Module 2: Job Paths 1 Flashcards
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What are the main job tasks and potential places of employment for a clinical psychologist?
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Main Tasks
- Assessing mental health
- Working alongside a multidisciplinary team
- Delivery therapy and interventions
- Devising treatment plans
- Researching and report writing
- Undertaking research and service evaluation
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Potential Employment
- A wide range of health related settings incl hospitals, justice system, prisons, health centres
- Private practice
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What is a clinical psychologist?
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- Specialist in assessing, diagnosing and treating mental health issues.
- Often developing specialisation in age groups, illnesses, or therapies
- A science practitioner: take a rigorous, systematic and evidence based approach to their work.
- Example daily tasks
- Update clinical review and management plan
- Community assessment
- Therapy session
- Phone calls and administration
- Write reports
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What is clinical neuropsychology?
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- Specialists in assessment diagnosis and treatment of psychological conditions involving the brain and its functioning
- Cognitive, behavioural and emotional functioning
- Short to long term, using clincial tools
- Examples of treatment issues
- Memory, Learning and attention
- Language, reading
- Problem solving, decision making
- Examples of conditions
- Developmental, Degenerative, Infectious, nutritional, Immunicological, Metabolic, Drug/alcohol, Traumatic
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What are the main job tasks and potential places of employment for a clinical neuropsychologist?
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Main tasks:
- Providing rehabilitation and treatment
- Carrying out assessments of neuropsychological problems
- Writing case notes and reports
- Working with an interdisciplinary team
- Evaluating services
- Undertaking research
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Places of employment:
- Hospitals and acute settings
- Rehabilitation centres
5
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What did Carless and Prodan find about the effect of practicum training on postgraduate students?
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Practicum training (PT) produces greater clarity of vocational preferences
- Students figuring out preferences
- Possibly confounded by having completed more coursework
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PT doesn’t affect Career Comittment
- Likely already strong by postgrad
- 3 factors of career commitment;
- resilience (ability to adapt and persevere)
- Insight (realisticness of self and goal perception)
- Identity (self definition by career)
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PT doesn’t affect Self-efficacy
- possible measurement issue
- already high
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PT doesn’t affect Job attainment confidence
- High confidence levels already
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What is counselling psychology?
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- Counselling psychologists assess, diagnose and treat clients for a range of mental health disorders using evidence based approaches
- Also work as mediators in conflicts, work with couples, staff, families
- Generally less severe conditions than clinical
- More time in therapy and interventions, variety of approaches
- Examples of problems and conditions
- Grief and loss
- Life transitions
- Relationship difficulties
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Self-esteem
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7
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What are the main tasks and potential places of employment for counselling psychologists?
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Main job tasks:
- Undertaking individual and group therapy
- Providing non-judgemental care and support
- Problem solving with clients
- Establishing rapport, and therapeutic relationship
- Gaining commitment from the client
- Referring client to other services as appropriate
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Potential employment:
- Hospitals, organisations, consultancies
- Private practice from home or consulting rooms
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What are the major issues facing Counselling Psychology in Australia?
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Two Tier Medicare System
- Divides rebates into Clinical Psychology and Everyone Else
- Implies a lesser expertise that has permeated the public mind
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Reduction in Courses
- As a result of medicare system and redcued uni funding, most postgrad options for non clinical psyc are closing
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Lack of clear definition
- Clinical psychs obstruct sharing expertise in mental health disorders
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Term “counsellor”
- Unprotected term bleeds over in public eye
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Employment:
- Due to medicare, career progression in many hospitals is limited to clinica and neuroclinical psychologists
9
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What are the core features of counselling psychology according to Mattia 2016?
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Counselling and psychotherapy;
- The science-practitioner model
- Due to minimal differences between therapeutic approaches training teaches many models
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Diagnosis and treatment of psychological problems and mental health disorders
- Focus on problems arising from adverse life events, diagnosed mental issues and psychopathology
- Focus on couples, group or family therapy with extensive training
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The therapeutic alliance
- Focus on the role of the therapeutic alliance for outcome variance
10
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What is community psychology?
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- Psychologists who work with issues relating to communities and individuals within them
- Focus on reciprocal relationship between individuals and community
- Can work on broad structural changes
- Work collaboratively, respecting equity, diversity and social justice
- Examples
- Substance abuse
- communicable disease
- teen pregnancy
- homelessness
- immigration
- rural/remote communities
- environmental disasters
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What are the main job tasks and potential employment opportunities for community psychologists?
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Main Job Tasks
- Evaluate community programs
- Assess psychological needs of individuals, groups, organisations and communities
- Provide counselling and advocacy
- Develop and implement group interventions and education
- Negotiate, mediate conflict
- Conduct community research and consultation
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Employment
- Community health centres, organisations, public policy institutions
- Research centres and academic settings
12
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What are the main job tasks and potential places of employment for an educational and developmental psych?
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Main job tasks
- Working alongside other professionals
- Carrying out assessments
- Providing consultation, support and advice to teachers, parents and carers
- Working as part of a team to support indidivuals
- Conducting research in educational institutions
- Report writing and making recommendations
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Potential employment
- Educational authorities, health and social services, schools
- Private practice, consultancy
13
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Give examples of issues a developmental psyc may deal with across the lifespan
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Early childhood:
- Developmental delay assessment
- Specific disabilities assessment
- Infant attachment disorders
- Parenting issues
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School years
- Separation anxiety/transition problems
- Learning difficulties or giftedness
- Peer relationships, bullying
- Behavioural problems
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Adolescence
- Peer relationships
- Sexuality issues
- Mental health and drug problems
- Career guidance
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Adulthood
- Relationships/divorce/separation
- Adoption/parenting issues
- Career and work stresses
- Further education in workplace
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Later Adulthood
- Healthy aging/coping with decline
- Dependency
- Grief and Loss
14
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What are some of the benefits, opportunities and considerations when volunteering?
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- Benefits
- Satisfaction from helping others
- Developing new skills
- Meeting new people/networking
- Community engagement
- Increased social conscience
- CV
- Considerations
- Don’t over commit
- Seek experiences that fill gaps in your skills
- Organisations
- University research programs
- Beyondblue/blackdog/lifeline
15
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What are the differences between group and team work?
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