Training Seminars


Case Conference Seminar

The goal of this weekly seminar is to further strengthen the intern's conceptualization and intervention skills. Throughout the year, this seminar provides interns with an opportunity to receive group supervision of their individual, group, and couples clients. Additionally, during the Fall semester senior staff therapists will take turns making a formal presentation of one of their clients and providing the interns with the opportunity to view/discuss their work. During the Spring semester, interns will have the opportunity to make a formal case presentation for their peers and invited senior staff members.

Intern Process Meeting

During this bi-monthly meeting with the internship coordinator, 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, to discuss progress toward internship goals, and to express feelings and offer feedback to the internship coordinator so that individual needs of interns can be met more precisely.

Diversity Seminar

This bi-monthly seminar during the Fall semester provides didactic and experiential training in diversity issues. Although discussion of human differences takes place throughout the training program (e.g. during supervision, case seminar, staff meeting, assessment training, etc) this seminar gives interns a specific opportunity to learn more about issues related to religion, sexual orientation, and ethnicity; to discuss how diversity affects identity development and the therapeutic process; and to explore how one's own world view affects both the personal and professional self. The goal of this seminar is to increase the intern's competence in working effectively with diverse clientele.

Supervision Seminar

This bi-monthly seminar during the Spring semester provides interns with group supervision regarding their clinical supervision of practicum students. The seminar incorporates didactic information, modeling, and review of video tapes of supervision sessions between interns and practicum students. Topics include models of supervision, assessment of supervisees, supervision strategies and techniques, diversity issues in supervision, ethics, and relationship issues. This seminar balances knowledge with experience to develop the basic philosophy, skills, and confidence necessary for creating a productive supervisory relationship.

Professional Issues Seminar

This is a weekly seminar covering a wide range of topics based on the intern group's needs and interests. Counseling Center staff often present on subjects within their expertise, and distinguished guest clinicians and professors are invited to come and share their experiences as well. Interns will also have the opportunity to develop and present a seminar on a topic of their choice to the Counseling Center staff. Some past presentations and workshops include:

Adult - ADHD
Appreciating Diversity
Bibliotherapy & Journals in Therapy
Buddhism, Taoism & Western Psychology
College Student Development Theories
Counseling African Americans
Counseling Native Americans
Couples Therapy
Dealing with Depression
Dream Work
Empirically Validated Treatments
Existential Psychotherapy
Feminist Psychotherapy
GLBT Issues in College and Counseling
Guided Imagery/Hypnotherapy
Health Psychology
Introduction to Providing Supervision
Job Search
Managing Anxiety
Mental Health with Rural Populations
Multicultural Factors in Group Therapy
Neuropsychological Assessment
Personality Disorders
Positive Psychology
Preventing Burnout/Self Care
Psychoeducational Assessment
Psychological Trauma
Racial Identidy Development & Theory
Referring Clients for Medication
Spirituality & Counseling
Stages of Change in Therapy
Suicide Risk & Management
Traumatic Brain Injury
Women's Issues
Animal Assisted Therapy
Attachment & Relationships
Boundary Issues in Therapy and Supervision
Career Issues in Therapy
College Student Retention
Counseling Asian Americans
Counseling Students with Learning Disabilities
Critical Incident Stress Debriefings
Dialectical Behavior Therapy
Eating Disorders
Ethics & Counseling Center Practice
Family Therapy
"Flow" & Therapy
Group Therapy
Guilt & Shame
Interpersonal Psychology
Introduction to Utah/LDS Culture
Learning Disability Assessment
Men's Issues
Motivational Interviewing
Networking & Professional Involvement
Obesity Management
Persuasion & Healing
Preparing for Licensure
Providing Outreach & Consultation
Psychological Assessment
Psychopharmacology
Redecision Gestalt Therapy
Sex Therapy & Sexual Addictions
Sport Psychology/Working with Athletes
Substance Use/Abuse
Trauma & Treatment
Utah Child Abuse Reporting Laws

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