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2024 unit offering information will be available in November 2023
Unit description
Students explore assessment, differential diagnosis and treatment of a diverse range of clients in various settings as an approaching entry level clinician. Students will apply approaching entry level reasoning to clients with cooccurring conditions to formulate evidenced based assessment and treatment plans. Students will have opportunities to develop their ability to use effective problem solving, counselling techniques and work interprofessionally.
Unit content
- Student wellbeing and placement preparedness
- The role of the speech pathologist when working with individuals with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder.
- Neurodiversity: neuroaffirming assessment and treatment, and other key considerations.
- Working in youth justice
- Neonatal and paediatric palliative care.
- Complex trauma: considerations for speech pathology practice
Learning outcomes
Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.
| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | |
|---|---|
| 1 | Appraise evidence, including research and assessment tools, to thoroughly investigate a client’s condition in order to formulate a diagnosis and develop a person-centred management plan |
| 2 | provide information and demonstrate affective counselling techniques, to be responsive to clients' and significant others' needs and concerns, whilst maintaining professional boundaries/clinician wellbeing |
| 3 | demonstrate effective problem solving, communication and interprofessional practice when providing intervention to clients |
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- Appraise evidence, including research and assessment tools, to thoroughly investigate a client’s condition in order to formulate a diagnosis and develop a person-centred management plan
- provide information and demonstrate affective counselling techniques, to be responsive to clients' and significant others' needs and concerns, whilst maintaining professional boundaries/clinician wellbeing
- demonstrate effective problem solving, communication and interprofessional practice when providing intervention to clients
Teaching and assessment
Fee information
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