PYN018-3 Practicum and Research Project 3
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| Unit code: | PYN018-3 |
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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 | $3,216 |
| International unit fee | $4,488 |
Unit Outline: Semester 1 2025, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | PYN018-3 |
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| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | PYN018-1 |
| Coordinator: | Jane D'Arcy | jane.darcy@qut.edu.au |
Overview
This final unit in the suite of PYN018 capstone units reflects the idea that counsellors need to continually inform and develop their clinical practice by embodying multiple perspectives through reading literature and sharing their own clinical innovations in journal articles.
The unit enables entrepreneurship through teaching you how to document your auto-ethnographic clinical project in the form of a journal article enabling your interdisciplinary and potential inter professional contribution within and beyond the field of counselling.
Your final research paper will reflect the data you have gathered, in your journal reflections during the 160 hours of placement and 40 primary counsellor hours you have logged, preparing you to practice independently, in an organisation or consortium of professional counsellors contributing to sustainable futures.
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:
- Critically examine teamwork and interpersonal processes and apply skills to facilitate counselling sessions and contribute fully to collaborative professional practice.
- Reflect on the intersections between theory, research literature and clinical practice and then consider the implications for counselling contexts.
- Synthesise and integrate findings from research and a reflection of your own clinical practice
- Write a paper for a specified counselling journal in an appropriate style an register for the targeted audience.
- Document and reflect upon the intersections of findings and learning from the literature with your clinical practice experience using multiple perspectives.
Content
- Team-based counselling and family therapy delivery in the QUT Counselling and Family Therapy Clinic
- Industry based practice experience
- Facilitated group debriefing and peer feedback in the Counselling and Family Therapy Clinic
- Self-assessment of own work
- Academic consultations and clinical supervision
- Prepare and write an article for a nominated counselling journal
Learning Approaches
You will undertake an individual clinical project of theoretical and/or practice-based research/enquiry in a selected area of counselling. The project is supervised by a member of the teaching staff and regular consultation informs the development of the project. Your academic supervisor will offer individual support via email, telephone and face to face consultations as you synthesise theory, research and practice experience in the clinic. This synthesis will inform the completion of your Clinical Project. You will use your project plan and completed literature review from PYN018-2-as well as your reflection on casework from your weekly clinical practice in the Counselling and Family Therapy Clinic to inform the preparation and writing of a journal article which aims to communicate new ideas and innovative practice initiatives to the wider field of counselling.
Both reflective and academic papers will be written as part of the assessment of the project. You will be required to work in the Counselling and Family Therapy Clinic on a weekly basis in order to achieve project requirements. Together, PYN018-1, PYN018-2 and PYN018-3 comprise a 36 credit point unit that can be studied over two semesters. Assessment items are submitted and a grade awarded for each sub-unit.
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 ability to integrate theory, research and clinical practical knowledge through your reflective journal and the research paper that you will prepare for a nominated counselling journal.
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. 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
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Reflective Journal
You will progressively compile a research diary reflecting on your clinic and real world experience as an emerging counsellor. Your diary will demonstrate your ability to process and critically analyse the multiple perspectives gleaned from your own experience, your peers, your supervisors and literature examined throughout your clinical experience. Examination of interdisciplinary and inter professional literature as well as literature from diverse culture perspectives such as Aboriginal and Torres strait islander perspectives will be included.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Research Paper
You will write an article for a nominated counselling journal. Your article will meet the editorial requirements of your nominated journal and use an appropriate style and register for the target audience.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Placement Performance
You will compile a placement hour log that provides evidence of the competent completion of placement and client contact hours across both internship and externship experiences. Each entry in your placement hour log must be signed by your supervisor and evidence the competent completion of at least 160 placement hours and 40 hours of counselling.
Threshold Assessment:
This placement must be completed during your enrolment in the PY12 program. The logbook needs to be completed and submitted to the Clinic Director before this unit can be completed.
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 2025, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | PYN018-3 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | PYN018-1 |
Overview
This final unit in the suite of PYN018 capstone units reflects the idea that counsellors need to continually inform and develop their clinical practice by embodying multiple perspectives through reading literature and sharing their own clinical innovations in journal articles.
The unit enables entrepreneurship through teaching you how to document your auto-ethnographic clinical project in the form of a journal article enabling your interdisciplinary and potential inter professional contribution within and beyond the field of counselling.
Your final research paper will reflect the data you have gathered, in your journal reflections during the 160 hours of placement and 40 primary counsellor hours you have logged, preparing you to practice independently, in an organisation or consortium of professional counsellors contributing to sustainable futures.
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:
- Critically examine teamwork and interpersonal processes and apply skills to facilitate counselling sessions and contribute fully to collaborative professional practice.
- Reflect on the intersections between theory, research literature and clinical practice and then consider the implications for counselling contexts.
- Synthesise and integrate findings from research and a reflection of your own clinical practice
- Write a paper for a specified counselling journal in an appropriate style an register for the targeted audience.
- Document and reflect upon the intersections of findings and learning from the literature with your clinical practice experience using multiple perspectives.
Content
- Team-based counselling and family therapy delivery in the QUT Counselling and Family Therapy Clinic
- Industry based practice experience
- Facilitated group debriefing and peer feedback in the Counselling and Family Therapy Clinic
- Self-assessment of own work
- Academic consultations and clinical supervision
- Prepare and write an article for a nominated counselling journal
Learning Approaches
You will undertake an individual clinical project of theoretical and/or practice-based research/enquiry in a selected area of counselling. The project is supervised by a member of the teaching staff and regular consultation informs the development of the project. Your academic supervisor will offer individual support via email, telephone and face to face consultations as you synthesise theory, research and practice experience in the clinic. This synthesis will inform the completion of your Clinical Project. You will use your project plan and completed literature review from PYN018-2-as well as your reflection on casework from your weekly clinical practice in the Counselling and Family Therapy Clinic to inform the preparation and writing of a journal article which aims to communicate new ideas and innovative practice initiatives to the wider field of counselling.
Both reflective and academic papers will be written as part of the assessment of the project. You will be required to work in the Counselling and Family Therapy Clinic on a weekly basis in order to achieve project requirements. Together, PYN018-1, PYN018-2 and PYN018-3 comprise a 36 credit point unit that can be studied over two semesters. Assessment items are submitted and a grade awarded for each sub-unit.
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 ability to integrate theory, research and clinical practical knowledge through your reflective journal and the research paper that you will prepare for a nominated counselling journal.
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. 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
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Reflective Journal
You will progressively compile a research diary reflecting on your clinic and real world experience as an emerging counsellor. Your diary will demonstrate your ability to process and critically analyse the multiple perspectives gleaned from your own experience, your peers, your supervisors and literature examined throughout your clinical experience. Examination of interdisciplinary and inter professional literature as well as literature from diverse culture perspectives such as Aboriginal and Torres strait islander perspectives will be included.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Research Paper
You will write an article for a nominated counselling journal. Your article will meet the editorial requirements of your nominated journal and use an appropriate style and register for the target audience.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Placement Performance
You will compile a placement hour log that provides evidence of the competent completion of placement and client contact hours across both internship and externship experiences. Each entry in your placement hour log must be signed by your supervisor and evidence the competent completion of at least 160 placement hours and 40 hours of counselling.
Threshold Assessment:
This placement must be completed during your enrolment in the PY12 program. The logbook needs to be completed and submitted to the Clinic Director before this unit can be completed.
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.