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Child Clinical TrainingChild Clinical Overview | Research | Course Work | Clinical Training | Accreditation | Statistics About Our Students and ApplicantsClinical training progresses through a sequence of integrated phases. In the first year, students complete courses in cognitive and social/emotional assessment and a course on psychotherapy. During the second year, virtually all students rotate through the Child Neuropsychology Clinic where they receive training in the assessment of learning disabilities and other neuropsychological problems. Most students complete seven assessment batteries during the second year, and participate in weekly case conferences. The students who do not elect this rotation typically begin cases in the Clinic for Child and Family Psychology; often these students elect to begin training in couples and marital therapy. During the summer after the second year, students participate in a clinical practicum that focuses on the basics of clinical interviewing and observation and the development of case formulation skills. Most students begin treatment cases during their second or third year in the program, and continue to conduct assessments with the third year assessment team in the Clinic for Child and Family Psychology. Treatment supervision emphasizes evidence-based approaches with substantial training in cognitive and behavioral approaches. Supervised experience with other approaches such as family therapy is offered. Training initially emphasizes depth with a focus on a limited number of cases with intensive supervision. This provides developing clinicians with opportunities to explore the range and limits of a specific therapeutic approach, and the chance to evaluate the goodness-of-fit between the treatment methods and one's emerging therapeutic style. In later years, breadth of training is increasingly emphasized. Supervision during the first years in the program is quite intensive. Additionally, students are commonly part of a team of students examining similar problems; for example, in recent years an Assessment Team, Cognitive Behavior Therapy Team, Family Therapy Team, Marital Team and Trauma Team have been available. Most supervision is provided by regular clinical faculty, who watch or listen to tapes of sessions. Although supervision primarily focuses on treatment and assessment issues, professional issues, especially those pertaining to the student's development as a clinician are included as well. In addition to continuing clinical work through the Clinic for Child and Family Psychology or Developmental Neuropsychology Clinic, students complete a part-time clinical externship during their fourth or fifth years. The primary aim of the externship is to broaden the student's clinical repertoire through exposure to a diverse range of clients such as inpatients, adjudicated youth or pediatric patients, and underserved populations as well as new treatment settings such as community mental health centers or hospital psychiatric or rehabilitation units. In recent years students have completed externships at the JFK Center at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Children's Hospital of Denver, Asian Pacific Development Center, Aurora Mental Health Center, Boulder Mental Health Center, Kempe Center, and the Denver Health Medical Center. In the fifth or sixth year, students complete a full-time clinical internship at an APA approved internship program. Students have been quite successful in obtaining their top ranked internships in some of the most highly regarded programs across the country In recent years, such internships have included: Aurora Mental Health Center; Cambridge Hospital, Massachusetts; Children's Hospital of Denver; Children's Hospital of Phoenix; Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago; Children's National Medical Center, Washington, D.C.; Denver Health Medical Center; Friends Hospital; John Hopkins Kennedy Krieger; Massachusetts General Hospital; Palo Alto VA; UMD New Jersey; University of California, Los Angeles; University of California San Francisco; University of Illinois, Chicago; University of New Mexico; University of San Diego Medical Center; University of Southern California; University of Washington; and Western Psychiatric Institute, Pittsburgh. |
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Core FacultyAnn Chu
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