School Of PsychologyPsychological Interventions 1Western Sydney University Unit Code: B7637.1
Discipline: PSYCHOLOGY
Student Contribution Band: 1
Level: 7
Credit Points: 10
About this Unit
Psychology is a science. Seeking to help those in need, clinical psychology draws its strength and uniqueness from the ethic of scientific validation - clinical psychologists focus on what works. They bear a fundamental ethical responsibility to use, where possible interventions that work, and to subject any intervention used to scientific scrutiny. (Chambles et.al., 1996:10). Rather than encouraging an ideological commitment to a particular psychotherapeutic model, this unit acquaints students with the use of experimental and clinical psychological literature to develop a critical empiricist perspective on the use of therapeutic interventions.