of evidence-informed treatment plans/interventions for people with complex mental health presentations and disorders.
Psychological assessment and measurement: Use thorough assessment methodology and hypothesis testing approach to develop holistic clinical formulations for a wide range of complex mental health presentations (within a Diagnostic Framework).
Intervention strategies: Apply a breadth of evidence-informed, culturally responsive intervention strategies to diverse individuals and/or groups with complex mental health presentations.
