Course Title: Internal Practicum 2
Part A: Course Overview
Course Title: Internal Practicum 2
Credit Points: 12.00
Important Information:
Course guide info and changes due to COVID-19: As a consequence of courses being delivered remotely in Semester 2 2020, course guides may not reflect all courses assessments and activities. This is because some information in the course guide is fixed, such as learning outcomes, and some may change according to the semester of delivery.
Please refer to Canvas for details regarding your assessment and activities for each of your Semester 2 courses and talk to your course coordinator if you have any questions.
Terms
Course Code |
Campus |
Career |
School |
Learning Mode |
Teaching Period(s) |
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BESC1250 |
Bundoora Campus |
Postgraduate |
150H Health Sciences |
Face-to-Face | Sem 2 2006, Sem 2 2007, Sem 2 2008, Sem 2 2009, Sem 2 2010, Sem 1 2011, Sem 2 2011, Sem 2 2012, Sem 2 2013, Sem 2 2014, Sem 2 2015 |
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BESC1250 |
Bundoora Campus |
Postgraduate |
173H School of Health and Biomed |
Face-to-Face | Sem 2 2018, Sem 2 2019, Sem 2 2020 |
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BESC1251 |
Bundoora Campus |
Research |
150H Health Sciences |
Face-to-Face | Sem 2 2007, Sem 2 2008, Sem 2 2009, Sem 2 2010, Sem 2 2011, Sem 2 2012 |
Course Coordinator: A/Prof Sophia Xenos
Course Coordinator Phone: +61 3 9925 1081
Course Coordinator Email: sophia.xenos@rmit.edu.au
Course Coordinator Location: 202.04.050
Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities
None.
Course Description
Internal Psychology Practicum 2 is designed to build on your foundation knowledge and skills acquired in Internal Psychology Practicum 1, as well as your therapeutic work in the RMIT Psychology Clinic. During this course you will undertake
- Case Conference 2
- Individual client work in the RMIT Psychology Clinic
Work Integrated Learning
In this course you will be required to undertake placement as part of your assessment, and you must meet a number of requirements to ensure your eligibility for placement. Further details on each of these are available in Part B of the Course Guide and on MyRMIT: National Police check Working with Children Check There is no flexibility with these requirements. It is your responsibility to ensure that THESE REQUIREMENTS ARE COMPLETED. Any student who has not provided this information will not be able to attend placement and will receive a fail grade for the placement course. Students need to be able to meet the inherent requirements of the program. At any time prior to or during your placement, if there are concerns raised related to your fitness to practise the WIL/clinical coordinator can request that you gain full medical clearance to continue your placement.
Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development
This course contributes to the following Program Learning Outcomes for MC002 Master of Clinical Psychology:
- PLO 2: Develop a comprehensive and critical understanding of the legislative frameworks and ethical codes and guidelines that guide professional psychological practice at a personal and professional level.
- PLO 3: Design, analyse, synthesise and communicate information from a wide variety of psychological assessments and techniques appropriate to the developmental stage, cognitive level and cultural background of the client, and appropriate to the purpose of the assessment.
- PLO 4: Demonstrate the ability to design, apply and evaluate appropriate evidence-based empirically-validated interventions individualised to the client’s diagnosis, case formulation, and personal or organisational characteristics.
- PLO 5: Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of empirical investigation or inquiry as a scientist-practitioner, predicated on the principles of clinical psychological practice, with a variety of psychological phenomena or problems.
- PLO 6: Demonstrate the ability to undertake effective communication across a range of individual and organisational contexts to engage clients and to convey, appraise and interpret information relevant to professional practice and the client population.
On successful completion of this course students should be able to:
- Demonstrate continued adherence to the RMIT University Psychology Clinic procedures.
- Conduct a clinical assessment and devise, implement and evaluate an appropriate method of intervention.
- Identify major professional, ethical and best-practice issues pertaining to each of your clients.
- Successfully communicate the findings your assessment to a clinical supervisor and to the client.
- Develop self-awareness of the level and limits of your clinical competency and learning needs.
Overview of Learning Activities
Learning activities include a mixture of lectures/ seminars, tutorials and skill development activities. Lectures will build on knowledge gained in in the program and will provide a solid theoretical and practice driven basis to help to achieve professional practice proficiency.
Teacher Guided Hours: 48
Learner Directed Hours: 72
Overview of Learning Resources
The learning resources associated with this course include targeted readings taken from a range of both primary and secondary sources. Skill development activities will be provided in a variety of ways, including simulated learning activities. RMIT will provide you with resources and tools for learning in this course through our online systems.
Overview of Assessment
All hurdle requirements for this course are indicated clearly in the assessment regime that follows, against the relevant assessment task(s) and all have been approved by the College Deputy Pro Vice-Chancellor (Learning & Teaching).
Assessment Tasks
Assessment Task 1: Case Presentation
Weighting 25%
This assessment task supports CLOs 1 2, 3, 4 & 5
Assessment Task 2: Log of Clinic Hours (Hurdle)
Weighting 25%
This assessment task supports CLOs 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5
Assessment Task 3: Competency Assessment of DVD Client Work (Hurdle)
Weighting 50%
This assessment task supports CLOs 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5