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Courses Handbook 2012

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2012.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2011.

309516 (v.1) Psychology 711 - Psychological Assessment

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Tuition Patterns

The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline.

Unit references, texts and outcomes

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Area: School of Psychology and Speech Pathology
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 3.0
Seminar: 1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s): Admission into 309500 (v.1) Doctor of Philosophy (Clinical Psychology) or any previous version
OR
Admission into 309510 (v.2) Doctor of Philosophy (Counselling Psychology) or any previous version
OR
Admission into 187204 (v.6) Master of Psychology or any previous version
Syllabus: Provides students with the broad range of skills necessary to complete comprehensive psychological assessments. Integration of a number of assessment approaches including clinical assessment interviews, functional analysis and evaluation of psychologicaltests. Selection, interpretation and integration of findings from the most commonly used psychological assessments and psychological report writing. Understanding individual problems within general medical, legal, school and organisational contexts. Developmental issues in assessment with a focus on child, adolescent and older adults.
Field of Education: 090701 Psychology
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2012 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External