UTS Psychology Clinic

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[Visual: Exterior of the UTS Psychology Clinic at 100 Broadway. The clinic’s logo is visible.] Margaret Eisdaile (Psychology Clinic Coordinator): The UTS Psychology Clinic is a specialist clinic within the One Hundred Broadway Clinic. We're a training clinic for the Master of Clinical Psychology students, and they do two clinical placements here as part of the practical component of their Master's degree. The clinic is centrally located in Ultimo. We're in close proximity to the Broadway Shopping Centre, Central railway, and the main interchange bus station at Railway Square.

[Visual: Map animation showing the clinic’s location relative to local landmarks.] The clinic provides low-cost mental health care to the community. The fees are heavily subsidised by UTS. All therapists are provisionally registered with the Australian Psychology Board and, as part of their ethical behaviour, they're required to observe all rules of privacy and confidentiality.

Alice Shires (Psychology Clinic Director): Students come into the clinic as, in a way, a staff team and see clients under supervision. Our staff who supervise—who are academics and researchers in the department—discuss the cases with the students and really scrutinise their work, and that's the beauty of having a training clinic like this.

Gene Efron (Clinical Psychology Student): The clinic is a teaching clinic, which means that it enables the students to put their learnings into practice.

Rachel Verin (Clinical Psychology Student): There's no substitute for actually working one-on-one directly with a client. Doing it here in the clinic in such a structured and supervised way means that before you go out into the real world, you're getting really, really constructive feedback from experts in their field.

Erika Penney (Clinical Psychology Lecturer and Supervisor): We have a whole range of clients that come to our clinic. We have young adults who might come as UTS students, we have older adults who come to see us, we have adolescents who come to see us, and we have really young families—children and parents—who come to see us.

People come to the UTS Clinic for a range of difficulties: anxiety disorders, depressive symptoms, lots of stress, as well as more complicated or complex neurocognitive disorders. No two people are the same; every person comes with their own unique difficulties. So you get a lot of experience with a whole range of different presentations.

The clinic has a number of really wonderful, innovative factors, and one of the ways this is executed is through the B-Line video technology, where students can actually watch their footage in real time straight after they've conducted a session.

Telehealth is used in the clinic. We actually implemented it really quickly, and due to the changing landscape, it's really important for clients to have the opportunity to speak with their therapist even if they live really far away, if it's a bad weather day, or if they're having a bad day. It means that they don't miss a session.

So our students, because they're advanced-level students, are getting this input from highly specialised supervisors to be able to provide leading-edge, evidence-based treatments to clients.

It provides a local service to people within the university community or wider community, to involve people more and interface between the university and the community that it sits within.

Transcript

The UTS Psychology Clinic is a specialist clinic within the 100 Broadway Clinic. We're a training clinic for Master of Clinical Psychology students, and they do two clinical placements here as part of the practical component of their degree. The clinic is centrally located in Ultimo, close to the Broadway Shopping Centre, Central Railway, and the main bus interchange at Railway Square.

The clinic provides low-cost mental health care to the community, with fees heavily subsidised by UTS. All therapists are provisionally registered with the Australian Psychology Board and are required to observe all rules of privacy and confidentiality as part of their ethical behaviour.

Students work in the clinic as part of a staff team and see clients under supervision. Our staff supervisors are academics and researchers in the department who discuss cases with students and carefully scrutinise their work. That's the beauty of having a training clinic like this.

The clinic is a teaching clinic, which enables students to put their learnings into practice. There's no substitute for working one-on-one directly with a client. Doing it here in a structured and supervised way means that before you go out into the real world, you're getting constructive feedback from experts in their field.

We see a wide range of clients at our clinic: young adults, including UTS students; older adults; adolescents; and young families, including children and parents. People come for a range of difficulties, such as anxiety disorders, depressive symptoms, stress, and more complex neurocognitive disorders. No two people are the same; everyone comes with their own unique difficulties, so you gain experience with a wide range of presentations.

The clinic has a number of innovative features. One of these is the Beeline video technology, which allows students to watch footage of their sessions in real time straight after conducting them. Telehealth is also used in the clinic. We implemented it quickly, and it's important for clients to have the opportunity to speak with their therapist even if they live far away, if the weather is bad, or if they're having a difficult day. This means clients don't miss a session.

Our students, being advanced-level trainees, receive input from highly specialised supervisors to provide leading-edge, evidence-based treatments to clients. The clinic provides a local service to people within the university and the wider community, strengthening the interface between the university and the community it serves.

[Visual: Footage of the clinic, students interacting with supervisors, clients in waiting areas, and telehealth sessions. The UTS logo appears at the end.]