Advanced Clinical Training Sequence

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The advanced clinical training two-semester sequence begins during the fall of the fourth curriculum year. Advanced practica requires:

a. a practica contract at the beginning of the year,

b. supervisor approved log (Time2track) per semester and annually submitted to their Advanced Practica instructor (PSY739 - 741), and

c. supervisor evaluation submitted to their Advanced Practica instructor by the deadline set by the instructor.

Clinical Supervision Training: The sequence includes each advanced student providing hourly supervision to students who are beginning their first year of intensive practica experience in the PSC. This supervision is secondary to that provided by the faculty supervisor, who remains the junior supervisee’s primary supervisor. Students will accumulate approximately 15 hours of experience in this supervision practicum arrangement. Guidelines and policies for the supervision experience will be provided by the Supervision and Consultation (Psy 763) course instructor, who also acts as the advanced student’s supervisor during the experience.

Clinical Consultation: The second component of the advanced experience is also done in conjunction with Psy 763 in fall and 741 in Spring and focuses on clinical consultation. The student is required to design a consultation activity with a community or campus

organization, under the supervision of the course instructor. The student will spend a minimum of 15 hours in designing the consultative activity, which might range from organizational consulting around mental health issues to designing a focused and time- limited clinical activity in a community setting. Typical projects might be outlining a stress management class tailored to church staff, designing a home-based parent training program to at risk families, or outlining a screening/referral prevention program around a high risk/high volume mental health problem.

In Spring students would implement the consultation as part of PSY741 course.

Requirements for the consultation will be communicated through the PSY741, Advanced Practica II, syllabus.

Clinical Services: The third component of the Advanced Practica is providing Clinical Services. The advanced practica may consist of any form of meaningful clinical activity within the scope of clinical psychological practice. Students are especially encouraged to pursue projects which are characterized by one of the following emphases:

1). Providing services to an underserved client population.

2). Expanding student background in areas that would benefit their preparation for internship.

3). Performing clinical activity that advances integration of faith and practice in an ethically appropriate and competent manner.

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4). Conducting a clinical activity that is part of an approved dissertation project for the student.

Students may occasionally be invited to participate on faculty research or clinical projects in a leadership capacity, in order to fulfill the advance practica requirement. Students may also be directed towards certain types of experience that may be viewed as requiring further development. Yet the advanced practica experience must be approved by the Practica Coordinator. The advanced practica supervisor will be evaluating not only each student’s direct clinical performance but also their skills at program development and implementation. Policies and procedures for designing and implementing the advanced practica experience will be presented in Psy 763 and Psy 739/741. Students will be required to construct an appropriate consent for treatment form that includes relevant information to allow a potential client to give informed consent. A memorandum of understanding will be created which must be signed by the student, the Advanced Practica instructor, and the appropriate representative of the organization. The memorandum of understanding will serve as an organizational informed consent form but will not eliminate the need for individual clinical consent forms from clients to whom services are directly provided.

Fifth Year Pre-Internship Training

Occasionally, students may request additional practicum experiences beyond the Advanced Practicum sequence and/or their fourth year of training. These training experiences are not regarded as components of PSY 763 or PSY 739/741. As noted in the section on Extended Practica Experiences (IV.B.2), these experiences must meet training and supervision criteria, and be approved by the DCT. As with all external practica experiences, the following are required:

a. a practica contract at the beginning of the year,

b. supervisor approved log (Time2track) per semester and annually submitted to the DCT, and

c. supervisor evaluation submitted to the DCT by the deadline set by the DCT.

In order to be regarded as formal practica training; however, the student would need to register for Independent Study. In many cases; however, the student simply wishes to accrue additional training and experience without having to register for credits. If that is the case; the training experience still requires a contractual agreement meeting training criteria, and the student would list this as additional training on their curriculum vita, but not formal Practicum hours.

When the additional training experience or Practicum involves clinical services in which regular supervision is required, it is expected that the agency will provide acceptable

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supervision by a licensed psychologist as required in (IV.A.4). Furthermore, a contractual agreement between the site and the university is required.