COUNSELLING PSYCHOLOGY INTERNSHIP C

PSY6DIC

2017

Credit points: 10

Subject outline

This subject is a practical placement for Postgraduate Counselling Psychology students and continues from Internship B (PSY6DIB). Each student must complete a minimum of 334 placement hours and receive at least one hour of supervision from a qualified psychologist (i.e. a registered supervisor and member of the Counselling College) for every 7.5 hours (one day) of placement activity (in accordance with APAC requirements). The principal internship activity must be face-to-face counselling and psychotherapy. Students are expected to integrate their internship experiences into other coursework and submit case studies and/or presentations to successfully fulfil the subject requirements.

School: School of Psychology & Public Health

Credit points: 10

Subject Co-ordinator: Geoff Denham

Available to Study Abroad Students: No

Subject year level: Year Level 6 - Doctoral

Exchange Students: No

Subject particulars

Subject rules

Prerequisites: N/A

Co-requisites: N/A

Incompatible subjects: N/A

Equivalent subjects: N/A

Special conditions: This subject is available to Doctor of Counselling Psychology students only and will run subject to sufficient enrolment numbers.

Graduate capabilities & intended learning outcomes

01. TBA

Activities:: TBA

Melbourne, 2017, Semester 1, Off Campus

Overview

Online enrolment: Yes

Maximum enrolment size: N/A

Enrolment information:

Subject Instance Co-ordinator: Geoff Denham

Class requirements

Placement - Off Site
One 45.0 days placement - off site per study period and delivered via face-to-face.
"Total time in internships must add up to at least 1500 hours and 200 days of placement activity. Each internship must consist of a minimum of 45 days, 334 hours which includes at least 100 face-to-face client contact hours and at least 45 supervision hours (of which 50% must be individual supervision). An internship activity log and a supervision log signed weekly by the qualified psychologist supervisor are mandatory. Students are required to participate in a minimum of five placement settings to complete the Doctoral Program."

Assessments

Assessment element	Comments	%	ILO*
satisfactory completion of the internship, according to supervisors' and liaison lecturers' reports	criteria as set out in Internship Handbook.	100	01