Unit Outline

This unit considers common professional and ethical issues in psychological practice. Students are introduced to key ethical codes, guidelines, standards and legislation relevant to psychology practice. Ethical decision-making models will be applied to real-world case examples to assist students in identifying ethical and professional issues, responsibilities and obligations.

Intended Learning Outcomes

As per the Assessment and Results Policy 1.3, your results will reflect your achievement against specified learning outcomes.

On completion of this unit, you will be able to:


1.	Evaluate and communicate ethical and professional issues arising in psychological practice in written and oral form.
2.	Apply existing ethical codes, guidelines, and standards to respond to common ethical and professional issues that arise in psychological practice.
3.	Demonstrate non-maleficence, beneficence and respect in professional psychological practice.

Requisites


REQUISITE TYPE	REQUISITES
Anti-requisite (mutual excl)	KHA734

Alterations as a result of student feedback

No alterations have been made to this unit because of positive student feedback.

How will I be Assessed?

For more detailed assessment information please see MyLO.

Assessment schedule


ASSESSMENT TASK #	ASSESSMENT TASK NAME	DATE DUE	WEIGHT	LINKS TO INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOMES
Assessment Task 1:	OSCE	See the MyLO site for the due date	50 %	LO1, LO2, LO3
Assessment Task 2:	Assignment	Week 7	50 %	LO1, LO2, LO3

Assessment details

Assessment Task 1: OSCE

Task Description:

For the PSY702 Ethics and Professional Psychology Practice 1 OSCE, students will be required to demonstrate competency in identifying and responding to an ethical dilemma.
Students must successfully pass the OSCE for PSY702 to achieve an overall passing grade on this examination and this unit. If students do not demonstrate competency on this OSCE station, they will be provided remedial feedback and will be required to repeat this OSCE at a date determined by the School of Psychological Sciences. If after a second attempt, this student is unable to demonstrate competency, they will be required to repeat this unit.
All students will be required to sign a statutory declaration stating they will not disclose the contents of the OSCE to anyone.

Task Length:

15 minutes

Due Date:

See the MyLO site for the due date

Weight:

50 %

CRITERION #

CRITERION

MEASURES INTENDED

LEARNING OUTCOME(S)


1	Identification of the ethical and professional issues presented by the dilemma.	LO1
2	Analysis of how the issues are of concern with reference to the APS Code of Ethics and relevant ethical guidelines and legislation.	LO2
3	Application of an ethical decision-making model to synthesise the information and provide a response to the ethical and professional dilemmas in each scenario.	LO3

Assessment Task 2: Assignment

Task Description:

Use the Australian Psychological Society’s ethical decision-making model to determine a course of action in response to common ethical and professional dilemmas encountered in psychological practice. Dilemmas will also consider common issues faced by psychologists working in multidisciplinary teams.

Students are required to achieve a passing grade on all assessments in order to successfully pass this unit.

Task Length:

2000 words

Due Date:

Week 7

Weight:

50 %

CRITERION #

CRITERION

MEASURES INTENDED

LEARNING OUTCOME(S)

How your final result is determined

To pass this unit, you need to demonstrate your attainment of each of the Intended Learning Outcomes.

Your grade will be determined in the following way:

All assessments within the Postgraduate Professional Training Programs at the University of Tasmania adhere to an ungraded pass profile. Similarly, your academic transcript will use this same grading system.

This means all assessable work will be graded as either UP (ungraded pass), or NN (fail grade), which indicates you need to continue towards developing that competency. You are required to achieve a UP on all assessment pieces in order to successfully pass a unit of study – be that coursework, placement, or thesis.

A UP grade equates to achievement of 70% or higher on a given task, and this benchmark must be achieved to be awarded a UP. These criteria are consistent with both the required performance on the National Psychology Exam, as well as within the School of Psychological Sciences, College of Health and Medicine, University of Tasmania.

Marks are reviewed by the Unit Coordinator and Psychology’s Assessment Committee and may be adjusted to ensure fairness, consistency and appropriateness before the final marks and grades are assigned in accordance with University policy. Psychology’s grades and marks are also reviewed by the Faculty Assessors’ Committee.

Note: In order to obtain a full passing grade in this unit, students are expected to submit and achieve a UP grade on all assessable work.

Submission of assignments

Where practicable, assignments should be submitted to an assignment submission folder in MYLO. You must submit assignments by the due date or receive a penalty (unless an extension of time has been approved by the Unit Coordinator). Students submitting any assignment in hard copy, or because of a practicum finalisation, must attach a student cover sheet and signed declaration for the submission to be accepted for marking.

Requests for extensions

If you are unable to submit an assessment task by the due date, you should apply for an extension.

A request for an extension should first be discussed with your Unit Coordinator or teaching support team where possible. A request for an extension must be submitted by the assessment due date, except where you can provide evidence it was not possible to do so. Typically, an application for an extension will be supported by documentary evidence: however, where it is not possible for you to provide evidence please contact your Unit Coordinator.

The Unit Coordinator must notify you of the outcome of an extension request within 3 working days of receiving the request.

Late penalties

Assignments submitted after the deadline will receive a late penalty of 5% of the original available mark for each calendar day (or part day) that the assignment is late. Late submissions will not be accepted more than 10 calendar days after the due date, or after assignments have been returned to other students on a scheduled date, whichever occurs first. Further information on Late Penalties can be found on the Assessments and Results Procedure.

Review of results and appeals

You are entitled to ask for a review of the marking and grading of your assessment task if there is an irregularity in the marking standards or an error in the process for determining the outcome of an assessment. Details on how to request a review of a mark for an assignment are outlined in the Review and Appeal of Academic Decisions Procedure.