Training Program: Training Activities
Intern Seminar: 1.5 Hours per week - All year
This seminar focuses on a variety of counseling and professional issues. Eight weeks are devoted to assessment, 4 weeks are devoted to Professional Development, 4 to substance abuse and addictions, 3 to group counseling, 3 sessions to couples counseling, and 3 to eating disorders. Additional topics typically included in the seminar are: career counseling, supervision, mindfulness, psychotropic medications, crisis intervention.
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 videos of clinical work. 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.
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. Videos, live observation, co-therapy, and other supervision methods are also used during this time. Interns switch senior staff supervisors after the Fall semester, 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) the following issues in counseling: international students, LGBTQ identity, oppression and privilege, non-Eurocentric counseling approaches, and spirituality and religion. A section on diversity in group counseling, couples counseling, supervision, outreach and consultation is also covered over a series of several weeks. 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 - 5 sessions fall semester
The Center is committed to providing consultation services to the campus community and the interns play an integral role in this service. In Consultation seminar they learn about the various aspects of consultation and about the process of consultation. Interns choose to be involved in consultation training at one of three levels, depending on their level of interest: Level One - intern attends consultation seminar and shadows a senior staff member on one consultation experience; Level Two - intern attends consultation seminar and works as an apprentice to a senior staff member on a consultation project; Level Three - intern attends consultation seminar and does a full-scale consultation project on their own. Intern contracts reflect the differing number of hours at the different levels of training.
Supervision of Practicum Trainees: 2 Hours per Week - Spring/Summer
Each intern will have the opportunity to supervise the work of a doctoral 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 the Spring and Summer terms. 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 provides training for second-year UF Counseling Psychology students in a required practicum sequence. Our practicum trainees tend to be very eager & motivated.
Group Supervision of Supervision: 1.0 Hours per week - Spring/Summer
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.