1 Semester

Hawthorn

Credit Points: 12.5 Credit Points

Related Course/s:

Aims & Objectives:

An understanding of biopsychosocial stress-health processes is a core knowledge area, and the management of stress is a core skill, fundamental to the professional practice of health psychology. This internal double placement at the Swinburne Psychology Clinic provides training in the use of psychophysiological stress monitoring equipment, and experience in the application of biofeedback and cognitive-behavioural stress management techniques to assess, prevent and treat clients' stress-related health problems.

Teaching Methods:

Workshops and Supervision Sessions

Assessment:

Final Supervisor's Report

Generic Skills Outcomes:

The graduate attributes which relate to this unit of study help to produce graduates who:

• Are capable in their chosen professional areas.
• Operate effectively in work and community situations.
• Are adaptable and manage change.
• Are aware of environments.
• Are entrepreneurial.

Students are expected to develop the following generic skills:

• Psychological assessment and intervention strategies for group programs and individual clients.

Content:

Placement A2 provides further supervised training in the techniques and applications of biofeedback and stress management. Client services are provided at the Swinburne Psychology Clinic, where students will see individual clients and run group programs.

Reading Materials:

Schwartz, MS, Biofeedback: A Practitioner's Guide, Guilford, NY, 1995.
Lehrer, PM & Woolfolk, RL, Principles and Practice of Stress Management, 2nd edn, Guilford, NY, 1993.