Clinical Psychology Professional Doctorate

In this module you will undertake a piece of real world audit and evaluation within the service with which you have an employment (or honorary employment) contract. You will work collaboratively with your training colleagues and service heads to produce a comprehensive and meaningful service audit and or evaluation. You will learn about a range of leadership styles and be able to apply them to your own practice. You will be required to take on a leadership role in relation to at least one clear element of a service evaluation. To help you to identify areas of good practice you will participate in a series of workshops where clinical psychologists will share areas of good (and challenging) practice within the region.

In this module you will learn about the regulatory frameworks and professional guidance that informs the work of clinical psychologists. You will identify how such guidance is applied in clinical settings and take a critical approach to understanding such frameworks. You will consider issues that impact upon your professional development and learn how to integrate safe and ethical principles of working into your practice. You will be required to reflect on your practice. You will also learn about group processes and team working and consider ways to communicate within teams. To help support your reflection and application of these things you will be required to engage in group working and problem based learning tasks.

This module will require you to gain an introductory and basic level understanding of the nine overarching competencies, as specified by the Committee for Training in Clinical Psychology, through engagement in clinical practice placements across the year. The nine competencies are Generalisable meta-competencies-Psychological Assessment Psychological Formulation-Psychological Intervention-Evaluation-Research-Personal and Professional Skills and Values-Communication and Teaching Organisational and Systemic Influence and Leadership

This module will examine the philosophical underpinnings of research approaches and the challenges of conducting ethically sound and practically relevant research by psychologists within clinical contexts under experimental and non-experimental conditions. The module will introduce the critical appraisal of evidence, with reference to standardised appraisal tools such as CASP and PRISM.

In this module you will undertake a single case design based on methods developed in psychological and behavioural research. The module will introduce you to a range of complex models of formulation and intervention for people with complex needs who are hard to reach through traditional services. You will learn how to apply single case methodology collaboratively and systematically with people to ensure that your interventions are ethically sound and that you can take responsive action to ensure that you are not placing people at risk of further harm. Within clinical workshops trainees will use generic psychological meta-competences to apply psychological methods to complex casework. You will learn how write up n=1 designs and how to use single case methodology in practice as a method of ensuring that people receive high quality clinical services, based on their individual needs.

In this module you will be taught about at least two psychological models, looking specifically at the psychological processes present in therapy. You will learn about assessment across a range of specialist services, neuropsychological, learning disability and older adults. Specialist lecturers will demonstrate ways that they go on to formulate clinical problems and work collaboratively with service users to develop psychological interventions.

This module will require you to gain an intermediate-level acquisition of the nine overarching competencies, as specified by the Committee for Training in Clinical Psychology, through engagement in clinical practice placements across the year. The nine competencies are Generalisable meta competencies Psychological Assessment Psychological Formulation Psychological Intervention Evaluation Research Personal and Professional Skills and Values-Communication and Teaching Organisational and Systemic Influence and Leadership

Teaching includes a mix of lectures, workshops and computer laboratory sessions. Research topics, process, governance, ethics, and advanced statistical and qualitative methods and techniques will be explained, discussed and explored/practised. Research approaches included will be questionnaire design and analysis, multiple regression, analysis of variance, single n designs, narrative or discourse analysis, IPA and grounded theory. Advanced research governance will be covered by means of mandatory Good Clinical Practice training (certificated).There will be focused teaching around conducting a systematic literature search and conducting/ writing a literature review.

This module will require you to gain an enhanced-level acquisition of the nine overarching competencies, as specified by the Committee for Training in Clinical Psychology, through engagement in clinical practice placements across the year. The nine competencies are Generalisable meta-competencies-Psychological Assessment-Psychological Formulation-Psychological Intervention-Evaluation-Research-Personal and Professional Skills and Values-Communication and Teaching-Organisational and Systemic Influence and Leadership

This module focuses on the practical process of conducting research within the NHS, social care and related clinical settings, with a particular focus on relevance and application to clinical psychology. Dedicated workshops are held on writing the research report to the standard required for submission to a peer reviewed journal; writing an executive summary/practice report, presenting material orally, and on preparing material for publication. Attention will also be given to the use of research supervision and to the oral defence of the thesis.