B.  Training Activities

Individual Supervision
Interns receive two hours of individual clinical supervision per week. Supervision matches are made by the Training Director after discussing training and supervision needs with the intern and change once at mid-year. Additionally interns have the opportunity to engage in a secondary supervisory relationship with a senior clinician on a rotating basis throughout the year.  

Intern Process Meeting
During this weekly meeting with the training director and/or another facilitator, interns are encouraged to share their impressions, concerns, and questions regarding their internship experience. This is an all-purpose meeting designed to serve as a peer support group, to facilitate communication and integrate experience, and to express feelings and offer feedback to the training director so that individual needs of interns can be met more precisely. This is also a meeting during which intern cohort issues and dynamics will be explored.  

Clinical Team Meetings
Teams of four-to-seven staff meet weekly to make decisions about case dispositions, make case presentations, consult on case management (e.g., brief vs. long term treatment), and provide mutual support. Team composition represents diversity by gender, ethnicity, theoretical orientation, and experience.  

Professional Staff Development
Interns participate in staff development sessions. Topics include team-building activities, staff presentations in areas of expertise, presentations by psychologists from the University and Eugene community, and case presentations by both interns and staff.  

Multicultural Professional Development
Small group of clinical and administrative staff (including interns) develop an all staff multicultural workshop. This occurs three times each year and the planning committee changes each time. 

Intern Seminars 

• Supervision Seminar

This year-long seminar supervises interns on their clinical supervision of practicum interns. Topics include models of supervision, assessment of supervisees, supervision strategies and techniques, multicultural supervision, ethics, and relationship issues.  

• Assessment Seminar
  Interns meet with the assessment coordinator during orientation and fall term for a review of administering and interpreting diagnostic instruments (WAIS-R Rorschach, Woodcock-Johnson III, TOVA, and clinical interview) and synthesizing the information in the form of an assessment report. Each intern writes an LD/ADHD assessment report and submits it to the assessment coordinator for review and revision. This process is repeated spring quarter. The first report is due by the end of winter break and the second report is due by the beginning of June. 
   
• Ethical and Legal Issues
  This 6-8 hour seminar during orientation and for Fall term focuses on orienting interns to Oregon State statutes pertaining to the practice of psychology, reviewing aspects the Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code Of Conduct, and exploring ethical and legal dilemmas faced by psychologists. 
   
• Crisis Intervention and Risk Management Seminar
  This 4-6 hour seminar during orientation and Fall term addresses the risk assessment, theoretical and empirically-supported approaches to managing crisis situations, and UCTC policies and procedures related to crisis management. 
   
• Brief Therapy Seminar
  This 4-6 hour seminar during orientation provides theroretical and practical information on providing brief therapy in counseling centers.  Discussion and clinical cases are included in the format.
   
• Multicultural Seminar
  This year long seminar provides didactic and experiential training in multicultural issues. Interns focus on how one’s own culture affects both the personal and professional self, and how diversity issues affect the therapeutic process. The goals are to increase interns’ competence in working effectively with diverse clientele and to appreciate a multicultural perspective. 
   
• Groups Seminar
  This 4-5 week seminar provides training on group therapy. The seminar will focus on practical issues such as screening group members, being a co-leader, facilitating group processes, etc., along with larger issues of theory and effectiveness with clients. 
   
• Case Presentation Seminar
  In this Winter and Spring term seminar, interns present and discuss taped sections of client sessions. The seminar is designed to further strengthen conceptualization and intervention skills. Interns’ presentations will include a written summarization of their case that discusses the client’s background, problem history, therapeutic progress, goals of therapy, unique difficulties in working with their client, and tentative DSM-IV diagnosis. Additionally, interns will have the opportunity to view the seminar leader and other clinical staffs’ work throughout the year.
   
• Career and Job Search Issues Seminar
  This four week seminar during Fall and Winter term is geared toward helping interns begin to update their vitae, write cover letters, identify positions in which they might be interested in applying and share reactions to the job search process. 
   
• Assessment and Treatment of Substance Abuse Seminar
  This 4-7 hour seminar module focuses on general models of assessment and treatment of substance abuse, including empirically-supported treatments. While some time is spent in didactic presentation of material, the majority of the seminar will revolve around discussion and presentation of actual clinical cases by the seminar leader and interns. 
   
• Assessment and Treatment of Psychological Trauma
  This 4-7 hour module focuses on general models of assessment and treatment of trauma, including empirically-supported treatments. While some time is spent in didactic presentation of material, the majority of the seminar will revolve around discussion and presentation of actual clinical cases by the seminar leader and interns. 
   
• Assessment and Treatment of Eating Disorders
  This 4-7 hour module focuses on general models of assessment and treatment of eating disorders, including empirically-supported treatments. While some time is spent in didactic presentation of material, the majority of the seminar will revolve around discussion and presentation of actual clinical cases by the seminar leader and interns.
   
• Psychiatry Seminar
  This 4.5 hour seminar is facilitated by one of our health center psychiatrists.  This seminar is focused on consultation regarding current clients as well as providing information.