The Professional Context & Assessment and Formulation (P01909)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : HEA-P-PC&A&F

This course will provide an overview of clinical settings and professional systems of care within CAMHS services. These systems and professional roles within them will include a clarification of professional roles and the ethical context of professional conduct.

In this course the students will also be introduced to methods of clinical assessments, including clinical interviews and formal assessment tools such as structured interviews, standardised self-report measures and psychometric tests.

Entry Requirements

? This course is not available to visting students.

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Clinical Psychology, (School of Health in Social Science, Schedule D)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Semester 2 (Blocks 3-4)

? Additional Class Information : This course is taught within set blocks amounting to 10 days of teaching with approximately 6.5 hours per day.

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

Students will be able to:
1) Apply "appropriate" assessment procedures, develop "appropriate" formulations, and carry out "appropriate" interventions with clients, recognizing and observing appropriate professional boundaries and standards of competence, and conducting appropriate appraisal of the impact of such procedures in service delivery systems.
2) Choose, apply and interpret a broad range of assessment methods within and appropriate to CAMHS setting and the type of intervention that is likely to be required.
3) Demonstrate competence in the use of formal assessment procedures using standardised psychometric measures, use of systematic interviewing procedures.
4) Demonstrate the ability to develop formulations using a range of possible sources of information. Trainees will integrate information from assessments and other wide range of information sources to determine a coherent account of the clients needs and the cause, development and maintenance of clients problems.