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School: Arts and Humanities

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  • Unit Title

    Psychological Interventions

  • Unit Code

    PSY5510

  • Year

    2027

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    20

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Deirdre DRAKE

Description

This unit develops students' knowledge base and conceptual abilities in the principles and practice of key psychological interventions. Examples of the application of basic psychological intervention strategies in health promotion, relapse prevention, and management of psychological effects of health conditions will be covered.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must be enrolled in the Master of Psychology in order to complete this unit.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Perform and reflect on interpersonal communication and questioning skills for psychological practice.
  2. Explain how basic psychological intervention strategies apply across various contexts.
  3. Plan and implement approaches to ensure culturally responsive communication and application of psychological intervention strategies.
  4. Appraise the principles that underpin psychological interventions.

Unit Content

  1. Approaches to prevention in psychology.
  2. Understanding the biological, social and psychological determinants of health and illness in general, and in relation to Aboriginal Australians.
  3. Primary and secondary health promotion, relapse prevention and coping with psychological effects of physical illness.
  4. Knowledge of core psychological treatments and interventions.
  5. The body-mind connection, identifying stress, and inducing the relaxation response.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
PerformanceVideo recorded interview and written reflection50%
ExerciseFormulating a culturally responsive psychological intervention strategy50%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

  • Plagiarism: Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).
  • Unauthorised collaboration (collusion): Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).
  • Contract cheating: Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.
  • Cheating in an exam: Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment Procedure - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment Procedure - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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