PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE AND SUPERVISION A

PHE4PSA

2017

Credit points: 15

Subject outline

In this subject you will develop your professional and reflective practice skills, learn to critique your clinical planning and decision making in relation to client work and begin to understand your role as members of a practitioner teams. You will focus on your personal development as trainee art therapists based on your experience of 200 hours of clinical placement (PHE4ACA) at either a hospital or community based setting in a small supervision group. You will reflect on, discuss and develop strategies for managing this initial period in your professional development within settings which may have varying understandings of the practice of art therapy.

School: School of Psychology & Public Health

Credit points: 15

Subject Co-ordinator: Patricia Fenner

Available to Study Abroad Students: No

Subject year level: Year Level 4 - UG/Hons/1st Yr PG

Exchange Students: No

Subject particulars

Subject rules

Prerequisites: Must be enrolled in HMART - Master of Art Therapy

Co-requisites: N/A

Incompatible subjects: N/A

Equivalent subjects: N/A

Special conditions: N/A

Graduate capabilities & intended learning outcomes

01. Ability to recognise clients' needs and to respect confidentiality.

Activities:: Collaborate with client to gain permission to present a de-identified case study for class.

02. Apply art tools to assess client needs and design appropriate art therapy interventions.

Activities:: Presentation of a case study.

03. Demonstrate reflexive practice skills and critique self as therapist in the trainee role including an awareness of the impact of self on others, recognising clients' needs and respecting confidentiality.

Activities:: Participate in supervision group discussion.

04. Analyse professional responsibility and relationships.

Activities:: Group exercises in class.

05. Contextualise and orient practical application in keeping with the goals and clinical tasks of the placement setting.

Activities:: Ability to adapt art therapy strategies with clients according to personal needs and the culture of the setting.

06. Demonstrate the ability to function as a team player and especially with the onsite supervisor.

Activities:: Group discussions and use of appropriate feedback using advanced level interpersonal skills as applied with placement supervisor/s

Melbourne, 2017, Semester 1, Day

Overview

Online enrolment: No

Maximum enrolment size: N/A

Enrolment information:

Subject Instance Co-ordinator: Patricia Fenner

Class requirements

Unscheduled Online Class
One 1.0 hours unscheduled online class per week and delivered via blended.

Lecture
One 2.0 hours lecture per week and delivered via face-to-face.
"For two weeks."

Tutorial
One 2.0 hours tutorial per week and delivered via face-to-face.
"For ten weeks."

Assessments

Assessment element	Comments	%	ILO*
Ethics quiz (20 Minutes)		10	03
LTU Supervisor's Professional Practice Skills competency assessment	assessment in consultation between supervisor and student	30	02, 03, 04, 05, 06
One 2,500-word case study report, and one case presentation for 30 minutes (1500 word equivalent)	This component incorporates two versions of the one case study.	60	01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06

Melbourne, 2017, Semester 2, Day