Required courses (16) 192 units

PSY700 Managing Research
PSY701 Advanced and Transcultural Counselling
PSY702 Advanced Psychological Assessment and Reporting
PSY703 Clinical Psychological Practice 1
PSY704 Practicum Placement 1
PSY705 Advanced Research Design and Methods
PSY706 Clinical Psychological Practice 2
PSY707 Practicum Placement 2
PSY750 Research Project 1
PSY751 Ethical Professional Practice of Psychology
PSY752 Clinical Psychological Practice 3
PSY753 Practicum Placement 3
PSY754 Research Project 2
PSY755 Clinical Health Psychology and Psychopharmacology
PSY756 Research Project 3
PSY757 Research Project 4

Note: Program structures are subject to change. Not all UniSC courses are available on every UniSC campus.

In order to graduate you must:

• Successfully complete 192 units as outlined in the Program Structure

Program notes

• For Thompson Institute (TI) students some courses in this program will be taught at the Sunshine Coast campus
• Completing this program within the specified (full-time) duration is based on studying 48 unit points per semester (normally 4 courses) and following the recommended study sequence
• The unit value of all courses is 12 units unless otherwise specified  
• It is each students responsibility to enrol correctly according to your course requisites, program rules and requirements and be aware of the academic calendar dates
• This program consists of the three major required components, as follows:
  • 50 percent coursework (8 courses)
  • 25 percent research project and thesis (4 courses), and
  • 25 percent Practicum placements (4 courses)
• Only a full-time study option is available to international students on a Student visa
• Refer to the Managing your progression page for help in understanding your program structure, reviewing your progress and planning remaining courses.

WIL notes

• It is a Queensland Government requirement that students undertaking a placement within a clinical setting are fit tested annually for an approved respirator. Clinical settings include hospitals, residential aged care facilities, residential disability care facilities, prison health services, youth detention health services, community health care settings, and vaccination clinics). If the Fit Testing requirement applies to placement activity within your Program it will appear in your mandatory checks on Sonia Online. In accordance with Australian Standards, you must be clean shaven for your fit test. Facial hair that lies along the sealing surface of a tight-fitting respirator prevents an effective seal. Therefore, it is a requirement that there is no hair growth between the skin and the facepiece sealing surface in order to achieve a fit. At this stage, there is no exemption in Queensland to this requirement for religious or other reasons and UniSC is unable to waive this requirement.
• Students will undertake a minimum of 1,000 hours of practicum placement in total across the 4 practicum placement courses

• It is no longer a requirement that students in Master of Psychology (Clinical) are fully vaccinated against COVID-19.

  Please note that some placement host organisations have chosen to continue requiring COVID-19 vaccination. If you are not fully vaccinated, it is important to know that placement opportunities in your program may be limited and may result in a delay to your placement.

  UniSC still strongly recommends that all students undertaking placement are fully vaccinated and provide evidence of this vaccination status to the University.

• Refer to Master of Psychology (Clinical) - Placements