ABSTRACT

Background

The 2019 Australian Psychology Accreditation Council’s Accreditation Standards for Psychology Programs require clinical psychology education providers to focus on building and assessing competencies. There is limited evidence regarding the most effective methods of teaching competent practice. Threshold concepts are those which change the way a learner views a topic once understood. Threshold concepts comprise a novel approach to teaching and learning in higher education which have not yet been applied to clinical psychology education.

Objective

The identification and application of threshold concepts in other practice-based health care education was reviewed to assess their utility in clinical psychology education.

Method

A search of published articles related to threshold concept theory and practice-based health care disciplines was conducted and those papers which used empirical methods to identify threshold concepts were reviewed.

Results

Nine articles where threshold concepts were identified in five practice-based health care disciplines including occupational therapy, medicine, physiotherapy, paediatric surgery and prosthetics, were found. A number of threshold concepts found in other disciplines had relevance to competencies required by the standards for clinical psychology practice, predominantly with reference to competent application of psychological interventions.

Conclusions

The literature suggests that threshold concepts are a promising area of educational innovation with strong potential to improve clinical psychology education. Identifying these concepts could assist clinical psychology educators to develop curriculum to meet the Australian standards and facilitate learners’ movement through the essential learning thresholds.

中文翻译：

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阈值概念在临床心理学教育项目中的效用

摘要

背景

2019 年澳大利亚心理学认证委员会的心理学课程认证标准要求临床心理学教育提供者专注于培养和评估能力。关于教授胜任实践的最有效方法的证据有限。阈值概念是那些改变学习者一旦理解的主题的方式的概念。阈值概念包括一种尚未应用于临床心理学教育的高等教育教学和学习的新方法。

客观的

审查了阈值概念在其他基于实践的医疗保健教育中的识别和应用，以评估它们在临床心理学教育中的效用。

方法

检索了与阈值概念理论和基于实践的医疗保健学科相关的已发表文章，并对那些使用经验方法识别阈值概念的论文进行了审查。

结果

找到了九篇文章，其中在五个基于实践的医疗保健学科中确定了阈值概念，包括职业治疗、医学、物理治疗、儿科手术和假肢。在其他学科中发现的一些阈值概念与临床心理学实践标准所要求的能力相关，主要涉及心理干预的有效应用。

结论

文献表明，阈值概念是一个很有前途的教育创新领域，具有改善临床心理学教育的巨大潜力。识别这些概念可以帮助临床心理学教育者开发符合澳大利亚标准的课程，并促进学习者通过基本学习门槛的运动。