Educational and Developmental Psychologist Interventions

Overview

This unit prepares students to implement and evaluate evidence-based individual and group educational and developmental psychologist interventions to support pre-school, primary, secondary, and tertiary students with a range of psychological, learning, social-emotional, and mental health issues. Learning theories and Positive Behaviour Support strategies will be taught, and programs to support students with a range of learning disorders, disabilities, and school engagement needs will be a feature of this unit. Furthermore, students will gain skills in applying positive psychology approaches to individual, whole-school, and system-wide interventions to improve multi-level wellbeing and behaviour, and learn how to deliver culturally safe interventions and work effectively with multidisciplinary teams both within and outside the school context.

Unit learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

1. Implement individual, group, and whole-school interventions to support the psychological, learning, behavioural, and wellbeing needs of students in educational and developmental psychology settings
2. Design evidence-based and anti-oppressive strategies to support the educational and developmental outcomes of students with a range of learning disorders, disabilities, and school engagement needs.
3. Apply positive psychology approaches to individual, whole school and system-wide interventions
4. Evaluate intervention effectiveness using single-case and multiple-case design methods
5. Design and implement interventions that are culturally safe and responsive to the needs and socio-ecological contexts of students, schools, families, and communities

Teaching methods

Hawthorn Online

Assessment

Content

• Theoretical underpinnings of psychological interventions with children, adolescents, and adults
• Key theories of learning
• Evidence based interventions for children, adolescents, and adults with psychological, behavioural, social, emotional, and mental health issues 
• Designing and implementing individual, group, and whole-school interventions
• Positive Behaviour Support principles and implementation
• Play therapy principles
• Positive psychology strategies to support individual, whole school, and system-wide wellbeing
• Build the capacity of teachers to support students to achieve improved educational and wellbeing outcomes
• Culturally safe and anti-oppressive interventions for children, adolescents, and adults from diverse cultural, ethnic, racial, and linguistic backgrounds
• Psychoeducational training (group or individual)
• Graduate Attribute 1 (Communication 1 - Verbal Communication)
• Graduate Attribute 2 (Communication 2 - Communicating using different media)
• Graduate Attribute 5 (Digital Literacies 1 - Information literacy)