This unit is designed to extend skills in the Psychology Clinic, specifically clinical assessment, formulation, treatment planning, and treatment implementation skills and knowledge for adult and child patients. It also extends trainees' knowledge and experience conducting and interpreting psychometric assessments. Trainees will be allocated to new supervisors for this placement and supervision methods will become less intense, more individual and begin to reflect formats available in external placements, although frequent direct observation of the trainee's clinical practice continues. Clinical work may involve the integration of more than one model of therapy, a capacity to reflect more on process as well as content, the capacity to respond to more complex issues, including those related to personality and the greater individualization of approaches for each case. An additional aim of this unit of study is to equip students to assess and treat complex presentations such as personality disorders. This unit focuses specifically on two models of therapy, schema therapy and dialectical behaviour therapy. Both of these models, developed from cognitive-behaviour therapy, are suitable for personality disorders, or more intractable or chronic presentations.
Unit details and rules
Academic unit | Psychology Academic Operations |
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Credit points | 6 |
Prerequisites
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PSYC6079 |
Corequisites
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None |
Prohibitions
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None |
Assumed knowledge
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None |
Available to study abroad and exchange students | Yes |
Teaching staff
Coordinator | Paul Rhodes, p.rhodes@sydney.edu.au |
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