Course Title: Psychopathology
Part A: Course Overview
Course Title: Psychopathology
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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BESC1423 |
Bundoora Campus |
Undergraduate |
150H Health Sciences |
Face-to-Face | Sem 2 2007, Sem 2 2008, Sem 2 2009, Sem 2 2010, Sem 2 2011, Sem 2 2012, Sem 2 2013, Sem 2 2014, Sem 2 2015 |
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BESC1423 |
Bundoora Campus |
Undergraduate |
173H School of Health and Biomed |
Face-to-Face | Sem 2 2017, Sem 2 2018, Sem 2 2019, Sem 2 2020 |
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BESC1424 |
Bundoora Campus |
Postgraduate |
150H Health Sciences |
Face-to-Face | Sem 2 2007, Sem 2 2008, Sem 2 2009, Sem 2 2010, Sem 2 2011, Sem 2 2012, Sem 2 2013, Sem 2 2014 |
Course Coordinator: Dr Wendell Cockshaw
Course Coordinator Phone: +61 3 9925 7067
Course Coordinator Email: wendell.cockshaw@rmit.edu.au
Course Coordinator Location: 201.03.007
Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities
None.
Course Description
The course is designed to focus on a number of psychological problems in the developmental context. Theoretical approaches to the explanation and management of selected psychological problems will be described and evidence for the effectiveness of the most prominent intervention approaches for selected psychological problems will be evaluated.
Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development
This course contributes to the development of the Program Learning Outcomes:
- PLO 1: Understand appropriate and relevant fundamental and applied evidence based knowledge and undertake lifelong learning to improve personal and professional practice
- PLO 2: Demonstrate a capacity to employ a variety of approaches and procedures to research to permit judgements and decisions to be supported by appropriate evidence that places practice within a global and local context.
- PLO 3: Applies knowledge to diagnose and solve problems in a wide range of diverse situations, with an ability to work independently or with others and incorporate the analysis of evidence based scientific literature to solve psychological problems.
- PLO 4: Engage in dialogue with a diverse range of people and communicate in a broad range of forms (written, electronic, graphic, oral) to meet the circumstances of the situation and the capabilities of the audience.
- PLO 5: Maintains tolerance and respect for individuals and groups from diverse backgrounds, holding diverse values, adhering to professional expectations and demonstrating ethical behaviour.
On successful completion of this course you should be able to:
- Demonstrate an organised and coherent knowledge of selected psychological problems informed by reading and discussion.
- Review signs and symptoms of selected psychological problems.
- Critically analyse the presumed causes, assessment, implications and management of selected psychological problems.
- Consider the impact of these psychological problems on the individual and the wider social context.
- Demonstrate an ability to critically analyse research literature in areas of psychology relevant to these topics
- Provide examples of the applied implications of existing research on the topics covered to domains where psychologists work.
Overview of Learning Activities
Your learning activities associated with this course will be designed to meet the requirements of the course content being discussed. This may include lectures, seminars, videos, debates, and discussion to enable in-depth exploration of the topics offered. You will be expected to do any prescribed preparatory reading or other activities, to attend class, and to actively participate in discussion or debate or other activities as directed. You will also be required to reflect on the learning achieved for each topic and demonstrate an ability to synthesise key issues. An ability to think critically about the reporting of psychological research, to develop their literacy and communication skills, and to contribute to group discussion is an integral component of this course.
Teacher Guided Hours: 24
Learner Directed Hours: 96
Overview of Learning Resources
The learning resources associated with this course will include targeted readings taken from multi-media, text book, reference and online material and a range of secondary sources. Material chosen may be digitally available to you. RMIT will provide you with resources and tools for learning in this course through our online systems.
Overview of Assessment
This course has no hurdle requirements.
The assessment associated with this course will comprise formative and summative assessment.
Assessment Tasks
Early Assessment Task: Written Assignment
Weighting 20%
This assessment task supports CLOs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6
Assessment Task 2: Oral Presentation
Weighting 40%
This assessment task supports CLOs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6
Assessment Task 3: Written Assignment
Weighting 40%
This assessment task supports CLOs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6
These assessments may include use of online technology and are designed to require students to demonstrate a critical analysis of the core principles presented in the course.