The course allows students to synthesize the knowledge, skills, and understanding they have gained through their counselling and psychology courses, and to apply their practical skills and acquired knowledge. It aims to enhance the necessary skills for analysing and addressing a professional issue in the field of counselling psychology. Students will complete a project plan including identification and conceptualization of the professional issue, synthesis of academic literature and practical experiences on the selected professional issue, achievable objectives for the project, significance of the project, innovative approaches and learnt skills for addressing the professional issue, implementation plan of the project. They shall address potential ethical issues in their approaches and implementation as well as go through an ethical clearance procedure.

Following the proposed project plan developed in PSY373, students in this course are expected to execute their capstone projects in accordance with the proposed approaches and implementation plans. Students are also required to collect some data (quantitative and/or qualitative) to evaluate the effectiveness and implementation fidelity of their capstone projects. Students are required to interpret the findings and conduct a comprehensive discussion for the whole capstone project through presentation and final project write-up.

Upon completion of this course students should be able to: