Postgraduate Course: Clinical Psychology 2 (CLPS12035)
Course Outline
| School | School of Health in Social Science |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 12 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 40 |
ECTS Credits | 20 |
| Summary | This course is mandatory for all DClinPsychol second year postgraduate students. Students will develop a critical overview of the application of clinical psychology to a wide range of emotional, behavioural and neuropsychological disorders within child and adolescent, older adults, neuropsychology and forensic settings. |
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Academic Description
Students will receive knowledge-based sessions, leading to a critical analysis and understanding of the principal theories and practices typically used with service users in the above settings. In addition, students will receive practical training on using therapeutic skills most often encountered in these specialisms and will be taught sufficient generic awareness and understanding of these skills and knowledge to be able to apply them to novel problems and circumstances. Relevant professional issues will be covered, including multi-professional working, NHS management and service development. The teaching also aims to deliver a detailed grounding in relevant issues in client, clinical work, service, legislation and professional areas. Controversies and debates within the specialisms will be explored and trainees will be expected to reflect upon these and reach independent, defensible conclusions regarding their own practice.
Students will attend in blocks of teaching and monthly teaching days. Students also have dedicated study time during this course during which they are expected to be studying towards the course learning outcomes, and for Research 2 learning outcomes.
Outline Content
Engagement, assessment, formulation and treatment in relation to older people with a range of organic and functional problems of old age, neuropsychological profiles, rehabilitation, adapting therapy for older people, awareness of the evidence base, Scottish policy regarding ageing. Common mental health problems, dementia, stress and distress.
Engagement, assessment, formulation and treatment in relation to children, young people and families. Developmental psychology, attachment, communication, child protection, common mental health problems in children and young people, neuropsychological profiles, paediatric health psychology, looked after and accommodated children, sequelae and working with child sexual abuse, team working.
Brain and behaviour relationships across the lifespan, head injury, progressive degenerative diseases, psychological testing, neuropsychological profiles across a wide range of neurological disorders, reporting, formulating, rehabilitation, psychological impacts of neurological diseases.
Assessment and management of risk of offending, sexual and violent offending, offenders with intellectual disabilities, stalking, domestic violence. Understanding and intervening in forensic settings.
Professional issues, consultancy, leadership, reflective practice, strategy and policy, teamwork, the professional body. A consideration of the inherent power imbalance between practitioners and clients, the impact of one's own value base on clinical practice, and the impact of difference, diversity and social inequalities on the expression of clinical problems and the implications of this for clinical practice.
Student Learning Experience
This course uses significant elements of on campus teaching/workshops and distance participation. Some sessions are live in Edinburgh (classroom-based activities), some involve self-directed eLearning activities, and other sessions will make use of synchronous video conferencing (VC). The teaching is a mix of didactic, discussion based and clinical skills workshops. Self-directed eLearning sessions tend to focus on engagement in written or video recorded media, eLearning tools and online or VC discussion groups. For online sessions, a blended, flipped classroom approach is often utilised combining self-directed eLearning activities followed by an online synchronous session using video conferencing.
Student learning is evidenced by the production of a 4000 ¿ 6000 word case conceptualisation, based upon clinical practice relevant to this area. Marking criteria and detailed guidance on the case conceptualisation is available in the course handbook and there is specific additional guidance provided to support trainees in writing their case conceptualisation on work completed with the specific clinical populations in question (e.g., CYP, OA, neuropsychology).
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2024/25, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: 47 |
| Course Start |
Full Year |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
400
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Lecture Hours 198,
Feedback/Feedforward Hours 18,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 8,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
176 )
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| Additional Information (Learning and Teaching) |
Course should be Level 12 not 8
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
An extended case conceptualisation, which will include a review and critique of relevant literature as it relates to an outline of a clinical case study, and the critical reflection of outcome and process of the case described. |
| Feedback |
Summative Feedback
Feedback and provisional marks will be returned to trainees through Turnitin once all work has been returned from markers and the results collated. All coursework will be returned with detailed feedback and comments.
Formative Feedback
During CP2, trainees will participate in role-play during clinical skills workshops and engage in seminar discussions. Some sessions will also take the form of problem-based learning, in which trainees will work in small groups before feeding back their findings (verbally or via e-learning) to the whole group. Lecturers, workshop facilitators and peers will provide formative feedback on trainee's contributions to these elements of training.
Trainees are expected to provide their supervisors with a copy of the case conceptualisation. Preferably a copy of the feedback should be sent to supervisors, though at minimum an email or telephone call conveying the general feedback should be provided. Supervisors will provide verification to the programme that the case conceptualisation represents a fair account of the clinical work undertaken by the trainee.
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| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Demonstrate a critical, detailed and reflective understanding of the main theories, principles and concepts relating to the child mental health, neuropsychology, forensic clinical psychology and the clinical psychology of old age, including assessment, formulation, treatment and evaluation.
- Apply the concepts, theories and principles of the above specialities in an integrated, critical, ethical and professional way in clinical practice.
- Apply the knowledge and skills learned to develop creative and original responses to clinical problems and issues.
- Analyse, synthesise and evaluate the taught material and apply it to dealing with complex and novel situations and issues in an informed and reflective way.
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Reading List
Detailed reading lists are available in the Academic and Course Handbooks here:
http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/health/clinical-psychology/studying/resources/doctorate-resources
Prioritised references are:
Carr A. (2006) The Handbook of Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychology: A Contextual Approach. Routledge, London.
Woods, R.T. & Clare, L. (2008) (Eds) Handbook of the Clinical Psychology of Ageing, Second Edition. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
Howitt, D (2002) Forensic and Criminal Psychology. Prentice-Hall.
Goldstein, L.H. & McNeil, J.E. (2004) Clinical Neuropsychology: A Practical guide and assessment and management for clinicians. Wiley |
Additional Information
| Course URL |
https://www.ed.ac.uk/health/subject-areas/clinical-psychology/postgraduate-taught/doctorate |
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Students that successfully pass this course will have demonstrated the required knowledge and understanding of clinical psychological work with the above client groups.
They will further possess the attitudes, qualities and skills that are considered basic and introductory to working with these client groups.
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| Keywords | Clinical Psychology,Child and Adolescent Mental Health,Older Adults,Neuropsychology,Professional |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Jamie Kennedy-Turner
Tel: (0131 6)51 3969
Email: Jamie.Kennedy-Turner@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mr Timothy Abbot
Tel: (0131 6)50 8498
Email: Tim.Abbot@ed.ac.uk |
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