PYN018-2 Practicum and Research Project 2
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| Unit code: | PYN018-2 |
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| Prerequisite(s): | PYN018-1 |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
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| Domestic tuition unit fee | $3,468 |
| International unit fee | $4,620 |
Unit Outline: Semester 1 2026, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | PYN018-2 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | PYN018-1 |
| Coordinator: | Jane D'Arcy | jane.darcy@qut.edu.au |
Overview
This unit will build on your learning in PYN014 and PYN018-1 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 and industry placement 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.
This is a designated unit which is essential to your course progression. Designated units include professional experience units, units requiring the development of particular skills, and units requiring demonstration of certain personal qualities. If you fail to achieve a satisfactory level of performance in a designated unit, you may be excluded from enrolment or will be put on academic probation. If you fail a designated unit twice within your course, you may be excluded. Supplementary assessment is not available on designated units.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Develop a professional plan for a clinical research project that draws upon the use of Generative AI and digital technologies and includes information 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;
- Industry based practice experience
- 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;
- Utilisation of Generative AI and Digital platforms to design and develop a research proposal.
- 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 pass grade in the unit and to proceed to PYN018-3. 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 your work Integrated Learning experience, you will prepare a project plan that provides 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.
Furthermore, you will be required to utilise various approved Generative AI and digital platforms (Co-pilot, Adobe express, studiosity, Research Rabbit etc.) that you have been introduced to in prior units for the conceptualisation, design and formulation of the document that you submit. You will be required to provide evidence of how you have used these platforms in developing the assessment, in addition to a statement regarding your proposed responsible and ethical use of Gen AI platforms throughout the rest of your project.
As you develop your project plan you will engage in ongoing viva voce interviews with your Academic supervisor regarding this plan. This will occur in the context of both individual and group project supervision, which will act to verify learning and authorship.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
The ethical and responsible use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools is authorised in this assessment. See the relevant assessment details in Canvas for specific guidelines.
Assessment: Literature Review
You will undertake a review of the relevant literature to deepen your understanding of multiple perspectives relating to your research question. You will then write a paper that demonstrates your ability to search, critically evaluate and synthesise the literature relevant to your research inquiry.
As you research and write your literature review you will submit drafts of your review to your Academic supervisor. These will inform ongoing viva voce interviews with your Academic supervisor regarding your literature review process. This will occur in the context of ongoing and individual and group supervision regarding your project and function to verify learning and authorship.
Additionally, you will be required to submit a literature synthesis matrix as an appendix, to further authenticate authorship.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
The ethical and responsible use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools is authorised in this assessment. See the relevant assessment details in Canvas for specific guidelines.
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.
The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.
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.
Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, 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.
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2026, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | PYN018-2 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | PYN018-1 |
| Coordinator: | Jane D'Arcy | jane.darcy@qut.edu.au |
Overview
This unit will build on your learning in PYN014 and PYN018-1 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 and industry placement 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.
This is a designated unit which is essential to your course progression. Designated units include professional experience units, units requiring the development of particular skills, and units requiring demonstration of certain personal qualities. If you fail to achieve a satisfactory level of performance in a designated unit, you may be excluded from enrolment or will be put on academic probation. If you fail a designated unit twice within your course, you may be excluded. Supplementary assessment is not available on designated units.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Develop a professional plan for a clinical research project that draws upon the use of Generative AI and digital technologies and includes information 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;
- Industry based practice experience
- 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;
- Utilisation of Generative AI and Digital platforms to design and develop a research proposal.
- 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 pass grade in the unit and to proceed to PYN018-3. 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 your work Integrated Learning experience, you will prepare a project plan that provides 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.
Furthermore, you will be required to utilise various approved Generative AI and digital platforms (Co-pilot, Adobe express, studiosity, Research Rabbit etc.) that you have been introduced to in prior units for the conceptualisation, design and formulation of the document that you submit. You will be required to provide evidence of how you have used these platforms in developing the assessment, in addition to a statement regarding your proposed responsible and ethical use of Gen AI platforms throughout the rest of your project.
As you develop your project plan you will engage in ongoing viva voce interviews with your Academic supervisor regarding this plan. This will occur in the context of both individual and group project supervision, which will act to verify learning and authorship.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
The ethical and responsible use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools is authorised in this assessment. See the relevant assessment details in Canvas for specific guidelines.
Assessment: Literature Review
You will undertake a review of the relevant literature to deepen your understanding of multiple perspectives relating to your research question. You will then write a paper that demonstrates your ability to search, critically evaluate and synthesise the literature relevant to your research inquiry.
As you research and write your literature review you will submit drafts of your review to your Academic supervisor. These will inform ongoing viva voce interviews with your Academic supervisor regarding your literature review process. This will occur in the context of ongoing and individual and group supervision regarding your project and function to verify learning and authorship.
Additionally, you will be required to submit a literature synthesis matrix as an appendix, to further authenticate authorship.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
The ethical and responsible use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools is authorised in this assessment. See the relevant assessment details in Canvas for specific guidelines.
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.
The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.
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.
Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, 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.