2017-2018 Practicum Brochure - Doctoral Program

Can students tape sessions with clients using an intervention (not assessment or testin J ) with an informed consent? Yes No . 7 he referring agency must also provide written consent to permit the student to tape sessions. Number of hours per week required: DESCRIBE SPECIFIC SITE REQUIREMENTS: SHORT PROGRAM DESCRIPTION (250 words or less): CLINICAL DESCRIPTION OF PROGRAM Client Population(s): Treatment Modality: Assessment Types: Theoretical Orientation: Each year, several hundred children enter the child welfare system due to abuse, abandonment or neglect. As the local Community-Based Care (CBC) lead agency for Broward and Palm Beach Counties, ChildNet manages a network of child welfare services that provide foster care, adoption and family preservation services for the more than 4,400 children in care and their caregivers. ChildNet's Clinical Practicum and Internship Program provides clients we serve with individual, couples, and family therapy. In addition, students provide children and adolescents with psychological and psycho-educational evaluations, facilitate therapeutically supervised visits, and attend/testify in dependency court hearings in which students can become qualified as expert witnesses. ✔ 15-20 hours Mandatory Training Sessions: Required Training Prerequisites: Mandatory: Students who have successfully completed the first year of coursework and who are in good standing in the Psy.D. Program are eligible to apply for practicum placement. Attendance at specific meetings: Other requirements: Clinical training is scheduled to provide increasing levels of clinical responsibility and to train students in empirically supported approaches to assessment and treatment. Students should carefully record all clinical hours from the beginning of their training. List specific evening hours required: # Direct clinical contact hours/week: Direct client contact for assessment or treatment, telephone contacts, case conferences, individual and group supervision, scoring of test protocols, and time devoted to maintaining clinical records and writing reports should all be recorded. Supervision Requirements (e.g., individual, group, time, day): Children and adolescents in foster care Eclectic/Integrative psychotherapy Individual, couples, and family therapy Psychological and psycoh-educational evaluations 052