2025- 5+1 Registration Program Professional Development
Core Modules
All workshops run Saturday 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Modules open on Moodle 1st Monday of the month and close 6 weeks later.
Workshop | Facilitator | Time | Date |
Boost your Risk Management Skills | Lyn O’Grady | 10:00 AM - 01:00 PM | 18th January 2025 |
Navigating Tough Moments in Therapy | John Littleton | 10:00 AM - 01:00 PM | 15th February 2025 |
Interpersonal Psychotherapy | Sharon Van Doorene | 10:00 AM - 01:00 PM | 15th March 2025 |
Advanced Psychological Assessment | Amie Frewen | 10:00 AM - 01:00 PM | 12th April 2025 |
Ethics for Independent Psychologist | Lil Vrklevski | 10:00 AM - 01:00 PM | 17th May 2025 |
How to treat OCD | Mathew Pfeiffer | 10:00 AM - 01:00 PM | 21st June 2025 |
Grief and Loss | Pravania Sharma | 10:00 AM - 01:00 PM | 19th July 2025 |
Psychologists in Court | Amanda White | 10:00 AM - 01:00 PM | 16th August 2025 |
Delivering ACT | Sharon Van Doorene | 10:00 AM - 01:00 PM | 20th September 2025 |
Advanced Therapy and treatment Skills | TBD | 10:00 AM - 01:00 PM | 18th October 2025 |
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy | Li Lian Koh | 10:00 AM - 01:00 PM | 15th November 2025 |
Practice Essentials | TBD | 10:00 AM - 01:00 PM | 13th December 2025 |
If you are from Program 4+2 and wish to attend any Professional Development session please click here to request for access.
Case Reports Module
This module runs three times a year and is open to all interns, access to the module resources is available all year round and you are welcome to attend multiple times.
The case report workshop runs from 10am – 5pm.
| Workshop | Facilitator | Time | Date |
| Writing Case Reports | Emily Constantine | 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM | 22nd February 2025 |
| Writing Case Reports | Emily Constantine | 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM | 22nd June 2025 |
| Writing Case Reports | Emily Constantine | 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM | 29th November 2025 |
National Psychology Exam Preparation Module
This module is open throughout the year and contains over 50 hours of review notes and activities. In the month prior to each AHPRA exam black, 3 x 2-hour study groups will run. These can be booked into via the module, which can be accessed from the link below:
Preparing for the National Psychology Exam
Additional Professional Development
Open all year round
These self-directed learning activities can be accessed on Moodle all year round and are located here College of Professional Psychology: All Programs
| Module | Program |
| Observation and Diagnosis | Four psychiatric training video vignettes that allow you to hone your observation and diagnostic skills. |
| Treatment Planning | Practice your treatment planning skills with two case vignettes, "Richard" and "Susan". |
Ethical Communication in a digital world | Explore the unique features and challenges of communicating as a psychologist in an online, digital age. |
Psychoeducation: How to make it meaningful | Enhance your delivery of psychoeducation to clients who present with mental health conditions. |
Understanding Mindfulness | Select and apply mindfulness-based therapies. |
| Suicide Prevention 101 | A comprehensive, first stop toolkit to assist you in the important work of suicide prevention. |
| Life Transitions | Models to assist in understanding expected and unexpected life transitions, ways these may impact clients, and approached to working with clients. |
Should you have any questions of clarifications please contact PALS at pals@copp.edu.au.