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Training Activities
Supervision Received
Interns receive two hours of individual supervision each week by licensed staff psychologists. Clinical caseloads are the focus of primary supervision, while secondary supervision examines outreach, consultation, Graduate student and REACH Peer supervision, dissertation progress and professional development as well as focused clinical topics of the intern's choice.
Three hours of additional supervision (i.e. group supervision) is provided each week. Interns meet bi-monthly with the Internship Coordinator to review concerns, progress, issues and development. Interns receive weekly supervision in Case Conference Seminar. In addition to talking about their groups in Case Conference Seminar, interns receive weekly supervision provided by their group co-leaders. Interns also have an opportunity, as needed, to meet with the testing coordinator to review assessment concerns and go over reports. Another training activity includes weekly presentation of new cases and participation in the case assignment process during case staffing sessions. Periodical case consultations also allow staff and interns to discuss difficult cases.
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 assessment clients as well as supervision of undergraduate peer educators and outreach. 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 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. This meeting may take different structures depending on the needs of the intern cohort including a leaderless support group facilitated process group or informational meeting. It may be scheduled adjacent to the lunch hour to allow for the opportunity for extended time.
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 graduate trainees. The seminar incorporates didactic information, modeling, and review of videos of supervision sessions between interns and their supervisees. 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. CAPS staff members 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 center staff. Some past presentations and workshops include:
Appreciating Diversity
Bibliotherapy & Journals in Therapy
Buddhism, Taoism & Western Psychology
Career Issues in Therapy
College Student Development Theories
Couples Therapy
Counseling Students with Learning Disabilities
Critical Incident Stress Debriefings
Developing Your Model for Change
Empirically Validated Treatments
Existential Psychotherapy
Gift Giving
GLBT Issues in College and Counseling
Guided Imagery/Hypnotherapy
Introduction to Providing Supervision
Issues in Sexuality for Psychotherapists
Learning Disability Assessment
Men's Issues
Motivational Interviewing
Myth of Self-Esteem
Persuasion & Healing
Preventing Burnout/Self Care
Psychoeducational Assessment
Psychological Trauma
Psychopharmacology
Schema Therapy
Spirituality & Counseling
Stages of Change in Therapy
Suicide Risk & Management
Traumatic Brain Injury
Women's Issues
Working with LDS GLBT Clients
Animal Assisted Therapy
Boundary Issues in Therapy and Supervision
Collaborative Couples Therapy
College Student Retention
Counseling Asian Americans
Crisis Intervention
Dealing with Depression
Dialectical Behavior Therapy
Eating Disorders
Ethics & Counseling Center Practice
Feminist Psychotherapy
Group Therapy
Guilt & Shame
Health Psychology
Introduction to Utah/LDS Culture
Job Search
Managing Anxiety
Mindfulness in Therapy
Multicultural Factors in Group Therapy
Personality Disorders
Positive Psychology
Preparing for Licensure
Providing Outreach & Consultation
Psychological Assessment
Racial Identity Development & Theory
Sexual and Internet Addictions
Sport Psychology/Working with Athletes
Stress and Anxiety Management
Substance Use/Abuse
Trauma & Treatment
Utah Child Abuse Reporting Laws