Survey of Current Curriculum Practices within Australian Postgraduate Clinical Training Programmes: Students' and Programme Directors' Perspectives

Australian Psychologist

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 77-89

  Scott, Theresa L ^a   Pachana, Nancy A ^a   Sofronoff, Kate ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Clinical psychology; Curriculum; Leximancer; Profession; Teaching methods; Training

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959230257     PISSN: 00050067     EISSN: 17429544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-9544.2011.00030.x     Document Type: Article

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