Details for Professional Accountability

This subject will provide classroom support for you while on supervised field placement.  It provides both individual and group supervision, and the opportunity to reflect on your cases in other subjects in the course.  You will also gain a broader understanding of presenting problems, diagnoses, assessment and management through case conferences involving an approved mix of peer review, professional development and supervisors. This subject has been designed to comply with PACFA training requirement: Students must have com-pleted a course of which at least 100 hours is experiential. Experiential activities refer to clinical training methods, such as modelling by clinicians, counsellor-client practice, clinical placements, role-plays, and concrete and specific feedback.

Awards offering Professional Accountability

This unit is offered as a part of the following awards:

• Graduate Certificate in Arts
• Graduate Certificate in Wellbeing Studies
• Graduate Diploma in Arts
• Graduate Diploma of Applied Social Science
• Graduate Diploma of Leadership
• Master of Arts
• Master of Leadership

Unit Content

Outcomes

1. Critically analyse professional frameworks and guidelines of professional practice;
2. Critically reflect on professional and/or pastoral practice; including individual and group processes;
3. Consider and integrate professional feedback into ongoing professional development in a group supervision environment;
4. Critically analyse issues and challenges in professional practice, with consideration given to industry standards and a Christian worldview.

Subject Content

• Placement Contexts 
• Supervision Professional Issues
• Contextualisation 
• Mentoring 
• Models of Critical Reflection 
• Professionalism  
• Linking Placement and Learning 
• Problem-Solving 
• Application of Contextualisation 
• Student Reports 
• Student Reports 
• Assessment and Evaluation 
• Ethical and Legal Issues 
• Challenging Issues Presentations 

This course may be offered in the following formats

• Onsite (face-to-face)
• Online (e-Learning)
• Intensives

Please consult your course prospectus or enquire about how and when this course will be offered next at Alphacrucis University College.

Assessment Methods

• Work Context Paper and Presentation (25%)
• Case Reports and Presentations (2 x 25%)
• Presentation (25%)

Prescribed Text

All required readings will be provided