Health Psychology for Clinicians PG (6308.6)

Required texts

A number of readings related to topics in the unit are available through Canvas in the Reading List.  Students are required to read these before the workshops in order to gain initial insight into the topics reviewed and optimise learning in formal teaching. 

Additional resources are listed below:

Andrasik, F., Goodie, J.L. & Peterson, A.L. (Eds) (2015). Biopsychosocial Assessment in Clinical Health Psychology, The Guilford Press: New York.

Belar, C.D. & Deardorff, W.W. (2009). Clinical Health Psychology in Medical Settings: A Practitioner's Guidebook, Second Edition. American Psychological Association: USA.

Nikcevic (A.V.), Kuczmierczyk, A.R. & Bruch, M. (Eds). (2006) Formulation and Treatment in Clinical Health Psychology. Routledge: UK.   Miller, W.R., & Rollnick, S. (2013). Motivational Interviewing: Helping people change. New York: The Guilford Press

Australian Psychological Society (2007). Code of ethics. Melbourne. [Available online at http://www.psychology.org.au/Assets/Files/Code_Ethics_2007.pdf] Copies are also available from the library.

American Psychiatric Association (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, 5th ed. Arlington, VA: Author. 

Submission of assessment items

Extensions & Late submissions

Extensions:

Please read the above information carefully regarding extensions and late penalties. In addition to the above, please note the following:

1. Students are expected to work on the assessment items throughout the teaching period. Early communication of problems is strongly advised. Students should assess early in the teaching period whether they have a reasonable likelihood of being able to complete the unit and should consider withdrawing by the census date, if required.
2. Completed Assignment Extension forms should be emailed to the unit convener along with supporting documentation (please put "Extension request" in the subject line) .
3. The unit convener will consider your request, determine the length of the extension to be granted and email you advising whether your request is approved or declined. If approved, the new due date will also appear on your Moodle site where your assignment is submitted.
4. Assignments submitted after the due date, regardless of whether an extension was granted, will be returned at a later date than those submitted on time.

Special assessment requirements

None

Supplementary assessment

Not offered.

Assessment Item Resubmission

In each assessment task, an ungraded pass is achieved by demonstrating competency overall through a passing grade.  Students must demonstrate an appropriate standard across all task requirements.  If a student has passed assessment task requirements overall but is marked as below competency standards on some criteria, they will have the opportunity to address these criteria through one resubmission to demonstrate competency at appropriate standard.  Unit convenors (or markers) will provide specific feedback in these circumstances to inform the student of the issues and criterion to be addressed. However, if the assignment still does not meet appropriate competency standards following resubmission, a fail grade will be applied.  If a student has not passed the assessment task requirements overall in the first submission, there will be no option to resubmit and a fail grade will be applied.

Students must submit/attempt all assignments to be eligible to pass the unit, and must achieve an ungraded pass in all assessment tasks in a given unit to achieve an ungraded pass for the unit.

Students must apply academic integrity in their learning and research activities at UC. This includes submitting authentic and original work for assessments and properly acknowledging any sources used.

Academic integrity involves the ethical, honest and responsible use, creation and sharing of information. It is critical to the quality of higher education. Our academic integrity values are honesty, trust, fairness, respect, responsibility and courage.

UC students have to complete the Academic Integrity Module annually to learn about academic integrity and to understand the consequences of academic integrity breaches (or academic misconduct).

UC uses various strategies and systems, including detection software, to identify potential breaches of academic integrity. Suspected breaches may be investigated, and action can be taken when misconduct is found to have occurred.

Information is provided in the Academic Integrity Policy, Academic Integrity Procedure, and University of Canberra (Student Conduct) Rules 2023. For further advice, visit Study Skills.

Participation requirements

Required IT skills

No special IT skills are required for this unit, although it is expected that all students will have basic word-processing skills. If you are unfamiliar with searching specialist databases for accessing Psychology journals, please see the UC library site for details of training sessions:

http://www.canberra.edu.au/library/research-gateway/research-skills-training

In-unit costs

There are no set costs for this unit.

Work placement, internships or practicums

Not applicable

Additional information

Moderation Processes
In accordance with University policy (3.15 in Assessment Procedures), moderation is required to ensure consistency in standards of marking in a unit.  The Master of Clinical Psychology program and units undertake moderation in a number of domains, specifically through review of unit outlines and unit content, assessment item details and marking guides, and in marking assignments.  All assessment pieces or marks resulting in a fail grade will be moderated by another member of the clinical team, as well as a random selection of assignments covering a range of participants in the unit. This process ensures that marking across the program is consistent.  All units are subjected to moderation at the Discipline level at the conclusion of each teaching period.

• Semester 2, 2021, On-campus, UC - Canberra, Bruce (203110)
• Semester 2, 2020, On-campus, UC - Canberra, Bruce (203111)