PYN008-2 Project
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| Unit code: | PYN008-2 |
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| Prerequisite(s): | PYN008-1 |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
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| Domestic tuition unit fee | $2,976 |
| International unit fee | $4,152 |
Unit Outline: Semester 1 2024, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | PYN008-2 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | PYN008-1 |
| Coordinator: | Jane D'Arcy | jane.darcy@qut.edu.au |
Overview
This unit will build on your learning in PYN014 and PYN008-1 by enabling you to undertake an individual auto-ethnographic clinical project of theoretical and/or practice-based research/enquiry in your own selected area of counselling.
You will continue the application of a multiple perspective approach to counselling and learning industry relevant-digital practices through the Counselling and Family Therapy Clinic's embedded learning with your clinical supervisor. While doing so you continue to log your client contact hours while collecting research data through the maintenance of a research diary.
You will plan your research and explore literature relating to your area of clinic practice enquiry in consultation with your academic supervisor. Your academic supervisor will assist you to use independent scholarship and reflection of learning to inform your counselling practice in preparation for your employability and entrepreneurship upon graduation.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Develop a professional research plan for a clinical project that draws upon personal data from your reflective journal and other relevant data.
- Examine the scope and focus of an area in counselling practice to a specific proposal and/or enquiry to explore in the literature;
- Search and critically evaluate relevant literature drawing upon digital capabilities and relevant technologies;
- Critique the practice implications that arise from your year long Clinical Project that demonstrate your own counselling framework.
Content
- Team-based counselling and family therapy delivery;
- Facilitated group debriefing and peer feedback;
- Academic consultations and clinical supervision;
- Independent scholarship including archival data retrieval and synthesis of relevant literature in a literature review;
- Documentation and reflection of learning in a reflective journal;
- Compilation of a Client Contact Log.
Learning Approaches
This unit provides ongoing clinical practice, independent scholarship and individual consultation with your academic supervisor who will assist you to refine the scope and focus of your clinical project. Ongoing discussion and negotiation with your supervisor will enable you to frame a question to focus your search of the literature. You will develop your professional plan to inform your critical evaluation of the relevant literature.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Feedback in this unit is provided to you in the following ways:
- Feedback within clinic supervision processes;
- Feedback from peers in clinic debriefing sessions;
- Criteria sheets and comments on summative assessment work;
- Canvas postings.
Assessment
Overview
In this unit you will be assessed on your capacity for independent scholarship in developing a professional plan for your clinical project and your capacity to undertake a critical literature review that you will integrate into a final project research paper.
Assessment in this unit will be submitted electronically. You will be required to submit your assessment via Turnitin content-matching software. Assessment will be marked online and your feedback will be supplied via Canvas.
You must complete all items of assessment satisfactorily to achieve a passing grade in the unit. You must complete all items of assessment satisfactorily to achieve a passing grade in the unit and to proceed to PYN008-3. A second attempt at an assessment due to a Fail will need to be negotiated with the unit coordinator.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale and S (Satisfactory) / U (Unsatisfactory)
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Professional Plan
While engaging in real world experiences that emulate what it’s like to be a counsellor in the field, you will prepare documentation that outlines an overview of your Clinical Project proposal. This will include a conceptual plan and ideas for the completion of your research paper (Journal Article). You will draw upon multiple perspectives that are interdisciplinary and inter-professional.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Literature Review
You will undertake a review of the relevant literature to deepen your understanding of multiple perspectives relating to the scope of your clinical project enquiry. You will then write a paper that demonstrates your ability to search, critically evaluate and synthesise the literature to your real world counselling experience in the clinic.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Requirements to Study
Blue Card
A blue card is required to complete this unit. A blue card confirms that you have passed a screening of your criminal history (the Working with Children Check) and have been approved to work with children and young people. For more information on the blue card and how to apply please visit the QUT website.
Resources
Resource Materials
Other
Relevant journal articles and resource material may be suggested or made available by supervisors and the Unit Coordinator.
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no out-of-the-ordinary risks associated with this unit. You are referred to the university's health and safety website www.hrd.qut.edu.au/healthsafety/index.jsp for further information.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.PY12 Master of Counselling
- Critically evaluate and apply theoretical and philosophical underpinnings of counselling research and practice, drawing upon digital capabilities and the qualities of ethical conduct, social inclusivity, reflexivity and reflection in sustainable ways.
Relates to: Professional Plan, Literature Review - Scrutinise counselling research literature, reflected in autoethnographic professional practice experience, to develop new knowledge integral to the standards of professional counselling practice and practice innovation.
Relates to: Professional Plan, Literature Review - Promote and practice effective written, oral and digital communication processes including advanced listening and dialogue skills, congruent with a collaborative counselling approach, in a range of contexts.
Relates to: Professional Plan, Literature Review
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2024, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | PYN008-2 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | PYN008-1 |
| Coordinator: | Jane D'Arcy | jane.darcy@qut.edu.au |
Overview
This unit will build on your learning in PYN014 and PYN008-1 by enabling you to undertake an individual auto-ethnographic clinical project of theoretical and/or practice-based research/enquiry in your own selected area of counselling.
You will continue the application of a multiple perspective approach to counselling and learning industry relevant-digital practices through the Counselling and Family Therapy Clinic's embedded learning with your clinical supervisor. While doing so you continue to log your client contact hours while collecting research data through the maintenance of a research diary.
You will plan your research and explore literature relating to your area of clinic practice enquiry in consultation with your academic supervisor. Your academic supervisor will assist you to use independent scholarship and reflection of learning to inform your counselling practice in preparation for your employability and entrepreneurship upon graduation.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Develop a professional research plan for a clinical project that draws upon personal data from your reflective journal and other relevant data.
- Examine the scope and focus of an area in counselling practice to a specific proposal and/or enquiry to explore in the literature;
- Search and critically evaluate relevant literature drawing upon digital capabilities and relevant technologies;
- Critique the practice implications that arise from your year long Clinical Project that demonstrate your own counselling framework.
Content
- Team-based counselling and family therapy delivery;
- Facilitated group debriefing and peer feedback;
- Academic consultations and clinical supervision;
- Independent scholarship including archival data retrieval and synthesis of relevant literature in a literature review;
- Documentation and reflection of learning in a reflective journal;
- Compilation of a Client Contact Log.
Learning Approaches
This unit provides ongoing clinical practice, independent scholarship and individual consultation with your academic supervisor who will assist you to refine the scope and focus of your clinical project. Ongoing discussion and negotiation with your supervisor will enable you to frame a question to focus your search of the literature. You will develop your professional plan to inform your critical evaluation of the relevant literature.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Feedback in this unit is provided to you in the following ways:
- Feedback within clinic supervision processes;
- Feedback from peers in clinic debriefing sessions;
- Criteria sheets and comments on summative assessment work;
- Canvas postings.
Assessment
Overview
In this unit you will be assessed on your capacity for independent scholarship in developing a professional plan for your clinical project and your capacity to undertake a critical literature review that you will integrate into a final project research paper.
Assessment in this unit will be submitted electronically. You will be required to submit your assessment via Turnitin content-matching software. Assessment will be marked online and your feedback will be supplied via Canvas.
You must complete all items of assessment satisfactorily to achieve a passing grade in the unit. You must complete all items of assessment satisfactorily to achieve a passing grade in the unit and to proceed to PYN008-3. A second attempt at an assessment due to a Fail will need to be negotiated with the unit coordinator.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale and S (Satisfactory) / U (Unsatisfactory)
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Professional Plan
While engaging in real world experiences that emulate what it’s like to be a counsellor in the field, you will prepare documentation that outlines an overview of your Clinical Project proposal. This will include a conceptual plan and ideas for the completion of your research paper (Journal Article). You will draw upon multiple perspectives that are interdisciplinary and inter-professional.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Literature Review
You will undertake a review of the relevant literature to deepen your understanding of multiple perspectives relating to the scope of your clinical project enquiry. You will then write a paper that demonstrates your ability to search, critically evaluate and synthesise the literature to your real world counselling experience in the clinic.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Requirements to Study
Blue Card
A blue card is required to complete this unit. A blue card confirms that you have passed a screening of your criminal history (the Working with Children Check) and have been approved to work with children and young people. For more information on the blue card and how to apply please visit the QUT website.
Resources
Resource Materials
Other
Relevant journal articles and resource material may be suggested or made available by supervisors and the Unit Coordinator.
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no out-of-the-ordinary risks associated with this unit. You are referred to the university's health and safety website www.hrd.qut.edu.au/healthsafety/index.jsp for further information.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.PY12 Master of Counselling
- Critically evaluate and apply theoretical and philosophical underpinnings of counselling research and practice, drawing upon digital capabilities and the qualities of ethical conduct, social inclusivity, reflexivity and reflection in sustainable ways.
Relates to: Professional Plan, Literature Review - Scrutinise counselling research literature, reflected in autoethnographic professional practice experience, to develop new knowledge integral to the standards of professional counselling practice and practice innovation.
Relates to: Professional Plan, Literature Review - Promote and practice effective written, oral and digital communication processes including advanced listening and dialogue skills, congruent with a collaborative counselling approach, in a range of contexts.
Relates to: Professional Plan, Literature Review