Psychology in Professional Practice 2

Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Demonstrate effective interpersonal communication skills across a range of settings and activities.
• Demonstrate skills to work collaboratively with children, young people and the adults who care, work and plan for them to develop and implement practices and strategies to create and maintain effective and supportive learning environments.
• Demonstrate an appreciation of diversity in society and the experiences and contributions of different ethnic, socio-cultural and faith groups.
• Demonstrate the capacity to adapt practice to different settings e.g. early years, primary and secondary schools, colleges of further education, youth justice and other public service and third sector settings.
• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the structures and systems to support learning and development, for children, young people and young adults aged from 0–25 years.
• Demonstrate self-awareness and work as a reflective practitioner.
• Demonstrate an understanding and application of equality and diversity principles and actively promote inclusion and equity in their professional practice.

In this module you will gain practical skills to help you work as an educational psychologist, as well as knowledge about how the Local Authority organised. You will further develop your knowledge about the structures and deployment of Services for children and young people in the community, as well as other issues in schools that affect children’s educational experiences, at class and whole school level. You will be expected to take on a caseload under supervision. There is a close relationship with skills taught in PSYC xxx Consultation, Assessment and Intervention 2 where these skills are taught.

Teaching and learning methods

The core content of this module is delivered on placement where you apply the knowledge and understanding acquired in year 1 in a wider Local Authority Context. Practice is supervised regularly by a Local Authority Supervisor whose role it is to ensure that you undertake activities which match and extend your developing casework skills. There are close links between placement and the University through regular placement meetings.

Resources & Reading list

Textbooks

Frederickson, N., & Cline, T. (2009). Special Educational Needs, Inclusion and Diversity. Maidenhead, UK: Open University Press.

Beaver, R (2011). Educational Psychology Casework: A Practice Guide. London: Jessica Kingsley.

Health and Care Professions Council. (2012). Standards of conduct, performance and ethics..

Kelly, B., Woolfson, L., & James Boyle, J. (2017). Frameworks for Practice in Educational Psychology: A Textbook for Trainees and Practitioners.. Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

British Psychological Society (2009). Code of ethics and conduct..

Assessment strategy

The practical work file is a product of your placement learning. It assesses the BPS Competencies and learning outcomes. The work files form a report of activity relevant to the acquisition of practitioner competencies. You use examples from your placement and academic work to provide evidence of competency attainment. You should identify and reference sources of evidence and provide a reflective comment.

Supervisors complete an end of year report based on the BPS competencies.

Trainees are required to achieve a pass level before formally progressing to Year 3 of the programme.

Summative

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

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.