Date of Reviion Date of Previou Reviion Programme Specification (2014-15) A programme pecification i required for any programme on which a tudent may be regitered. All programme of the Univerity are ubject to the Univerity Quality Aurance and Enhancement procee a et out in the DASA Policie and Procedure Manual. Programme Title Programme Code Doctorate in Clinical Pychology P34320 (PSY- DOC- CP) Criteria for Admiion (Pleae ee General Regulation) UCAS Code Final Award (exit route if applicable for Potgraduate Taught Programme) N/A JACS Code Doctorate in Clinical Pychology (D.Clin.Pych.) C800 Applicant mut poe, or expect to poe by admiion to the coure, at leat a econd cla Honour degree (firt diviion), or equivalent, which ha been accredited by the Britih Pychological Society a conferring the Graduate Bai for Chartered Memberhip (GBC). Applicant with le than a 2.1 degree may apply if they alo poe a higher degree with ditinct relevance to clinical pychology. Mode of Study (Full-time, Part-time, other) Full-time Type of Programme Single Subject Length of Programme 3 year Total Credit for Programme 540 potgradua te CAT Awarding Intitution/Body Teaching Intitution School/Department Framework for Higher Education Qualification Level http://www.qaa.ac.uk/publication/informationan dguidance Queen Univerity Belfat School of Pychology Level 8: Doctorate Degree QAA Benchmark Group Benchmark Statement for Clinical Pychology. Quality Aurance Agency for Higher Education (2004).
http://www.qaa.ac.uk/auringtandardandqualit y/ubject-guidance/page/ubject-benchmarktatement Collaborative Organiation and form of Collaboration (if applicable) Accreditation (PSRB) ATAS Clearance External Examiner Name: The Health Care Profeion Council (HCPC) and the Britih Pychological Society (BPS) Date of next cheduled accreditation viit Britih pychological Society i due an accreditation viit during 2016-17 academic eion. HCPC monitor the coure annually but only a major change would trigger viit. External Examiner Intitution/Organiation Prof Mike Wang Prof Eugene Mullan Dr Tom Patteron Dr Charlotte Wilon Univerity of Leiceter Univerity of Exeter Coventry Univerity Trinity College, Dublin Doe the Programme have any approved exemption from the Univerity General Regulation (Pleae ee General Regulation) No x (If ye, pleae tate here any exemption to regulation which have been approved for thi programme) Programme Specific Regulation Student with protected characteritic. Are tudent ubject to Fitne to Practie Regulation (Pleae ee General Regulation) Length of Programme Pleae indicate Fitne to Practie programme are thoe which permit tudent to enter a profeion which i itelf ubject to Fitne to Practie rule The minimum period of full-time tudy i three year and the maximum four year, excluding period of upended tudy. Accreditation of Prior Learning (APL) regulation will apply at the dicretion of the intitution. If gap in training occur of two year or more (e.g. through extended leave or tepping off after Year 1), the tudent may be required to repeat module or take contemporaneou module from the live programme at the dicretion of the Board of Examiner.
Educational Aim of Programme On completion of the programme the tudent will be able to: Pleae lit below the overarching aim and objective of the programme. a. To train tudent to the tandard required by the HCPC Standard of Proficiency and BPS Committee for Training in Clinical Pychology accreditation criteria and the requirement for regitration a Clinical Pychologit with the HCPC, and Chartered Pychologit with the BPS, for profeional practice in the NHS and other health and ocial care etting. b. To promote clinical pychology knowledge and kill, and related reearch kill, to doctoral level tandard, which equip graduate to work effectively with a range of client, acro the lifepan - with a range of acute and enduring, functional and organic, preentation - and in a range of etting from primary care to tertiary and reidential ervice. c. To promote eential kill in pychological aement utiliing pychometric, neuropychological, clinical interview and obervational method with individual, familie and group. d. To promote competence through academic learning and placement experience in at leat two formal model of pychological intervention, one of which mut come from the Cognitive Behavioural chool. Graduate of the programme hould alo be able to draw from and integrate intervention from a range of intervention knowledge bae a appropriate. e. To promote a reflective, cientit-practitioner, approach to pychological aement, formulation, intervention and evaluation. An etho pervade the coure of integrating pychological theory with practice, drawing from the evidence bae and ervice uer poition to inform practice and reearch activitie. f. To promote knowledge and kill of conultation, leaderhip and multidiciplinary working which foter the capacity for indirect work to promote health and well-being. g. To promote doctoral level reearch knowledge and kill which will enable the graduate to critically engage with the evidence bae of the profeion a a contributor, a well a a conumer. h. To promote peronal awarene and development, in particular with repect to how peronal and interperonal factor and diverity of cultural and ub-cultural context, impact on therapeutic procee and profeional practice.
i. To foter the highet calibre of ethical practice in clinical work and reearch activitie, in accordance with the HCPC Guidance on Conduct and Ethic, BPS Code of Conduct, profeional practice and tatutory guideline at national and regional level. Learning Outcome: Cognitive Skill On the completion of thi coure ucceful tudent will be able to: Each line hould contain a different kill outcome Teaching/Learning Method and Strategie Detail here the correponding teaching and learning method that will be employed to enure tudent can achieve the tated outcome Method of Aement Detail here the correponding aement method which will be ued to determine whether a tudent ha achieved the tated outcome. CS1 CS2 Select and yntheie prior knowledge and experience in order to apply thi critically and creatively in complex and novel clinical and reearch ituation. Think in a critical, reflective and evaluative way in order to make informed judgement on complex iue and in pecialit field, often in the abence of complete information. Lecture Seminar and tutorial Workhop Directed and elf-directed reading textbook and journal Problem baed and experiential learning exercie Video analyi and role-play Clinical practice and uperviion Reearch activity and uperviion Peronal mentoring Reflective practice and peronal awarene group Critical and ytematic literature review Report of clinical activity including cae tudie, ingle participant experimental deign, proce analyi and report of pychological aement and formulation Reflective practice aignment Cla tet In vivo aement of the application of knowledge to clinical practice. Clinical and reearch upervior rating of pecified clinical and reearch competencie demontrated on placement and through reearch activity Service-related reearch report Reearch propoal Reearch portfolio of two paper in format for publication
CS3 Think critically and reflectively with regard to peronal and profeional development. Learning Outcome: Tranferable Skill On the completion of thi coure ucceful tudent will be able to: Each line hould contain a different kill outcome Teaching/Learning Method and Strategie Detail here the correponding teaching and learning method that will be employed to enure tudent can achieve the tated outcome Method of Aement Detail here the correponding aement method which will be ued to determine whether a tudent ha achieved the tated outcome. TS1 TS2 TS3 Exercie peronal reponibility and largely autonomou initiative in complex and unpredictable ituation in profeional practice. Communicate pychologically-informed idea and concluion to pecialit and non-pecialit audience Manifet doctoral level reearch kill critical appraial of knowledge bae; form reearch partnerhip; conduct ervice Lecture Seminar and tutorial Workhop Directed and elf-directed reading textbook and journal Problem baed and experiential learning exercie Video analyi and role-play Clinical practice and uperviion Reearch activity and uperviion Peronal mentoring Reflective practice and peronal awarene group Critical and ytematic literature review Report of clinical activity including cae tudie, ingle participant experimental deign, proce analyi and report of pychological aement and formulation Reflective practice aignment Cla tet In vivo aement of the application of knowledge to clinical practice. Clinical and reearch upervior rating of pecified clinical and reearch competencie demontrated on placement and through reearch activity Service-related reearch report Reearch propoal Reearch portfolio of two paper in format for publication
TS4 related applicable reearch; conduct conceptual and generaliable applied reearch to a level which merit publication; dieminate and report in appropriate reearch output. Adapt practice to a range of organiational context; provide appropriate level of uperviion and leaderhip. Learning Outcome: Knowledge and Undertanding On the completion of thi coure ucceful tudent will be able to: Each line hould contain a different knowledge and undertanding outcome Teaching/Learning Method and Strategie Detail here the correponding teaching and learning method that will be employed to enure tudent can achieve the tated outcome Method of Aement Detail here the correponding aement method which will be ued to determine whether a tudent ha achieved the tated outcome. KU1 Pychological theory and evidence, related to the clinical preentation of variou pecialit client group, and acro the lifepan, which underpin clinical practice. Lecture Seminar and tutorial Workhop Directed and elf-directed reading textbook and journal Problem baed and experiential learning exercie Video analyi and role-play Clinical practice and uperviion Reearch activity and uperviion Peronal mentoring Reflective practice and peronal awarene group Critical and ytematic literature review Report of clinical activity including cae tudie, ingle participant experimental deign, proce analyi and report of pychological aement and formulation Reflective practice aignment Cla tet In vivo aement of the application of knowledge to clinical practice. Clinical and reearch upervior rating of pecified clinical and reearch competencie demontrated on placement and through reearch activity Service-related reearch report Reearch propoal Reearch portfolio of two paper in format for publication
KU2 At leat two formal model of pychological intervention, their evidence bae, protocol and implication for pychological aement, formulation, intervention and evaluation KU3 Reearch deign and analyi, application and evaluation KU4 Peronal, profeional and ethical iue a they pertain to the practice of clinical pychology. Learning Outcome: Subject Specific Skill On the completion of thi coure ucceful tudent will be able to Each line hould contain a different kill outcome SS1 Pychological aement development of working alliance; capacity to chooe, ue and interpret finding from a broad range of aement protocol including interview, pychometric and obervational method; conduct appropriate rik aement; ae within ociocultural context. Teaching/Learning Method and Strategie Detail here the correponding teaching and learning method that will be employed to enure tudent can achieve the tated outcome Lecture Seminar and tutorial Workhop Directed and elf-directed reading textbook and journal Problem baed and experiential learning exercie Video analyi and role-play Clinical practice and uperviion Reearch activity and uperviion Peronal mentoring Reflective practice and peronal awarene group Method of Aement Detail here the correponding aement method which will be ued to determine whether a tudent ha achieved the tated outcome. Critical and ytematic literature review Report of clinical activity including cae tudie, ingle participant experimental deign, proce analyi and report of pychological aement and formulation Reflective practice aignment Cla tet In vivo aement of the application of knowledge to clinical practice. Clinical and reearch upervior rating of pecified clinical and reearch competencie demontrated on placement and through reearch activity Service-related reearch report Reearch propoal Reearch portfolio of two paper in
SS2 Pychological formulation create a pychological formulation of preenting problem which integrate information from aement, utiliing a coherent theoretical framework and incorporating interperonal, ocio-cultural and biological factor; communicate to client and relevant other in a way which i helpful and ait with planning intervention; capacity to revie in light of intervention outcome and new information. format for publication SS3 SS4 SS5 Pychological intervention implement a formulation baed plan of intervention in appropriate collaboration with client, carer, ervice; utilie a appropriate at leat two formal model of pychological therapy from the cognitive behavioural chool and one other; carry out uch intervention when working with key clinical preentation of adulthood (e.g. depreion, anxiety, trauma, pychoi), childhood (e.g. mood, conduct, developmental) and pecialit population (e.g. neurological, dementia, challenging behaviour, forenic); promote therapeutic programme through indirect working (e.g. with familie, carer, multidiciplinary team). Evaluation of pychological intervention capacity to elect appropriate method to evaluate effectivene, acceptability and broader impact of intervention; kill in formal and informal audit procedure. Working in a critically reflective and elf-aware way capacity to reflect on how peronal procee impact on profeional practice; formulate peronal and profeional development plan; ue uperviion and critical feedback to reflect on practice; develop trategie to handle the emotional impact of practice with awarene of boundary iue.
SS6 SS7 Ethical deciion making in complex clinical and reearch context with the capacity to enure informed conent underpin engagement with client and reearch participant. Communication and teaching of pychological kill and opinion adapting to different recipient need; providing expert opinion in formal and informal etting; providing appropriate level of uperviion, training and leaderhip.
Programme Requirement Module Title Clinical Preentation of Adulthood Pychological Aement and Formulation Pychological Therapie 1 Peronal and Profeional Development 1 Applied Reearch 1 Placement 1 Foundation of Pychological Therapy Module Code 11 12 13 14 15 16 Level/ tage Credit Availability Duration Pre-requiite Aement S1 S2 Core Option Courework % Examination % None 100% None 50% 50% 1 15 Over 3 1 10 Over 3 1 20 Over 3 1 15 Over 3 1 60 Over 3 1 60 Over entire Year 1 None 100% None 50% and 50% Evaluation None 100% None Evaluation Specialit Clinical Preentation Advanced Pychological Aement Pychological Therapie 2 Peronal and Profeional Development 2 17 18 19 20 2 10 Over 3 2 15 Over 3 2 20 Over 3 2 15 Over 3 11-11- 11-11- 50% 50% 50% 50% 50% 50% 50% and 50% Evaluation
Applied Reearch 2 Placement 2 Placement 3 21 22 23 2 20 Over 3 2 50 Over 6 month 2 50 Over 6 month 11-11- 11- Supervior Rating Evaluation Evaluation Advanced Pychological Intervention Peronal and Profeional Development 3 Applied Reearch 3 Placement 4 Specialit Service 1 Placement 5 Specialit Service 2 24 25 26 27 28 3 10 Over 2 3 10 Over 3 3 60 Over 3 3 50 Over 6 month 3 50 Over 6 month 11-9023 11-9023 11-9023 11-9023 11-9023 100% 50% and 50% Evaluation Thei Evaluation Evaluation Approved by Director of Education: Print Name: Dr Aidan Feeney Signature: Date: 29 Augut 2014