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Professional training in applied psychology : towards a signature pedagogy for forensic psychology training
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posted on 2012-09-01, 00:00 authored by Andrew Day, Russell TytlerRussell TytlerForensic Psychology is a recognised and important sub-specialty of the Psychology discipline. However, after an expansion in the number of training places that were offered when programmes were first developed, recent years have seen these diminish in response to changes in university policies, resulting from reformulated Federal government funding models. In this article, we argue that it is important for the future of specialist areas of professional psychology to not only articulate the core skills and competencies that are associated with specialist practice but also to develop unique and distinctive approaches to teaching and learning signature pedagogies. Based on the premise that forensic psychological practice is, indeed, a distinctive activity that requires different skills and, importantly, different ways of thinking about the work from other areas of professional psychology, it is suggested that professional training in this area should aim to develop a signature pedagogy which combines methods of teaching and learning that have been developed in legal training programmes with principles of problem-based learning.
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Australian psychologistVolume
47Issue
3Pagination
183 - 189Publisher
John Wiley & SonsLocation
Oxford, EnglandPublisher DOI
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0005-0067eISSN
1742-9544Language
engNotes
Article first published online 8th September 2011Publication classification
C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal; C Journal articleCopyright notice
2011, The Australian Psychological SocietyUsage metrics
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