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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. In the summer, first year students enroll in the clinical practicum. The practicum focuses on the development of interviewing skills and the basics of clinical observation and case formulation. In addition, legal and ethical issues pertaining clinical practice are presented. Students also observe a demonstration case conducted by an advanced student. 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 six 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 Child Study Center; often these students elect to begin training in couples and marital therapy. 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 Child Study Center. Treatment supervision emphasizes evidence-based approaches with substantial training in cognitive and behavioral approaches. Supervised experience with other approaches such as systemic family therapy and psychodynamic 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 with one hour of supervision for each hour of client contact. 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 often 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 Child Study Center 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 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, Mental Health Center of Denver, Boulder Mental Health Center, National Jewish Center for Immunology and Respiratory Medicine, and the Denver Health Medical Center. Over the course of their training, the typical student accumulates approximately 2000 hours of clinical experience prior to internship. 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. As our table on student statistics indicates, all 25 of the students in the last 5 years received funded, accredited internships on "match day". Almost all were their first or second choices. The internships the students went to included: Rush Presbyterian, Chicago, Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago, University of Washington Medical Center, University of North Carolina Medical Center, University of Rochester Medical Center, University of Maryland Medical School, Mercy Hospital Kansas City, Mailman Center, University of Miami Medical School, Children's Hospital of Denver, Children's National Medical Center, Washington, D.C., Packard Children's Hospital, Stanford, Children's Hospital of Boston, Western Psychiatric Institute at the University of Pittsburgh, University of San Diego Medical School, University of New Mexico Children's Hospital, May Institute, Boston, Children's Hospital, Salt Lake, Cambridge Hospital Massachusetts. Child Clinical Overview | Research | Course Work | Clinical Training | Accreditation | Statistics About Our Students and Applicants |
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Core FacultyAnne DePrince
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