DECPsy Curriculum Outlines
Years 1-3
Year 1 Outline
Researc
ch
Plac
cement
(44 d
days – 1
day a week)
Academic
( day bloc
(4
cks)
Autumn
Spring
Summer
PBL 1: Educational Psychology:
Practice and Context
PBL 2: Raising Achievement:
Whole School and
Community Focus
PBL 3: Literacy Difficulties and
Bilingualism in the
Primary School
PBL 4: Reducing Social
Exclusion
PBL 5: Secondary Social Emotional
and Behavioural Difficulties
(SEBD)
PBL 6: Promoting Inclusion: SEN and
Disability Focus
PBL 7: Children in Early Years Settings:
Language and Behaviour issues
PBL 8: Profound and Multiple Learning
Difficulties (PMLD): Challenging
Behaviour - School and Family
PBL 9: Neuropsychology and
Autistic Spectrum
Disorders
PBL 10: Individual Interventions
W k h
Workshops
& seminars
i
W k h
Workshops
& Seminars
S i
PD tutorials
Formal Progress Review
meetings
PD tutorials
Formal Progress Review meetings
Exam 1
E
Submit CS2 Evidence Based
Practice Report
Submit CS1 Problem Analysis
LA Observations and visits
Primary School Placement
English as an Additional
Language (EAL) assignment
CAMHS and Social Services meetings
Shadowing Educational Psychologists
Multi-Professional Working interviews
Secondary School Placement
Research Methods Workshops
Research Methods Workshops
Thesis consultation sessions
Conducting systematic literature review Research thesis tutorials
workshops
Submit thesis proposal
Conducting a meta analysis workshop
Workshops & seminars
PD tutorials
t t i l
Formal Progress Review
meetings at UCL (Supervisors
Training Day)
Early Years Placement
Visits to Special Provision
Submit Y1 Portfolio
Year 2 Outline
Placem
ment
(130 day
ys – 3
days a w
week)
Academic
c (10 x 3 da
ay
UCL b
blocks)
Autumn
PBL 11: Dyslexia and ADHD
PBL 12: Family/Community
Interventions
Workshops & seminars
PD tutorials
CBT Supervision
Peer supervision
PBL 13: Tribunal, Parent Partnership and
LA Provision
PBL 14: Children & Young People in
Public Care
PBL 15: Multi-agency Organisational
Development Project: Promoting
Psychological Well-being
Well being
Workshops & Seminars
PD tutorials
CBT Supervision
Peer supervision
Placement tasks – compiling Placement tasks – compiling portfolio
portfolio
Formal Progress Review meetings at
UCL
Formal Progress Review
meeting
g (at
( Placement
Supervisors’
p
Training
g Day
y
Service)
Supervisors’ Training Day
Research thesis tutorials and
panel presentations
Rese
earch
Spring
First submission of Thesis
Review Paper
Ethics Application
submission
Research thesis tutorials and panel
presentations
Meta-analysis surgery session
Submission of Methods section of
empirical paper
Summer
PBL 16: Educational Psychology:
Professional & Personal
Review
Workshops & seminars
PD tutorials
Peer supervision
VIG Training
Exam 2
Submit CS3 (CBT Intervention)
Placement tasks – compiling
portfolio
Formal Progress Review meetings at
UCL
Supervisors’ Training Day
Submit Y2 Portfolio
Research thesis tutorials and panel
presentations
Advanced research methods
workshop
Th i consultation
Thesis
lt ti
sessions
i
Submit Service Related Research
Report
Year 3 Outline
Rese
earch
Placem
ment
(130 da
ays – 3
days a week)
Academic (6 x 3 day
y
UCL blocks)
Autumn
PBL trigger sessions
PBL case presentations
Workshops/ Master classes/
Innovative practice sessions
PD tutorials
Peer supervision
Spring
PBL case presentations
Workshops/ Masterclasses/
Innovative practice sessions
PD tutorials
Peer supervision
VIG supervision
Summer
Workshops/ Masterclasses/
Innovative practice sessions
PD tutorials (Case Study 4
feedback, placement portfolios)
VIG supervision
Submit Case Study 4
Placement tasks - compiling
portfolio
Placement tasks – compiling
portfolio
Formal Progress Review meetings
by teleconference
Formal Progress Review meetings
by teleconference
Placement tasks – compiling
portfolio
Formal Progress Reviews at UCL
Supervisors Training Day
Submit Y3 Portfolio
Research thesis tutorials (focus on
empirical paper)
Group research thesis tutorials
(focus on the Critical Appraisal
section)
Submit draft empirical paper (mid
November)
Thesis tutorials
Submit first complete draft of
thesis
Submit thesis for examination
(early May)
Thesis vivas