This subject contains a 2 day Compulsory Residential School.
The residential school is intended to serve a number of functions:
" to introduce staff and students
" to orient students to the academic requirements, support services and technical facilities available to them
" to familiarize students with the detailed placement requirements of the professional psychology programs
" to commence provision of information regarding core foundational knowledge components of the professional psychology programs
" to commence the self-evaluation component of the Masters of Clinical Psychology
" to undertake the counselling skills training component required by accreditation guidelines
" to demonstrate the application of skills to diagnosis and case formulation
" to engage the students in case analysis and discussion
Activities include:
" Introduction to program
" Library tour
" Orientation to the interact site
" Provision of information regarding the academic and placement requirements of the programme
" small-group learning activities and role-plays, self-evaluation tasks, commencement of personal learning portfolio
" demonstrations of specific psychological skills
" case discussions and other small-group learning activities and role-plays