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Learning and Reflective Journal 1 LEARNING POINTS: Week 2: Registration and Professional Associations - Chris Willcox Lecture: 

Unlike the term counsellor, the term psychologist is protected under national law (this law is state based). The Areas of Practices Endorsement (AoPE) are also protected by national law.

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The Health Care Complaints Commission (HCCC) is independent and was established after the Chelmsford inquiry. NSW is co-regulatory, so complaints are dealt with by the relevant professional counsel and the HCCC.

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Psychologists must either be registered or provisionally registered while doing postgraduate training.

Week 3: Generalists Lecture: 

Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs need to be considered in every case that is presented.

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Developing a broad range of skills in the field gives you an advantage when seeking employment and can unpredictably assist with roles.

Tutorial: 

There are five normative ethical principles.

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The APS Code of Ethics has three general principles: respect, propriety and integrity.

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This code needs to be followed as close as possible by all practising psychologist in order to achieve the best results and ensure safety for the client and psychologist.

Week 4: Counselling Psychology Lecture: 

Counselling Psychologists (CP) can have specialty areas such as couples counselling, they instil evidence-based practice to ensure the best results for each client whilst still adapting it to suit individual needs.

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CP’s are registered Psychologists and are not unqualified counsellors.

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The field is based on interactions and relation ships as well as mindset and behavioural patterns.

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This type of psychology came about after the World War to support soldiers who experienced mental health issues.

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Your own values need to come into alignment with the code of ethics when in your workspace.

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On certain occasions one must determine which ethical principle is more important to maintain client safety.

Week 5: Clinical Psychology Lecture: 

Clinical Psychologists focus on mentail health and assisting clients with finding happiness and health.

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This is the psychologist people typically see.

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Listening skills need to be high as it helps create the trusted bond between you and a client.

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These skills will need to be worked upon over the following years.

REFLECTION: Through the lectures we learnt about the pathways to become a psychologist and the different types of psychologists you can become. This really interested me as I had only heard of clinical psychology. I could see new doors appearing and this excited me. Have limitless career options and getting to learn a bit about them all has definitely given me a lot to think about. Certain psychology jobs that have more action appealed to me, as opposed to the everyday office jobs. The Juvenile Detention roles and Equestrian Psychologist role especially interested me as I felt each day would bring something different and the environments would be more active or more challenging. Our Laboratories have given me a chance to get hands on experience with the skill sets required by a psychologist. When doing the listening practise, I had thought I wouldn’t go well yet surprised myself by doing great. These laboratories remind me why I have chosen this degree with the skills and the social interaction stimulating my love for people and interest in them. Some lectures are less interesting to me as it isn’t what I would like to move into. An example of this is the counselling psychology. As much as I love social interaction, I cant see myself wanting to assess the interaction of other people. It can be hard to keep up with the lecturers, so I value the PowerPoints being posted on blackboard. Overall, I have loved the professional people who have come in to share information on their work. The passion they have for the work is very clear and this only makes the students look forward to when they too can become a psychologist.

A downside to the degree is that this is only the start so learning about the pathways, while helpful, was stressful as I realised how long I am required to study at the university. I would love to just skip straight into the job. This course itself is very interesting and I am excited to see what other career options there are and what other skills I can learn to better prepare myself for the following years and my future employment....