PSY6103 Legal and ethical principles in clinical psychology practice and research

When you finish this unit, you should be able to:

1. 1

   Understand the legal and ethical principles which govern research and professional practice in psychology;

2. 2

   Appraise Australian codes of professional conduct in psychology to such issues as confidentiality, informed consent, freedom of information, intra and inter professional relationships, responsibilities, and professional conduct;

3. 3

   Define the professional role/s of the clinical psychologist, and differentiate roles, responsibilities, and relationships with other health professionals;

4. 4

   Develop, maintain, and conclude appropriate professional relationships with clients;

5. 5

   Appraise the intercultural and ethnic issues that impact on psychological practice;

6. 6

   Design the main phases of the key research approaches, including program evaluations, single subject designs, experiments, quasi-experiments, and qualitative projects;

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   Accommodate the considerations and complications of these approaches, (e.g., sampling biases, spurious variables, common method variance, suppressors, non-recursive relationships, confounds, consequential validity, asymmetric transfer, mediators, moderators, stakeholder needs, economic evaluation, family wise errors, power, autocorrelation, and nonlinear dynamics);

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   Apply multivariate statistics techniques to address some of these complications, such as ANCOVA, discriminant function analysis, logistic regression analysis, multiple regression analysis, canonical correlation, and factor analysis;

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   Recognize the fundamental principles of more advanced concepts, which can then be explored through additional reading, including HLM, grounded theory, survival analyses, meta-analyses, catastrophe theory, signal detection theory, ARIMA, interim designs, Bayesian theory, and structural equation modelling;

10. 10

    Develop creative and insightful methods to maximise the utility of research; and;

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    Justify and report the procedures and techniques that were utilised