1997 QUT Handbook

tified in DSMIV, the diagnostic and classification manual most
frequently employed in Australia and the United States.
Courses: SS07 Prerequisites: SSB915
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ SSB937 APPLIED COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY
An introduction to cognitive psychology; perception processes
in cognition; memory processes; problem-solving and decisionmaking;
the development of intelligence application of cognitive
psychology. Artificial intelligence, ergonomics and job
design are also included as topics.
Courses: IF52, IF54, IS43, IT20
Prerequisites: SSB912 or 96 credit points of approved study
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
Incompatible with: SSB933
■ SSB939 ALCOHOL & OTHER DRUG STUDIES
A second or third year elective work giving attention to the
following: what is a drug?; an overview of licit and illicit drugs;
states of consciousness; models of use: assessment; and referral
practices, theories and research into dependency, historical
examples of drug use; Australian drug use; social reinforcement
of drug use; gender issues; cultural issues; physiology of
drug use; power issues; crisis intervention; legal issues; mythology
and drug use.
Courses: SS07
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ SSB941 PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT
Principles of psychological assessment and testing in normal
and clinical, child and adult groups, with an emphasis on psychometric
theory. Theory and applications of testing in normal
populations, looking at intelligence testing, educational
and vocational guidance; industrial and organisational assessment;
evaluation of the environment, and computerised assessment
procedures. Assessment in clinical and special normal
populations, including the clinical interview, personality
testing, neuropsychological assessment, and issues concerning
assessment of children, families, and the elderly. Legal
and ethical considerations in psychological and psychometric
assessment.
Courses: SS07
Prerequisites: 36 credit points of second or third year
psychology units
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ SSB942 INDEPENDENT STUDY (PSYCHOLOGY)
This unit gives students the opportunity to work on a program
of study of interest to them, under supervision. Intending students
must be in semester two of year three, have a GPA of 5.0
or above, have a staff member willing to supervise their work
and be able to demonstrate that their project relates to their
proposed program of postgraduate study. Intending students
must also have the permission of the unit coordinator. This unit
will not be approved if other electives are available.
Courses: SS07
Prerequisites: 36 credit points of second or third year
psychology units
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ SSB943 OCCUPATIONAL & VOCATIONAL
PSYCHOLOGY
The well-being and productivity of individuals and groups in
the workforce; the psychological and social effects of unemployment;
career planning and choice; the transition from school
or college to work; adjustment at work; interests, values and
ethics inherent in or related to the different workplaces and professions;
theories and models of career choice and development;
health and adjustment at work; unemployment.
Courses: SS07
Prerequisites: 36 credit points of second or third year
psychology units
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ SSB944 INDUSTRIAL & ORGANISATIONAL
PSYCHOLOGY
This unit examines human factors in job design, occupational
health and safety, work and personal motivation, the assessment
of suitability and/or of performance, and the qualities
needed in career advancement.
Courses: SS07 Prerequisites: SSB915, SSB930
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ SSB946 COUNSELLING THEORY & PRACTICE 2
Counselling issues and approaches in relation to loss and grief,
post-traumatic stress, rehabilitation, drugs and substance
abuse, relationship counselling, separation, sexual abuse, suicide,
cultural differences, psychosis; current approaches to
counselling including process work, brief psychotherapy,
languaging and the construction of problems; group therapy;
group counselling; analytic psychotherapy; ethical, social and
moral issues in counselling.
Courses: SS07 Prerequisites: SSB008
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ SSB948 ADVANCED DEVELOPMENTAL
PSYCHOLOGY
Primary attention is given to research methods in developmental
psychology and major issues in life development will be
covered including infant development, cognitive development,
social development, ageing, parenthood and marriage. Students
will be asked to carry out a major class research project. The
primary aim is to promote the skills necessary to critically evaluate
and carry out solid research in developmental psychology.
Courses: SS07
Prerequisites: 36 credit points of second level psychology units
including SSB005 or SSB913 as one of the units
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ SSB949 INTRODUCTION TO FAMILY THERAPY
Major concepts of systemic theory as applied to families; major
models of family therapy, e.g. structural, strategic, systemic,
solution focused; assessment of family structures and dynamics;
using therapeutic teams, e.g. reflecting team; contemporary
issues in family work, e.g. gender, ethnicity, changing family
foundations; specific ethical issues, e.g. confidentiality,
record keeping, interaction with other systems, referral management;
family dynamics.
Courses: SS07 Prerequisites: SSB008
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ SSB950 RESEARCH DESIGN & DATA ANALYSIS
An overview of the scientific method; the use of the null hypothesis;
Type I and Type II errors; issues of control; underlying
assumptions; basic experimental and non-experimental design;
inferential statistics; t tests; simple regression; one-way
analysis of variance; correlations and correlational analysis,
computer-based statistical analysis; introduction to non-parametric
analyses including Chi-Square and the analysis of ranked
data. Introduction to the use of SPSS in statistical analysis.
Courses: SS07 Prerequisites: SSB930
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ SSB951 ADVANCED STATISTICAL ANALYSIS
A specialist statistical program is taught for the preparation and
support of students using quantitative procedures for research;
procedures are practised on data available in ACSPRI archives
and/or from school and other research projects and will prepare
for the collection of their own database for their major project;
may be offered to postgraduate students enrolled in other QUT
Schools and Faculties.
Courses: SS07 Prerequisites: SSB950
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ SSB953 SPECIAL TOPIC
As determined by the special topic presenter in conjunction
with the Head of School; usually at third year level.
Courses: SS07
Prerequisites: At least 144 credit points at degree level and
specific units as required
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ SSB960 SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY
The unit focuses on a sustained treatment of the concept of
globalisation and the theories that it has provoked in contemporary
sociological debates. This will entail a look at processes
of globalisation in contemporary societies and state-systems.
We shall look, therefore, at the new zonal groupings -the European,
North-East Asian and North American – now in the process
of formation; and the economic, political and cultural trends
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