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PSYC72-422: Professional Experience and Practice in Psychology

Description

In this subject, you will work in the Bond University Health and Wellness Clinic under the supervision of a registered psychologist. You are required to attend one week's orientation during 0-Week of the semester, then be available for three days per week in the clinic from weeks 1 to 14, completing at least 300 hours of professional experience. Off-campus clinical placement may also be required.

Subject details

Type: Postgraduate Subject
Code: PSYC72-422
EFTSL: 0.250
Faculty: Faculty of Society and Design
Semesters offered:
  • September 2025 [Non-Standard Offering]
Credit: 20
Study areas:
  • Psychology, Criminology, and Social Sciences
Subject fees:
  • Commencing in 2024: $12,880.00
  • Commencing in 2025: $13,460.00
  • Commencing in 2026: $14,080.00

Learning outcomes

  1. Apply evidence-based and scientific methods to professional practice across the lifespan in empirically valid and culturally responsive ways.
  2. Demonstrate the capacity to work effectively within the clinic adhering to ethical requirements, regulatory and statutory obligations, and adherence to professional standards.
  3. Demonstrate the capacity to engage in self-reflective and self-evaluative professional practice.
  4. Employ professional communication skills in oral and written formats, while ensuring respect for clients, colleagues, and other professionals.
  5. Perform appropriate culturally responsive evidence-based psychological assessments suitable to identify mental health concerns, ascertain risks, functional impairments, strengths, develop case formulations, and monitor outcomes.
  6. Demonstrate capacity to formulate and implement evidence-based interventions including management of risk.
  7. Rigorously apply professional practice policies and procedures, including as they relate to referral management and record-keeping.
  8. Demonstrate an understanding and application of cultural responsiveness, including with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.
  9. Demonstrate an understanding and application of the principles of inter-professional learning and practice.

Enrolment requirements

Requisites:

Pre-requisites:

Co-requisites:

There are no co-requisites

Assumed knowledge:

Assumed knowledge is the minimum level of knowledge of a subject area that students are assumed to have acquired through previous study. It is the responsibility of students to ensure they meet the assumed knowledge expectations of the subject. Students who do not possess this prior knowledge are strongly recommended against enrolling and do so at their own risk. No concessions will be made for studentsโ€™ lack of prior knowledge.

Restrictions: This subject is not available to
  • Study Abroad Students

This subject is not available as a general elective. To be eligible for enrolment, the subject must be specified in the studentsโ€™ program structure.

Subject dates

Non-Standard Offering
Enrolment opens: 20/07/2025
Semester start: 08/09/2025
Subject start: 08/09/2025
Last enrolment: 22/09/2025
Teaching census: 09/10/2025
Withdraw - Financial: 10/10/2025
Withdraw - Academic: 30/10/2025