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Examples of Work Experience Relevant for Application

Applicants are encouraged to have gained some previous relevant work experience. The benefit of work experience is that it is likely to enhance the understanding of clinical issues and allow a prospective student to determine whether they would like to pursue working with a clinical population. Should an applicant be invited to interview, they will be advantaged if able to draw upon previous work experiences, particularly in regard to answering questions that specifically assess understanding of clinical issues and potential difficulties of work in clinical contexts.

CLINICAL

  • DOCS case worker: Disabilities, Adoption, Foster Care, Child Protection
  • Mental Health Information Officer, Association For Mental Health
  • Counsellor: Centacare, Anglicare, Relationships Australia, Wesley Gambling Counselling
  • Therapist: BIRDS, Brain Injury Community Rehabilitation Team, Royal Rehabilitation Centre 9809 9030
  • Marriage And Relationships Educator / Group Facilitator, Centacare
  • Social Worker, Ted Noffs Drug And Alcohol Rehabilitation Service
  • Group Behaviour Therapist, Triumph Over OCD And Phobias (TOP), Anxiety Disorders Alliance
  • Support Group Coordinator, Transcultural Mental Health Centre or STARRTS
  • Abuse services: Rape Crisis Centre, Domestic Violence Counselling, Dympna House (Incest Counselling)
  • Registered Nurse in Acute Care Psychiatric Hospital
  • Registered Nurse in Acute and Palliative Settings
  • Intern Psychologist in Neuropsychology Private Practice
  • Child & Family Psychologist, Department of Health
  • Foster Care Caseworker (Drama group for boys with ADHD ages 8-12yrs)
  • Therapist With Autistic Children (Implementing Intervention Strategies), Autism Association
  • Youth Worker in a Refuge
  • Respite Worker for Disabled Children (Home Care)
  • Support Worker, Schizophrenia Fellowship, Pioneer Clubhouse (Rehab Program for People with Mental Illness (Schizophrenia, Bipolar)
  • Aged Care Worker, Residential Care, Alzheimers Association
  • Disabilities Community Support Worker
  • Disabilities And Home Care Worker. Department of Ageing (Adult Day program)
  • Principal Project Worker at a Hostel for Homeless Men
  • Accomodation Services: Independent Community Living, Psychiatric Rehabilitation Service, New Horizons Enterprises
  • Employment Services for people with a mental illness: Centrelink, Care Employment, Westworks, Commonwealth Rehabilitation Service
  • Clinical case manager, Adult mental health service
    Clinician, Mental health crisis team
  • ABA (Applied Behavioural Analysis)Therapist, The Lizard Children's Centre, working with children with Autism
  • Psychologist, Government department, juvenile court cases
  • Special needs teachers' aide, primary schools
  • Clinician, Leonard Cheshire foundation (UK), for people with ABI, physical disabilities, and severe learning disabilities
  • Drug and alcohol counsellor, Gorman House, Detoxification unit, St. Vincent's Hospital
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RESEARCH

  • Research Nurse (working on Depression Trial)
  • Research: Sydney Clinic, (Analysis of Treatment Outcome Of Inpatients And Outpatients)
  • Research Assistant/ Home Observer: UNSW Psychology Clinic (Clinical Treatment Trial For Children (Boys Aged Approx 4-8) With Conduct / Behavioural Problems)
  • Research Assistant: UNSW Professor Of Clinical Psychology (Clinically Relevant Experiments)
  • Research Assistant in Neuropsychology (UNSW/Practice Practice)
  • Data collection or RA work in a field relevant to Clinical or Experimental Neuropsychology
  • Research assistant, interviewing participants for an eating disorders study
  • Research Officer, Justice Health, NSW Health Department, Integration of prisoners in the immediate post release period
  • Research assistant, Justice Health, NSW Health Department, Hepatitis prevalence in NSW prisoners, responses to treatment and reinfection rates
  • Research assistant, NH&MRC clinical trial for the treatment of alcohol dependence (client management, research assessments, follow-up interviews)
  • Research with clinical groups at Brain Dynamics Centre Westmead Hospital
  • Questionnaire development, COPMI people (Children of Parents With Mental Illnesses)
  • Research Assistant, Neuropsychology Lab

VOLUNTARY

  • Carers NSW, Serenity NSW
  • Schizophrenia Association, Schizophrenia Fellowship of NSW
  • Alzheimers Association
  • Epilepsy Association
  • Anxiety Disorders Alliance: Self Help, Support Groups
  • Depression & Mood Disorders Association: Support Groups
  • Mental Health Association NSW, Mental Health Information Service
  • Volunteer Friend For The Mentally Ill, Association for Relatives and Friends of the Mentally Ill
  • Organisational Psychology Internship (Conducting Psychometric Assessments, Writing Reports)
  • Salvation Army: Youth programs, Soup Kitchens
  • Telephone Counselling: Lifeline, Kids Helpline, Quitline, ADIS, Abortion Help, G-line, Mens Phone Line, Womens Health Centres, Gay and Lesbian Counselling, Domestic Violence Counselling Service, Mental Health Information Service, Salvation Army Counselling, Financial counselling ARAFMI
  • Volunteer, Royal North Shore Pain Clinic
  • Volunteer counsellor, Wayside Chapel, Kings Cross
  • Volunteer, Organisational psychology internship, test administration and report writing
  • Volunteer, "Seekers" Acquired Brain Injury support group
    The Benevolent Society First Five Years Home Visiting Program
    Jacana Acquired Brain Injury unit, Brisbane, working with residents with various disorders (Broca's aphasia, temporal lobe amnesia), behaviour modifications plans, supervising group activities/discussion, socialising, basic care
  • Volunteer, Orphanage, Indonesia
  • Volunteer, Allowah Children's Hospital, Sydney
  • Volunteer health worker with psychiatric patients, Utah Mental State Hospital, USA
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