Clinical and Consultation Service Activities

Individual Therapy

Intern individual therapy caseloads average 15-18 clients per week. Therapy clients are 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 most clients are seen every other week. 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 training year. If interns have training in couples therapy and interest in providing couples therapy, they may be assigned 1-3 couples cases per year.

Group Therapy

Interns co-lead one therapy group per semester with another staff clinician. In fall, interns begin with co-leading an interpersonal process therapy group. In spring, interns may also participate in skills-based / psychoeducational therapy groups.

Assessment

Interns are required to complete a minimum of two full, testing batteries throughout the course of their internship year, supervised by a licensed clinical psychologist. Assessment batteries are comprised of the following: (1) structured clinical interview, (2) personality measure such as PAI, MMPI, or MCMI, (3) a projective measure such as the Rorschach, TAT, Rotter Incomplete Sentence Bank, and (4) other symptom measures such as the Trauma Symptom Inventory, the Eating Disorder Inventory, etc. Use of stand-alone assessment instruments with individual therapy clients is also encouraged.

Outreach

Interns provide outreach programs to the university community as requested as well as participate in campus-wide outreach events such as Gobblerfest and Finals Extravaganza. They may also assist with Transfer Student, New Student, and International Student Orientations.

Consultation and On-Call

Cook Counseling Center provides consultation to faculty and administrators as well as to parents and peers. CCC staff clinicians engage in liaison work with various campus partners, offices, and student groups, and interns may work with staff clinicians on these various project areas.

Cook Counseling Center, Student Health Services, and Residence Life Programs have after-hours crisis on-call systems. Interns participate in the after-hours on-call rotation with back-up from their primary supervisor. In addition to after-hours on-call, interns provide crisis consultation hours during business hours for students who urgently need unscheduled appointments at the counseling center.

Supervision

Interns provide one hour weekly clinical supervision to a master's or doctoral level practicum student, typically in both the fall and spring semesters, depending on the number of practicum trainees available, and occasionally during the summer sessions. In the event that an intern does not have the opportunity to supervise in the fall semester, they may elect another area in which to gain some additional experience (such as group therapy or outreach) with the understanding that they will be given the opportunity to supervise in the spring. All interns participate in the Supervision of Supervision seminar in both fall and spring semesters regardless of whether they have a supervisee that semester.