Doctoral Internship in Counseling and Clinical Psychology

Service Activities

Individual and Couples Therapy

Intern case loads average 15 hours per week in addition to 2.5 hours of triage. Therapy clients are usually seen for 50 minute appointments. More or less frequent meetings may be arranged depending on client need, however, most cases are considered short-term and many clients are seen on a biweekly basis. Interns are also encouraged to gain experience in long term psychotherapy and encouraged to carry a few long-term cases over the course of the academic or training year.

Group Counseling and Therapy

Interns co-lead a  process therapy group and participate in two structured groups (e.g. learning skills) during the internship.

Assessment

Interns are required to complete a minimum of 2 full testing batteries throughout the course of their internship year supervised by a Licensed Clinical Psychologist. Use of individualized assessments in the intern's clinical practice is ncouraged as well.

Outreach

Interns provide outreach programs to the university community as requested and participate in summer new student orientation in the month of July and Resident Advisor orientation in August.

Consultation and On-Call

The Counseling Center provides consultation to faculty and administrators as well as to parents and peers. The senior staff engages in a variety of consultation projects with various campus departments, offices, and student groups. Interns may work with senior staff on these various project areas. The Counseling Center, Student Health Services, and Residence Life Programs have a well established crisis on-call system. Interns participate in the after-hours on-call rotation with back-up from senior counseling staff.

Supervision

Interns provide 1 hour weekly of clinical supervision to a master's or doctoral level practicum student typically in the fall and spring semesters.

  

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Cook Counseling Center's Pre-doctoral Internship in Psychology.

Revised 07/05/2012
Cathye Griffin Betzel, Psy.D.