Practitioner Training - Placement 3

Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Reflect on all aspects of your practice and development within the supervisory context
• Reflect on and evaluate interventions with the possibility of having to recognise when intervention may be inappropriate or ineffective
• Write a range of reports addressing the complexity of the systemic / child and adolescent context.
• Work effectively with the multidisciplinary team and communicate effectively with other professionals involved with the system and/or child and family
• Select appropriately and use a range of informal and formal assessment instruments appropriate to the client group including neuropsychological and psychometric instruments specific to use with clients and/or children and adolescents
• Implement interventions based on your formulations, using a range of evidence based and theoretical models. These may be directly with the person/child or indirectly through their family or other carers involved.
• Take account of the complexity of systemic work, which may include working with children and in partnership with their families, carers, or with other systems and professionals, including awareness of the power differential in relation to the client or child, their family and the wider social and professional contexts
• Engage and involve systems and/or children and families in assessment, formulation and interventions planned in a meaningful way, adapting practice to take account of cultural, psychological and developmental issues which may affect explicit and implicit communication within the therapeutic relationship
• Develop psychological formulations using the results of assessment materiel and drawing on relevant theoretical models including developmental, neuropsychological and therapeutic to form the basis for interventions with individuals and families

You will be assigned to your systemic or Child and Adolescence placement for your third or fourth placement under the supervision of a HCPC registered Clinical Psychologist with at least 18 months of post qualification experience. The range of settings will vary including community based CAMH services, inpatient and outpatient hospital based services and/or other specialist services that offer systemically informed opportunities. Trainees have approximately 63 days of clinical practice organised over 21 weeks with a minimum placement day attendance totalling 47 days. The syllabus content will vary according to the setting but will address the learning outcomes

The trainee's learning will be via supervised practice and self-directed study and reflection. Trainees will receive a minimum of an hour of formal supervision with a suitably qualified HCPC registered clinician and up to three hours informal contact time each week Trainee will be expected to observe and be observed by their supervisor. Supervision will offer opportunities for skills learning, facilitation of theory practice links and management and reflection on the trainee’s professional development. A mid-placement review will be conducted by the trainee’s personal tutor midway through the placement to review their progress.

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Clinical assessment

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback:
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: No

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.