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Predoctoral Internship
Training Philosophy and Goals
The internship year is a time for professional integration. We provide training opportunities designed to promote the development of highly ethical, culturally sensitive, and clinically competent pre-doctoral interns. Upon completion of our program interns should be well prepared to step-into entry level psychologist positions. To support this goal, we provide a safe learning environment that encourages interaction, risk taking, honest self-appraisal, collaboration, and team work.
Training Model
Our Center utilizes a Learning-by-Doing Training Model. As the name implies, our approach emphasizes apprenticeship, mentorship, and experiential learning. We believe that by providing close professional mentorship, combined with developmentally appropriate challenges, interns will mature into skilled psychologists. Therefore, we provide a variety of clinical, supervisory, consultative, and administrative experiences, all designed to give interns a realistic taste of the multi-faceted duties of UCC staff psychologists. To achieve this end, interns gain experience providing intakes, individual and couples therapy, group therapy, crisis management, outreach, consultation, and supervision. Moreover, they establish liaison relationships, attend professional meetings, and serve on administrative committees. Taking into account both the interns’ goals for their training and their developmental needs, we strive to provide the optimal balance of support and challenge.
Training Goals
Our central training goal is to create learning experiences that enable our interns, by completion of our Program, to acquire knowledge, confidence and competence in the following core areas of practice:
short-term individual and couples therapy
group counseling
cultural competence
professional and ethical decision making
clinical assessment
crisis intervention
clinical supervision
outreach and consultation
All senior staff members are involved in the training of interns via teaching, supervision, and mentoring.
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