HS763-8-FY-CO:
Clinical Research 1
2024/25
Health and Social Care (School of)
Colchester Campus
Full Year
Postgraduate: Level 8
Current
Monday 30 September 2024
Friday 29 August 2025
60
19 March 2024
Requisites for this module
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CER C89F24 Applied Psychology,
DIP C89F24 Applied Psychology,
MSD C89F24 Applied Psychology,
DOCTC84036 Clinical Psychology (D Clin Psych)
This module runs in Year 1 of the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology and is aimed at providing trainees with additional skills and knowledge relevant for conducting research in the field of clinical psychology and to meet the requirements of the DClinPsych.
The aims of this module are:
- To develop the knowledge and understanding of a range of research designs suitable for clinical research in health, social care and community settings.
- To develop the ability to formulate a research problem linked to clinical theory into a clear research question that can be addressed using an appropriate research design.
- To develop an awareness and understanding of the professional, ethical, organisational and legal frameworks for conducting clinical research.
- To develop the ability to construct a clear research proposal comprising a clear research question linking to psychological theory, an appropriate design, reliable data collection tools and consideration of ethical issues
- To develop values and attitudes contributing to the critical and reflective application of research tools in clinical contexts with due consideration of issues relating to cultural diversity, other individual differences and social inequalities.
- To develop skills in inter-professional collaboration and planning in engaging services and professionals to plan access to research populations.
By the end of this module, trainees will be expected to :
- Be competent in conducting logical and systematic searches of the literature, identifying the most relevant literature using Boolean operators and limits and running searches across different databases, downloading citations and obtaining full texts where available.
- Possess a detailed knowledge of paradigms and methodologies underpinning case series designs and how these differ/fit with standard experimental designs in health research.
- Be able to design and evaluate the quality of case series research studies.
- Be able to think critically and discuss the theoretical and epistemological foundations of case series design and related forms of research.
- Be able to draw on existing research networks and support systems in order to progress a research idea.
- Have an advanced understanding of issues relating to the psychometric properties of measures and how they are tested statistically.
- Have a thorough understanding of the principles of validity and reliability in qualitative research and how these are ensured in the research process and tested afterwards.
- Have advanced skills, values, knowledge and understanding relating to ethical practice in research.
- Be familiar with the IRAS application process and how it relates to research governance approval.
The Clinical Research module ensures that trainees develop a broad understanding of topics relevant to conducting research within clinical psychology using both quantitative and qualitative methods.
The module will be delivered via:
- Trainee led sessions in which the allocated trainees: summarize the content of the reading material in the form of a 5-10 minute presentation and lead a critical discussion of the material
- Lectures with compulsory reading required before the session
- Thesis workshops
This module does not appear to have a published bibliography for this year.
Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
| Coursework / exam |
Description |
Deadline |
Coursework weighting |
| Coursework |
Literature Review |
|
100% |
Exam format definitions
- Remote, open book: Your exam will take place remotely via an online learning platform. You may refer to any physical or electronic materials during the exam.
- In-person, open book: Your exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer to any physical materials such as paper study notes or a textbook during the exam. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, open book (restricted): The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer only to specific physical materials such as a named textbook during the exam. Permitted materials will be specified by your department. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, closed book: The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may not refer to any physical materials or electronic devices during the exam. There may be times when a paper dictionary,
for example, may be permitted in an otherwise closed book exam. Any exceptions will be specified by your department.
Your department will provide further guidance before your exams.
Overall assessment
Reassessment
Module supervisor and teaching staff
Prof Susan McPherson, email: smcpher@essex.ac.uk.
Dr Susan McPherson, Dr John Day, Dr Antonella Trotta, Dr Danny Taggart
E: dcpadmin@essex.ac.uk
No
No
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Dr Magdalena Marczak
Coventry University
Lecturer in Clinical Psychology
Available via Moodle
Of 57 hours, 0 (0%) hours available to students:
0 hours not recorded due to service coverage or fault;
57 hours not recorded due to opt-out by lecturer(s), module, or event type.
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