Course Title: Internal Practicum 4

Part A: Course Overview

Course Title: Internal Practicum 4

Credit Points: 12.00

Terms

Course Code	Campus	Career	School	Learning Mode	Teaching Period(s)
BESC1270	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 1 2014, Sem 2 2014
BESC1270	Bundoora Campus	Postgraduate	173H School of Health and Biomed	Face-to-Face	Sem 2 2018, Sem 2 2019, Sem 2 2020, Sem 2 2022, Sem 2 2023
BESC1271	Bundoora Campus	Research	150H Health Sciences	Face-to-Face	Sem 2 2007, Sem 2 2008, Sem 2 2009, Sem 2 2011, Sem 2 2012

Course Coordinator: Dr Trish Melzer

Course Coordinator Phone: +61 3 9925

Course Coordinator Email: trish.melzer2@rmit.edu.au

Course Coordinator Location: Bundoora West

Course Coordinator Availability: by email

Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

None

Course Description

Internal Psychology Practicum 4 is a Work Integrated learning course designed to extend and consolidate the skills and knowledge developed throughout the Master of Clinical Psychology program. During this course you will undertake the following: 

• Case Conference 4 - a series of seminars/workshops designed to provide advanced clinical training
• Case presentations - designed to consolidate your clinical presentation skills

 

Work Integrated Learning:

Students enrolled in this course will be required to be WIL passport ready to undertake the course. A number of requirements must be met by students to ensure eligibility for course. Further details on each of these are available in Part B of the Course Guide and on MyRMIT and include:

• National Police Check
• Working with Children Check

There is no flexibility with these requirements. It is your responsibility to ensure these requirements are completed. Any student who has not provided this information in full by the specified date will not be able to participate in the course and will receive a fail grade. A fail grade for the course will result in a delay in your program progression. 

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 practice 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 you should be able to: 

1. Demonstrate a continued adherence to the RMIT University Psychology Clinic procedures.
2. Competently deliver a structured, and formal, presentation about more complex client difficulties to a professional audience for both educational and help-seeking purposes.
3. Demonstrate the capability to conduct clinical assessments and devise, implement, and evaluate an appropriate method of intervention for complex clinical presentations.  
4. Deliver at short notice a brief presentation of the main aspects of a clinic case for the purpose of informing others and seeking ideas and help with difficult cases.
5. Formulate hypotheses, develop appropriate intervention techniques, and develop evaluation procedures for measuring process and outcomes, for a given case.
6. Identify major professional, ethical and best practice issues pertaining to each of your clients.
7. Successfully communicate the findings of your assessment to a clinical supervisor and to the client.
8. Further develop self-awareness of the level and limits of your clinical competency and learning needs.

 

Overview of Learning Activities

 

You will be actively engaged in a range of learning activities such as lectorials, tutorials, practicals, laboratories, seminars, project work, class discussion, individual and group activities. Delivery may be face to face, online or a mix of both. 

You are encouraged to be proactive and self-directed in your learning, asking questions of your lecturer and/or peers and seeking out information as required, especially from the numerous sources available through the RMIT library, and through links and material specific to this course that is available through myRMIT Studies Course. 

Overview of Learning Resources

 

RMIT will provide you with resources and tools for learning in this course through myRMIT Studies Course. 

There are services available to support your learning through the University Library. The Library provides guides on academic referencing and subject specialist help as well as a range of study support services. For further information, please visit the Library page on the RMIT University website and the myRMIT student portal.

Overview of Assessment

All assessments are required to be completed for a pass mark in this course. This WIL course awards a pass or fail mark.

This course contains hurdle requirements. 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 Vice-Chancellor (Learning & Teaching).

Assessment Tasks

Assessment Task 1: Case Presentation (Hurdle)
Satisfactory Pass (PX) / Unsatisfactory Fail (NN)
This assessment task supports CLOs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8

Assessment Task 2: Log of Clinic Hours (Hurdle)
Satisfactory Pass (PX) / Unsatisfactory Fail (NN)
This assessment task supports CLOs 1, 3, 5, 6, 7 & 8

If you have a long-term medical condition and/or disability it may be possible to negotiate to vary aspects of the learning or assessment methods. You can contact the program coordinator or Equitable Learning Services if you would like to find out more.