Training Requirements

The University of Kentucky Counseling Center (UKCC) requires all psychology interns to complete a 2000 hour internship with a minimum of 500 hours of direct service.

Clinical Service

1. Individual/couples Therapy: Provide individual/couples therapy for an average of fourteen (14) clinical hours per week.
2. Group Therapy: Co-facilitate one on-going therapy group with a senior staff member, fellow intern, or practicum student in both the fall and spring semesters.
3. Intake: Provide a minimum of two intake sessions per week.
4. Crisis Intervention: Provide 2 hours per week of day-time crisis coverage throughout the academic year. Provide 4 hours per week of day-time crisis coverage during the summer months. Licensed supervisors provide back up for consultation and supervision of crisis work. Crisis intervention will include phone calls and consultation with concerned faculty, staff, parents and friends of students at the university as well as walk-ins to the center.

Outreach & Consultation

Outreach and consultation project(s) require a time commitment of 1-2 hours per week and may involve work outside of UKCC.

1. Outreach programs:
A. Interns are expected to participate in a total of 20 programs (approximately 2 programs per month) during the intern year as described below
B. Outreach programs include: didactic/interactive programs or presentations to classes, student organizations, specific populations; tabling events; UKCC infomercial; panel representative
i. Observe a minimum of two (2) outreach didactic/interactive programs/presentations conducted by psychologists on the UKCC staff (counts toward 20 total; done during the fall semester)
ii. Co-facilitate a miniumun of (2) outreach didactic/interactive programs/presentations conducted by psychologists on the UKCC staff prior to conducting an outreach program independently (counts toward 20 total; done during the fall semester).
iii. Facilitate a minimum of six (6) outreach didactic/interactive programs/presentations for the UKCC over the academic year (aim for three per semester).
iv. Participate in a minimum of two (2) screening programs during the internship year (e.g. depression (fall or spring semesters) and alcohol screening (spring semester). These will be included in the 20 outreach programs for the year.
v. Develop one (1) didactic/interactive outreach program.
1. You may choose a population you want to reach out to or select a topic you are passionate about/have expertise in that you believe students would be interested in attending
2. Create an outreach program with this audience/topic in mind
3. Advertise and facilitate this workshop
4. Create a file for the presentation on the Center's Outreach shared drive which includes any materials you used for the presentation including: outline of presentation, PowerPoint or Prezi, didactic information for the facilitator, handouts, references, and advertising materials.

2. Liason Relationship:
A. Partner with a staff member to participate in a liaison relationship between the Counseling Center and a group, department, or organization associated with the University.
B. Attend a University committee meeting with the staff member. Committees should meet approximately once a month or a minimum of once a semester. (Examples of committees include: Retroactive withdrawal committee, Hazing Committee, Tobacco Task Force, LGBTQ Task Force, Veterans Task Force, KY Center for Eating and Weight Disorders)
C. Liaison relationships must be decided upon and approved by October 1st, 2012.

3. Consultation Project:
This project is an in-depth consultation experience where interns will consult with a department on campus, student group, or population of students. A needs/program/organization assessment will be conducted and recommendations/suggestions will be made based on the assessment. These results will be reported to the consultee either in the form of a report or a formal presentation. This project will often result in very useful information for the Center that can be utilized in future outreach and consultation experiences.

Learning Disability and AD/HD Assessment:

1. Administer at least 6 test batteries during the internship year. Batteries will include a complete biopsychosocial interview, standard intelligence, attention, and achievement measures, as well as behavior checklists. Two (2) batteries should be completed by the end of the fall semester. Efforts should be made to use assessment instruments across different cultural groups (broadly defined).
2. Bring test results and questions for discussion while working on assessments to the Assessment Seminar to be utilized as case material for the latter part of assessment seminar. Interns will integrate results to formulate diagnoses and generate recommendations. Complete reports will be written for each case.
3. Complete an assessment case report for each referral received during the internship year. All assessments should be complete with feedback provided to the student by July 15.
4. Come to seminar prepared, having read literature related to learning disabilities, AD/HD, and general aspects of assessment which will be provided and reviewed.

Supervision:

1. Individual Supervision: Receive two hours/ week of clinical supervision for individual cases, intake evaluations, crisis walk-ins and consultation phone calls. Interns are responsible for making up all missed supervision sessions.
2. Supervision of Advanced Practicum students: Provide 1 hour of individual co-supervision with a licensed psychologist for a doctoral level practicum student during the spring semester. Maintain documentation of supervision sessions, co-signed by the co-supervisor (a licensed staff member).
3. Group therapy supervision: Receive up to one and a half-hours/week of group therapy supervision.
4. Participate in Assessment Seminar presenting case material and discussion questions about assessments and report-writing.
5. Case Presentation (supervision of individual work in a group setting): Participate in case conference meetings every other week. Present cases every 8 weeks for a total of 5 case presentations during the internship year.

Case presentations: Provide a short (2-page) write-up for the case presentation including:
-Identifying Information
-Presenting concerns - including how problem developed and prior coping attempts
-Relevant Hx of Presenting Problem, Interpersonal Hx, Family Hx
-Testing Results, if any
-5 Axis Diagnosis
-Client goals
-Case Conceptualization
-Summary of treatment - including your assessment of how things have gone so far
-Theoretical understanding of the case and/or theory behind your treatment approach
-How is your understanding of the case and your clinical work being informed by science
-Questions (specific issues you want input on)
-References
-A video clip should be included in the presentation

6. Supervision of Supervision
-Participate in all supervision of supervision activities.
-Prepare and discuss two formal PowerPoint supervision case presentations in the spring semester noting the following:
A. Supervisee’s demographics including prior clinical experience and current clinical interests/disinterests.
B. Number of supervisory sessions to date
C. Goals established for supervision
D. Current assessment of supervisee in the following areas, and how you are assessing them (including evidence-based techniques):
-Clinical skills
-Knowledge of theory/interventions
-Autonomy/dependence
-Motivation
-Self-other awareness
-Knowledge of ethical and legal guidelines & adherence to them
-Use of supervision including interpersonal dynamics in supervision, if relevant
Questions for supervision group

Training Activities
1.Training Seminars: Attend and participate in all of the scheduled training seminars. Several seminars have presentation requirements- see seminar description.
2. Prepare presentation for diversity seminar on a culturally adapted therapy. Provide references for the seminar participants. Topic must be approved by January 31, 2013.
3. Participate and present during case conference meetings.
4. Participate in inservice training meetings.
5. Attend and participate in staff meetings.
6. Attend and participate in meetings with training director.
7. Attend Student Affairs Meetings.
8. Attend and participate in assigned consultation meetings.
9. Taping: Record ALL counseling sessions with clients’ signed permission-This form will be part of the client’s file.
10. Keep a record of clinical, outreach and assessment hours as well as total hours

Research
1. Research presentation - Present research you have recently worked on or in which you are currently involved. Presentation will occur over the summer during the staff inservice meeting.

Evaluation Activities
1. Supervisor(s) Evaluations - Interns receive evaluations from supervisors three times during the internship year (December, May, and July).
2. Intern evaluation of supervisors - All supervisors will be evaluated by the intern after the intern has been evaluated by the supervisor(s).
3. Interns’ evaluation of practicum student supervisee: interns complete the evaluation form jointly with their co-supervisor for the practicum student they are supervising (Mid Spring, End Spring).
4. Supervisee's evaluation of intern and co-supervisor as supervisors - Practicum students will evaluate the intern on his/her role of supervisor.
5. Case Presentation Evaluation - Staff member in attendance during the interns’ presentation during case conference meetings in December, May and July/August will complete the case presentation evaluation section of the evaluation for that evaluation period.
6. Seminar Evaluations - Coordinator (s) of each seminar will complete the section of the intern evaluation form pertaining to the topic of her or his seminar. These evaluations will be integrated into the supervisor's evaluation of the intern.
7. Forms for Academic Programs: Interns are responsible for submitting all required forms to their doctoral program and making copies for the Training Coordinator at their home institution, UKCC supervisors, and themselves.
8. Training Director will provide a letter documenting the completion or lack of completion of the internship to the Director of Clinical Training from the home academic program.

Documentation
1. Case notes: Document contact with clients within 24 hours. Clients’ files are to include all case notes of individual/group sessions and any other contact the intern had with the client including phone conversations.
2. Consultation is also to be documented. Document Crisis/OD notes by the end of the business day when the client was seen.
3. Intake reports and terminations: Write initial assessment reports within 48 hours and termination reports within 30 days of client's last session.
4. Sign all of your supervisee’s case notes and termination reports and forward to your co-supervisor.
5. Write notes about supervision of students and forward to your co-supervisor.
6. After forms are signed by clients, provide the forms to support staff so that they can be scanned into the client’s record. All signed release forms and signed permission to digitally record sessions are part of the client file.
7. Clinical work log: Maintain schedule and log of activities in Titanium.
8. Keep a training hour log: Log all service delivery activities and total internship hours
9. Request vacation and professional development time in advance by sending an email to the Training Coordinator, copied to the intern's individual supervisor, requesting the particular dates for approval.