Advanced Clinical Practice

Unit code: APC7009 | Study level: Postgraduate
Credit points
12
(Generally, 1 credit = 10 hours of classes and independent study.)
Location
Footscray Park
Prerequisites
N/A
Overview
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Overview

This unit extends students’ knowledge, practice, and critical thinking skills relevant to contemporary, emerging, and advanced psychological practice topics. Learning will focus on extending students' foundational clinical competencies to engage in assessment, formulation, intervention, and interprofessional practice relevant to complex mental health presentations across diverse population groups. Learning will also focus on critical engagement with, and evaluation of, contemporary issues relevant to psychological practice. The content will include working with complex trauma and other complex mental health presentations, neurodiversity, addressing mental health stigma, and conducting telehealth/digital mental health interventions.

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:

  1. Formulate and adapt interventions for complex mental health presentations and diverse groups;
  2. Critically review, contextualise, and evaluate the role of contemporary and emerging models of psychological practice; and
  3. Critically reflect on the role of clinical psychologists in advocating for client rights and mental health needs in the context of interprofessional practice.

Assessment

For Melbourne campuses

Assessment type: Essay
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Grade: 30%
Critical and personal reflection on clinical psychology practice and mental health stigma (1500 words)
Assessment type: Presentation
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Grade: 30%
Group presentation based on a case study (20 minutes)
Assessment type: Review
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Grade: 40%
Critical review and reflection on the implications of digital mental health interventions (2000 words)

Required reading

The below reading will be available via VU Collaborate: Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care. (2020). National Safety and Quality Digital Mental Health Standards. Author: NSW, Australia. National Mental Health Commission. (2022). National Stigma and Discrimination Reduction Strategy: Draft for Consultation. Author: NSW, Australia. Australian Health Ministers’ Advisory Council. (2013). A national framework for recovery-oriented mental health services: Guide for practitioners and providers. Authors: Canberra, Australia.

As part of a course

This unit is studied as part of the following course(s):

Master of Applied Psychology (Clinical Psychology)
AMAL | Masters (coursework) degree | Duration: 2 years

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