Quote From Pjlu:
Hi there, I've read your post but because it really is in a different area to mine, I haven't felt it appropriate to respond. However, given the lack of other responses, I hope you don't mind if I do-even if it isn't directly in your area.
No worries, I appreciate you going to the effort :-)
I would think it would be pretty unlikely to get much credit for a research thesis in psych for a clinical Masters as they are fairly different qualifications and the clinical Masters (in Australia at least) is explicitly used to qualify a practitioner. I would think perhaps the only credit you might get is for specific research units or if the clinical included a research project, that might be part of the clinical masters suite of professional units/courses. I think this would be true of U Syd, ANU, Melb, UWA, Monash and most of the big 8. I'm surprised that UQ is different and I could be wrong.
Psychology is a really fascinating and worthwhile discipline and, within Australia at least, clinical qualifications are rigorous and not terribly flexible with regard to entry points (possibly a good thing though, even if a bit disappointing at times). Good luck with it all. Hope some further responses or other information comes to light.
I should have made myself clearer, so its my bad. The only thing I am seeking RPL for is the masters thesis (which all clinical masters programs in Australia require), not any of the course work or clinical placements. I definitely know that they do this at some of the Go8's, which makes sense because the combined clinical masters/PhD (at some unis) does not require an additional masters thesis. So I am just wanting to knock off the equivalent of a semester, which is what the masters thesis equates to in terms of credit points
Yep I know, I have actually been accepted into clinical masters before but chose to do the PhD instead. Its a crazy scene man ;-) Thanks very much for you well wishes, and I wish you the best too
