HPY722 - Practice and Ethics in Professional Psychology
| Year: | 2025 unit information |
|---|---|
| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Waterfront (Geelong) |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Cohort rule: | This unit is only available to students enrolled in H744 |
| Prerequisite: | Nil |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | HPS776, HPS976 |
| Study commitment | Students will on average spend 150 hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. This will include weekly educator guided online learning activities within the unit site. |
| Scheduled learning activities - campus | 1 x 2 hour online seminar per week |
| In-person attendance requirements | Students are to attend 2 x 1 day practical experience (1 day at Burwood campus, 1 day at Waterfront campus). Dates of practical experiences to be advised at the start of the trimester. |
Content
This unit will prepare students for professional practice as a psychologist by providing knowledge, reflection and practice in approaching ethical and professional issues. It will extend students' understanding of the ethical, legal and governance frameworks that relate to psychological practice and ensure that students are familiar with the professional standards and core requirements of safe and effective service.
Students will apply ethical decision-making frameworks and professional codes of practice and guidelines to explore, clarify and resolve a range of ethical dilemmas commonly encountered by psychologists. Contemporary practice paradigms of client-centred care and recovery orientation will be considered along with the need to ensure respectful and culturally reflective practice for all communities. Students will engage in active reflection, focussing on their personal ethical development, their emerging professional identity as a psychologist, and their proactive plan for managing their own health and wellbeing and work-related psychological risk factors.
This unit also provides students the opportunity to engage in interprofessional learning activities as part of the Faculty of Health's Collaborative Practice Curriculum. Working in teams with students from a range of health professions, students will explore the importance of effective collaboration and engage in simulated practice activities to deepen understanding of the roles, responsibilities, capacities, constraints and ethics of each other's professions.
Hurdle requirement
Attendance and satisfactory participation in two 1-day practical experiences (workshops).
Unit Fee Information
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