Counseling
Training Program: Training Activities
Intern Seminar: 1.5 Hours per week - All year
This seminar focuses on a variety of counseling and professional issues. At least 8 weeks are devoted to assessment, 4-6 weeks are devoted to Professional Development, and 3 sessions are devoted to couples counseling. Additional topics typically included in the seminar are: ethical and legal issues, eating disorders, hypnosis, lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgendered issues, career counseling.
Group Supervision: 2.0 Hours per week - All year
In this meeting, all of the interns get together with one of the senior staff members and discuss cases, make case presentations, and review audio and video tapes of clinical work with clients. This is essentially group supervision of your individual and couples therapy. Great effort is made to make this a trusting environment so that you can explore new and creative avenues in your clinical work. During the fall semester, 8 weeks is devoted to group supervision of multicultural counseling.
Individual Clinical Supervision: 2 Hours per week - All Year
As an intern, you will receive two hours per week of individual supervision all year long. This supervision will focus most intensely on your clinical work with individuals and couples. In addition, it will focus on your overall training experience, your work in consultation and outreach, and your supervision of practicum trainees. The majority of time in individual supervision will focus on discussing cases and helping you continue to develop your clinical skills. Audio and video tapes, live observation, co-therapy, and other alternative supervision methods are also used during this time. Interns switch senior staff supervisors after the Fall, therefore having the opportunity to experience two different supervisors over the course of the year.
Diversity Seminar: 1.5 hours every other week - All year
This seminar focuses on increasing interns' knowledge of, and sensitivity to, issues of multiculturalism and diversity .The seminar meets every other week for the entire year. Topics that are covered include (but are not limited to): multicultural awareness, race/ethnicity issues in counseling, counseling international students, LGBTQ awareness and counseling, issues of oppression, domestic violence, gender role issues, etc.). Various senior staff members who emphasize these issues in their professional work lead these seminars and provide consultation to interns on these issues as needed.
Consultation Seminar: 1.5 Hours per week - All year
The Center is committed to providing consultation services to the campus community and the interns play an integral role in this service. Interns meet in Consultation Seminar every other week all year. In this seminar they learn about the various aspects of consultation and about the process of consultation. Interns spend the year setting up and running a full-scale consultation project. The fall semester is devoted to identifying a population/system with which the intern would like to consult and setting up a consultation contract. In the spring and summer semesters, the intern then carries out the consultation project. Interns can work on their own or with another intern on the consultation project.
Supervision of Practicum Trainees: 2 Hours per Week - Spring/Summer
Each intern will have the opportunity to supervise the work of a graduate level practicum trainee for the Spring semester with an option of supervising an Advanced Practicum Student in the Summer. These trainees see 4-5 clients per week. The interns serve as their primary clinical supervisors during their time here. Your responsibilities include supervising their case management and clinical work. Interns receive supervision of their supervision from: (1) their individual supervisor, and (2) a group supervision of supervision seminar that meets weekly. Our Center is a very popular practicum site for graduate students. Therefore we tend to have very highly motivated and skilled practicum students. We provide training for second-year UF Counseling Psychology students in a required practicum sequence.
Group Supervision of Supervision: 1.0 Hours per week - Spring
During the spring semester, interns supervise practicum students in the UF Counseling Psychology Program. This seminar provides group supervision for this work. The option sometimes exists to also supervise in the summer semester.