PYN633 Supervised Educational and Developmental Externship: Practicum 3
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| Unit code: | PYN633 |
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| Prerequisite(s): | PYN036 or PYN632 |
| Equivalent(s): | EDN633 |
| Other requisite(s): | Course Coordinator must approve enrolment on the successful completion of the pre-requisite unit's requirements. |
| Assumed Knowledge: | Registration (Probationary or Full) with the Psychologists Board of Queensland is required for enrolment in this unit. |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
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| CSP student contribution | The Commonwealth supported place student contribution amount for this unit depends upon the course of study. Find out more |
| Domestic tuition unit fee | $2,976 |
| International unit fee | $4,152 |
Unit Outline: Semester 1 2024, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | PYN633 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | PYN036 or PYN632 |
| Other Requisite: | Course Coordinator must approve enrolment on the successful completion of the pre-requisite unit's requirements. |
| Equivalent: | EDN633 |
| Assumed Knowledge: | Current registration with the PsyBA. |
| Coordinator: | Philippa Neary | philippa.neary@qut.edu.au |
Overview
Practicum 3 provides you with the opportunity to acquire knowledge about the role of Educational and Developmental psychologists in an educational (usually school) or non-educational setting and to develop skills to practice in these settings. This unit builds on students' psychological practice experiences acquired during their year-long internship within the Caroline Chisholm Centre and QUT Psychology and Counselling Clinic. The aim of Practicum 3 is to provide you with supervised experience in applying your diagnostic, assessment and intervention skills within a selected externship agency. Practicum 3 will also further develop your written and oral communication skills, and provide you with practice skills to communicate results of assessment and intervention for stakeholders in novel practice settings.
Enrolment in this unit requires liaison with Course Coordinator and Unit Coordinator based on the requirement that relevant prerequisites have been achieved.
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:
- Identify problems and generate hypotheses appropriate to complex psychological practice in an externship setting;
- Competently evaluate, select, administer and interpret a range of psychological assessment approaches appropriate to the externship;
- Identify and competently implement appropriate intervention strategies and monitor their effectiveness;
- Competently produce psychological reports and communicate the results of assessments and details of interventions in oral and written formats to a range of stakeholders, as well as display high level professional skills appropriate to the externship setting;
- Articulate a developed practice framework, including the ability to demonstrate a high level of competence in ethical, legal and professional matters including knowledge of and adherence to the APS Code of Ethics and procedures within the externship setting.
Content
Supervised Educational and Developmental Externship Practicum 3 consists of a minimum number of hours (excluding supervision time) of psychological practice based outside the Caroline Chisholm Centre and supervised by one or more external supervisors. The hours must include a minimum number of hours of direct client contact as required to meet the placement requirements as set by AHPRA and APAC. Taking into account the requirements of the Board, the minimum requirement of supervision hours is 1 hour for every 7.5 hours of placement experience. You must allocate sufficient time for undertaking this supervised practicum (at least two days per week though on occasion up to 3 days).
Specifics of each Practicum's requirements are detailed in the Placement Handbook provided on the Unit Canvas site. Externships represent a diverse range of experiences and can take place in a broad range of settings, ranging from infant mental health and parenting-focused placements, through to placements involving school-aged children and young people and their personal and professional support networks, through to placements focused on adult clients, including older persons. Depending on the particular placement, you may have the experience of working as part of, or liaising with, a multidisciplinary team; and working with diverse populations.
Learning Approaches
While content and process will be adapted to meet the needs of students, teaching and learning approaches could include presentations by the course or unit coordinator, guests and students, group discussions and feedback, observations, seminars, research, information sessions and demonstrations. However, the primary learning experience is intended to be through direct supervision by a board approved supervisor within the externship setting.
PY19 course design is intentionally blended to purposefully integrate active face-to-face learning experiences with blended/online learning experiences across the course consistent with the course learning outcomes, cohort needs and discipline professional practices. Canvas is used within this unit to inform and enhance your learning. All unit material required for learning and completing assessment is included online through Canvas. Additional readings and resources such as web links and video material are also posted where appropriate to expand your ability to advance your knowledge in the unit's subject matter.
A key aim of the unit and course is to support (provisional) psychologists in developing their knowledge, skills and competencies so they are able to provide the best quality care for their clients. Underlying this aim, and in line with registration guidelines, is a focus on ensuring the public's safety.
Access to a range of supports for learning are outlined within the Placement Handbook and specific workshops will be offered on occasion to enhance skills required for practicum experiences.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Formative assessment is ongoing and feedback is provided through regular contact with your placement supervisors and the externship coordinator at QUT. The placement supervisor also provides feedback on the components of the folio prior to formal submission (formative assessment), to allow students the opportunity to ensure they meet folio requirements.
Feedback will be provided both during the placement and on submission of the folio. You will be provided opportunities for self and peer feedback through reflective components of the folio and facilitated group discussions of practicum experiences.
Assessment
Overview
Assessment will consist of formative and summative tasks including a folio of practicum work.
The portfolio must be submitted and determined to be 'Satisfactory' in order to successfully pass this unit. You must pass this unit to be able to enrol in PYN634.
Unit Grading Scheme
S (Satisfactory) / U (Unsatisfactory)
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Portfolio
The specific contents of the portfolio will be dependent on your placement agreement but will include the following:
- A copy of your Practicum Placement Agreement;
- One case study;
- Examples of a psychological report, intervention plans, counselling/intervention summaries;
- A record of supervision sessions;
- A record of placement activities and hours;
- A mid and end of placement review;
- Placement evaluation report and supervisor evaluation; and
- 8 signed Reflective Journal entries.
All work submitted must be de-identified and the placement supervisor should sign off all work on the folio checklist.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Threshold Assessment:
This task requires you to provide evidence of your capacity to undertake the core competencies required of a registered psychologist and as such is both authentic and threshold. A satisfactory achievement in this task is required to pass the unit, which requires all items of the portfolio to be satisfactory. The unit coordinator may contact you if components of the portfolio are missing or do not meet the required professional standards, and request a resubmission of the identified components. No resubmission/reevaluation is available for the supervisor evaluation.
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
Requirements
Registration (Provisional or General) with the Psychology Board of Australia is required for enrolment in this unit.
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
Risk Assessment Statement
You should be aware that some content in this unit may be confronting to certain audiences. Please exercise your own discretion when participating in classroom activities or discussions. The QUT Student Counselling service is also available and free of charge to all QUT students.
When conducting case studies or assessments, you must obtain informed consent from your participants and, in the case of children, from their parents as well. It is a requirement that identifying details, such as names, locations, and dates of birth, are concealed in your folio or any assignments submitted for course work. You should consult with your supervisor or the unit or course coordinator if ethical issues arise.
Students must make themselves aware of and abide by the occupational health and safety requirements of the workplace, and are expected to undergo any induction or other training provided for employees or visitors to the workplace, as appropriate. You will also be responsible for obtaining any relevant vaccinations, if applicable to your site.
Some placements will require a separate Blue Card or other certification for practice. If you do not apply for a Blue Card immediately upon enrolment in the course and allow sufficient time for the police check and issuing of the Card, you will be unable to participate in these activities. It may take up to 12 weeks for Blue Card Services to issue the Card.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.PY19 Master of Psychology (Educational and Developmental)
- Formulate approaches for engaging in critical thinking. decision making and reflective practice, drawing on cognitive, technical and creative skills, to identify and implement contemporary evidence-based intervention and assessment strategies in varied contexts that reflect culturally safe and responsive practice.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, ULO4, ULO5, Portfolio - Access, evaluate, and utilise relevant psychological information that informs and assists in intra- and inter-professional collaboration with a range of audiences and contexts that demonstrates creativity and initiative as an educational and developmental psychologist.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO4, ULO5, Portfolio - Promote and practise effective written, oral and digital communication to analyse and convey complex information and build productive professional relationships across diverse stakeholders.
Relates to: ULO4, Portfolio
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2024, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | PYN633 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | PYN036 or PYN632 |
| Other Requisite: | Course Coordinator must approve enrolment on the successful completion of the pre-requisite unit's requirements. |
| Equivalent: | EDN633 |
| Assumed Knowledge: | Current registration with the PsyBA. |
| Coordinator: | Philippa Neary | philippa.neary@qut.edu.au |
Overview
Practicum 3 provides you with the opportunity to acquire knowledge about the role of Educational and Developmental psychologists in an educational (usually school) or non-educational setting and to develop skills to practice in these settings. This unit builds on students' psychological practice experiences acquired during their year-long internship within the Caroline Chisholm Centre and QUT Psychology and Counselling Clinic. The aim of Practicum 3 is to provide you with supervised experience in applying your diagnostic, assessment and intervention skills within a selected externship agency. Practicum 3 will also further develop your written and oral communication skills, and provide you with practice skills to communicate results of assessment and intervention for stakeholders in novel practice settings.
Enrolment in this unit requires liaison with Course Coordinator and Unit Coordinator based on the requirement that relevant prerequisites have been achieved.
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:
- Identify problems and generate hypotheses appropriate to complex psychological practice in an externship setting;
- Competently evaluate, select, administer and interpret a range of psychological assessment approaches appropriate to the externship;
- Identify and competently implement appropriate intervention strategies and monitor their effectiveness;
- Competently produce psychological reports and communicate the results of assessments and details of interventions in oral and written formats to a range of stakeholders, as well as display high level professional skills appropriate to the externship setting;
- Articulate a developed practice framework, including the ability to demonstrate a high level of competence in ethical, legal and professional matters including knowledge of and adherence to the APS Code of Ethics and procedures within the externship setting.
Content
Supervised Educational and Developmental Externship Practicum 3 consists of a minimum number of hours (excluding supervision time) of psychological practice based outside the Caroline Chisholm Centre and supervised by one or more external supervisors. The hours must include a minimum number of hours of direct client contact as required to meet the placement requirements as set by AHPRA and APAC. Taking into account the requirements of the Board, the minimum requirement of supervision hours is 1 hour for every 7.5 hours of placement experience. You must allocate sufficient time for undertaking this supervised practicum (at least two days per week though on occasion up to 3 days).
Specifics of each Practicum's requirements are detailed in the Placement Handbook provided on the Unit Canvas site. Externships represent a diverse range of experiences and can take place in a broad range of settings, ranging from infant mental health and parenting-focused placements, through to placements involving school-aged children and young people and their personal and professional support networks, through to placements focused on adult clients, including older persons. Depending on the particular placement, you may have the experience of working as part of, or liaising with, a multidisciplinary team; and working with diverse populations.
Learning Approaches
While content and process will be adapted to meet the needs of students, teaching and learning approaches could include presentations by the course or unit coordinator, guests and students, group discussions and feedback, observations, seminars, research, information sessions and demonstrations. However, the primary learning experience is intended to be through direct supervision by a board approved supervisor within the externship setting.
PY19 course design is intentionally blended to purposefully integrate active face-to-face learning experiences with blended/online learning experiences across the course consistent with the course learning outcomes, cohort needs and discipline professional practices. Canvas is used within this unit to inform and enhance your learning. All unit material required for learning and completing assessment is included online through Canvas. Additional readings and resources such as web links and video material are also posted where appropriate to expand your ability to advance your knowledge in the unit's subject matter.
A key aim of the unit and course is to support (provisional) psychologists in developing their knowledge, skills and competencies so they are able to provide the best quality care for their clients. Underlying this aim, and in line with registration guidelines, is a focus on ensuring the public's safety.
Access to a range of supports for learning are outlined within the Placement Handbook and specific workshops will be offered on occasion to enhance skills required for practicum experiences.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Formative assessment is ongoing and feedback is provided through regular contact with your placement supervisors and the externship coordinator at QUT. The placement supervisor also provides feedback on the components of the folio prior to formal submission (formative assessment), to allow students the opportunity to ensure they meet folio requirements.
Feedback will be provided both during the placement and on submission of the folio. You will be provided opportunities for self and peer feedback through reflective components of the folio and facilitated group discussions of practicum experiences.
Assessment
Overview
Assessment will consist of formative and summative tasks including a folio of practicum work.
The portfolio must be submitted and determined to be 'Satisfactory' in order to successfully pass this unit. You must pass this unit to be able to enrol in PYN634.
Unit Grading Scheme
S (Satisfactory) / U (Unsatisfactory)
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Portfolio
The specific contents of the portfolio will be dependent on your placement agreement but will include the following:
- A copy of your Practicum Placement Agreement;
- One case study;
- Examples of a psychological report, intervention plans, counselling/intervention summaries;
- A record of supervision sessions;
- A record of placement activities and hours;
- A mid and end of placement review;
- Placement evaluation report and supervisor evaluation; and
- 8 signed Reflective Journal entries.
All work submitted must be de-identified and the placement supervisor should sign off all work on the folio checklist.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Threshold Assessment:
This task requires you to provide evidence of your capacity to undertake the core competencies required of a registered psychologist and as such is both authentic and threshold. A satisfactory achievement in this task is required to pass the unit, which requires all items of the portfolio to be satisfactory. The unit coordinator may contact you if components of the portfolio are missing or do not meet the required professional standards, and request a resubmission of the identified components. No resubmission/reevaluation is available for the supervisor evaluation.
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
Requirements
Registration (Provisional or General) with the Psychology Board of Australia is required for enrolment in this unit.
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
Risk Assessment Statement
You should be aware that some content in this unit may be confronting to certain audiences. Please exercise your own discretion when participating in classroom activities or discussions. The QUT Student Counselling service is also available and free of charge to all QUT students.
When conducting case studies or assessments, you must obtain informed consent from your participants and, in the case of children, from their parents as well. It is a requirement that identifying details, such as names, locations, and dates of birth, are concealed in your folio or any assignments submitted for course work. You should consult with your supervisor or the unit or course coordinator if ethical issues arise.
Students must make themselves aware of and abide by the occupational health and safety requirements of the workplace, and are expected to undergo any induction or other training provided for employees or visitors to the workplace, as appropriate. You will also be responsible for obtaining any relevant vaccinations, if applicable to your site.
Some placements will require a separate Blue Card or other certification for practice. If you do not apply for a Blue Card immediately upon enrolment in the course and allow sufficient time for the police check and issuing of the Card, you will be unable to participate in these activities. It may take up to 12 weeks for Blue Card Services to issue the Card.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.PY19 Master of Psychology (Educational and Developmental)
- Formulate approaches for engaging in critical thinking. decision making and reflective practice, drawing on cognitive, technical and creative skills, to identify and implement contemporary evidence-based intervention and assessment strategies in varied contexts that reflect culturally safe and responsive practice.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, ULO4, ULO5, Portfolio - Access, evaluate, and utilise relevant psychological information that informs and assists in intra- and inter-professional collaboration with a range of audiences and contexts that demonstrates creativity and initiative as an educational and developmental psychologist.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO4, ULO5, Portfolio - Promote and practise effective written, oral and digital communication to analyse and convey complex information and build productive professional relationships across diverse stakeholders.
Relates to: ULO4, Portfolio