Clinical Services, Supervision, and Training Activities

Clinical Services

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Largest quantity of intern’s direct service time
One-on-one psychotherapy with UND students
UCC utilizes both short and long-term therapy models
Flexibility to provide the most appropriate treatment for client’s needs and presentation

Therapy groups are offered to UND students each semester
May be topical, support-based, process-oriented, psychoeducational or a combination
Interns may participate as co-facilitators with a staff member or peer (summer or fall semester) or conduct groups on their own (spring semester) based on interest, clinical skill, and client/student interest.
Examples: Stress Reduction, Graduate Student Support Group, Gender Support Group, and more

Conduct initial assessment sessions on a regular basis
Develop skills in clarifying presenting concerns, formulating case conceptualizations and diagnostic impressions, and developing appropriate treatment plans

Administer and interpret cognitive, learning, and personality assessments to support diagnosis and aid in treatment planning
Nature and extent of assessment opportunities is determined by past training and experience with specific assessments
Gain exposure to aviation psychological assessments and their unique considerations

Provide crisis services and risk assessment to students
Small blocks of time, during the normal workday, are reserved on all staff and intern schedules for services as a walk-in/crisis provider
When not scheduled for a crisis appointment, this time may be utilized for documentation or other administrative duties
No after-hours/on-call crisis duties at this time

Provide psycho-educational workshops and participate in campus outreach programming
- Examples: Green Bandana (suicide prevention), emotional first aid, stress management and more
Serve as consultants to campus members when needed to support the emotional and mental well-being of students
- Examples: Residence Life, Greek Life, Graduate School, Medical School, Pride Center
Opportunity to develop outreach relevant to the campus community and to intern’s professional skills and interests

UCC is a practicum site for Master’s and Doctoral students from the UND Counseling, Counseling Psychology, and Clinical Psychology programs
Interns provide supervision to doctoral-level trainees
Vertical learning model utilized, where intern’s supervision provision is supervised by intern’s licensed psychologist clinical supervisor
Supervisors at all levels are responsible for:
- Providing consistent informal and formal evaluative feedback
- Reviewing, editing, and signing progress notes and clinical documentation
- Reviewing videotaped therapy sessions
- Providing education and consultation to supervisees

UCC recognizes the importance of research in the development of a professional psychologist and interns are encouraged and given time to pursue research interests
May include analysis and writing for dissertation or publication
Time allotted for research may vary (i.e., times of peak clinical demand may reduce time for research, while winter breaks and summer have less clinical demand and allow for more time dedicated to research)
Interns participate in journal review and discussion to stay engaged with updated science-based/evidence-based practices
Interns may also complete research that supports the UCC mission and is collaboratively identified and supported by the UCC director, training director, or internship program director

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Initial orientation to UCC prior to start of the fall semester
- Intern’s initial level of clinical development is determined through discussions and informal evaluation between interns and supervisors
- Trainings and didactics begin
- Interns meet with UCC staff and campus partners to discuss opportunities for programming and collaboration
Interns meet once monthly year-round with the training director
Interns meet with the internship program director bi-weekly in the summer and fall semester and once monthly in the spring semester
Interns can discuss their experience and progress, offer programmatic feedback, and address any concerns or issues pertaining to internship experiences during meetings with the training director and internship program director

2 scheduled hours per week with assigned primary supervisor, a licensed psychologist
Primary supervisor assignments change at the mid-point of the training year to facilitate experiencing a broad range of theoretical and clinical approaches, as well as supervisory styles.
- Intern will have exposure to two different primary supervisors during the training year
Informal supervision via consultations with primary supervisors, training team staff, and other licensed staff clinicians
Additional supervision to support and oversee psychological assessment, supervision provision, and co-facilitation/facilitation of group psychotherapy
Additional supervision regarding clinical work in which another psychologist or staff member has special expertise may also be provided when appropriate
- Examples: Aviation psychology, substance use, working with veterans

Reviewing videotaped therapy sessions is an integral piece of supervision

1 scheduled hour per week of supervision of intern’s supervision provision to doctoral trainees
Usually individually with primary supervisor
Designed to support interns’ training in the practice of clinical supervision
Includes a teaching component and direct supervision of the intern’s clinical practice of supervising
Additional supervision of supervision, individually or as a group, may occur with the training director, and/or the internship program director

1 - 2 scheduled hours per week for UCC clinical staffing and case conference
Bi-weekly 1-hour Student Health Services Integrated Clinical Staffing during fall and spring semesters
- Clinical staffing and case consultation meeting between UCC and Student Health Services including those providing psychiatry and medication management services to clients
- Increases interns’ familiarity with a multidisciplinary approach and improves consultation and interprofessional/ interdisciplinary skills and communication

8 hours per month on average (typically 2 hours per week)
Range of advanced topics that increase in skill and depth as intern progresses through internship year
Topics may include:
- Ethics
- Licensure
- Risk Assessment
- Grand Rounds with UND School of Medicine, Psychiatry, and Health Sciences
- Counseling in Higher Education
- Assessment
- Supervision
- Mindfulness
- Mind-Body Medicine
- Substance Use/Addiction Counseling
- Aviation Psychology and Assessment
- Cultural Humility and Culturally-Competent Counseling
- Couples Counseling
- Utilizing Expressive Arts in Counseling