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Psychology interns will receive a minimum of 8 hours of didactic experience every month, which corresponds to a minimum of 2 hours of didactic experiences per week. Most didactic trainings are presented in the form of didactic presentations, but may also include seminars (see below for description of assessment seminar and psychotherapy seminar), case conferences, treatment team meetings, professional development, practice management, grand rounds, regional training opportunities, journal club, and research team meetings.
Didactics are scheduled for two hours weekly which includes sessions on various special topics in clinical psychology, ethical decision-making, and professional development as a psychologist. Multidisciplinary core faculty and behavioral health staff (e.g., psychologists, psychiatrists and social workers) provide trainings on a variety of topics including cultural diversity, psychopharmacology and challenging treatment issues. As much as possible, additional topics will be included at the request of the current intern class. The early part of the year will focus on covering Indiana laws related to the practice of psychology, suicide/homicide assessment and child/elder abuse reporting. There are also seminars related to supervision and multicultural awareness. In addition, each psychology intern is required to make a formal presentation/job talk on a topic or issue of their choice prior to the end of the training year.
This weekly case staffing seminar allows interns to formally present assessment cases of children, adolescents and adults evaluated through the outpatient clinics. Fundamentals of psychological assessment including test administration, selection of testing instruments, collection of collateral reports, integration of testing data, report writing, recommendations for feedback sessions, etc. will be discussed throughout the year. Integration of test data, history and DSM5 diagnostic criteria will be emphasized with particular attention placed on differential diagnosis. More advanced levels of diagnostic and treatment issues with various populations are also presented (e.g., schizophrenia spectrum disorders, neurodevelopmental disorders, personality disorders and trauma).
Fundamentals of psychotherapy are reviewed in an effort to develop a common language among all the psychology interns, who presumably have been taught how to conceptualize clinical cases from differing theoretical orientations during their graduate training. This unique, year-long case conference involves presentations of therapy cases seen at the various training settings. Psychology interns formally present cases which are then discussed from varying clinical orientations/schools of thought (i.e., cognitive-behavioral, acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), psychodynamic/psychoanalytic, family systems, multicultural, narrative perspectives).
Particular attention is paid to the technical and process issues involved in therapeutic alliance building, alliance maintenance, development of a focus, collaborative efforts to translate understanding into behavioral change, and the sensitive handling of termination. Videotapes/audiotapes of actual therapy processes are viewed/discussed. Occasionally, participants present special topics including current literature, empirically supported treatment approaches, resources for patients/clients and other topics related to clinical practice.
