309516 (v.1) Psychology 711 - Psychological Assessment

Area:	School of Psychology
Credits:	25.0
Contact Hours:	4.0
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.
Seminar:	1 x 4 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s):	309513 (v.1) Psychology 795 - Preparation for Professional Clinical Practice or any previous version OR 309544 (v.1) Psychology 795 - Preparation for Professional Practice or any previous version OR 12525 (v.2) Psychology Professional Practice (Counselling) 695 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. This unit has been developed for students admitted to the Doctor of Philosophy (Clinical Psychology) or Doctor of Philosophy (Counselling Psychology).
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Field of Education:	090701 Psychology
SOLT (Online) Definitions*:	Informational *Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type:	Grade/Mark

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Partially Online Internal	Area External	Central External	Fully Online
2008	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