NPE Peer Group on Zoom August 2024

Thinking about sitting the NPE but don’t know where to start? Our NPE groups runs over 10 weeks and includes a comprehensive content to support your NPE preparation. Here’s what’s included:

• Welcome Recording: Orient yourself to the NPE and group.

• NPE Resource Finder: Start your journey with a curated reading list.

• Live Group Discussions: 12 hours of interactive sessions with registered psychologists over 10 weeks (recordings available).

• Assessments recordings: Key information on assessments, including:

  • 6 main assessments (2-hour recording)

  • 23 additional assessments (40-minute recording)

• Intervention Overview: Crucial information on interventions, including:

  • Intervention/talk therapy (3-hour recording)

  • Psychopharmacology (50 minute recording)

• Kahoot Quiz: Test your knowledge with 291 questions and a detailed debrief recording.

• NPE Readiness Checklist: Ensure you're fully prepared.

• FREE INCLUSION: AMAZING NEW NPE AI tool - Use for 6 months from date of purcahse 2024 (unless discontinued by ChatGPT). See a demo of the tool here

1. We have created a new tool to assist with your NPE preparation which uses AI. While best endeavours have been made for both accuracy and functionality, this product is subject to change and subject to ChatGPT control which may lead to the use of this tool discontinuing (due to factors outside of our control). Best efforts will be made to continue this product’s availability for 6 months. Please note: this component has no additional financial cost to the purchase, therefore any discontinuation or ability to use this tool will not generate a refund. Please also note that the quality of the tool can be excellent, it can also be variable and poor and therefore requires user discretion. At the current time (June 2024) this tool requires a paid ChatGPT plus subscription.  This cost may be $20USD or above per month as a subscription payable to ChatGPT which may change over time. As a term of use, purchasers are forbidden from sharing this tool. Please note that by purchasing you agree to our AI standards:

   https://psychologysquared.com.au/ai-standards

Commencing Tue 6 August 2024, running weekly at 6:30pm (AEDT) this peer-facilitated group discussion aims to help those candidates preparing to sit the NPE exam with three mentors, Clare, Jess and Amanda! This program offers candidates an opportunity to get prepared to sit the exam in a facilitated, yet interactive and collaborative group.

This program runs over 10 weeks. We have eight 1-hour weekly sessions discussing the domains, and 2 x 2 hour (total of four hours) of scenario discussion sessions with novel exam-style vignettes.

Participants will also be provided with access to the group’s recordings as well as a host of additional digital resources and all the available quizzes.

Week 1: Introductory Session

A 1-hour session covering the following topics:

·         What you need to know about the NPE

·         How to prepare for the exam

·         Required knowledge

·         Study Scheduling

·         Self-care

·         FAQ’s

Week 2: Ethics 1

A 1-hour session covering the following topics:

·         Ethical requirements for psychologists

·         Competence, confidentiality and informed consent

·         Managing professional boundaries

·         Multiple/dual relationships

·         Boundary crossings and violations

·         Power imbalances

·         Non-exploitation of a client

·         Non-consenting clients

Week 3: Ethics 2

A 1-hour session covering the following topics:

·         Clients who cannot give consent

·         Client diversity

·         Competence within diverse groups

·         Clients who pose a risk to themselves or others

·         Ethical issues in research

·         Ethics of assessment and intervention

·         Privacy legislation, records, delegation, advertising and finances

Week 4 : Assessment 1

A 1-hour session covering the following topics:

Assessment

·         Principles of assessment

·         Test selection and usage

Week 5: Assessment 2

A 1-hour session covering the following topics:

·         Identifying and diagnosing psychological disorder

Week 6: Scenario discussion session 1

·         A 2-hour discussion session consisting of novel scenarios to be discussed as a group

·         Participants are encouraged to bring their own ethical dilemmas or scenarios to discuss in the session

Week 7 & Week 8: Intervention 1 & 2

A 1-hour session covering the following topics:

·         Counselling skills

·         Theories and models of treatment

o   cognitive and behavioural

o   psychodynamic and interpersonal

o   family systems, and

o   humanistic, narrative and solution-focussed.

Week 9: Communication

A 1-hour session covering the following topics:

·         Record keeping

·         Knowledge of referral processes

·         Knowledge of and sensitivity of communication issues relevant to ATSI people and diverse groups

Week 10: Scenario discussion session 2

·         A 2-hour discussion session consisting of novel scenarios to be discussed as a group

·         Participants are encouraged to bring their own ethical dilemmas or scenarios to discuss in the session

Dates

Sessions will be held every Tuesday evening. Sessions will be held via Zoom and recordings are provided. Link will be emailed to you upon purchase or at least a few days prior to the event starting.

Time

Tuesdays 6:30PM, weekly (Syd/Melb time).

 Not board-approved supervision.

Not an NPE coaching or a “course” . This is an organised group, peer lead, open discussion running through the exam curriculum and AHPRA materials and exam readings.

*Please note that the quiz difficulty of these questions may be considerable as low to medium.  Performance has been found to vary from 70-85% as average.  We are limited by character count in Kahoot! but look forward to developing more challenging questions soon

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