However, there are broad classes of professional activity which all interns are expected to master during the course of the year. The following categories describe basic professional activities common to most of the rotations. Actual time commitments will vary, but the figures provide an estimated average across the entire year. This training experience includes the assumption of professional responsibility for psychological assessment of a variety of cases. Activities include diagnostic interviewing, intelligence testing, personality testing, and neuropsychological testing.
Interns typically complete two or three psychological evaluations per month.
Cases are selected by supervisors to provide for a range of professional experience. Training is accomplished through direct case supervision and through seminar instruction. Interns are involved in individual, group, and family psychotherapy. Interns carry a full outpatient caseload in Community Services and pick up additional short-term cases on inpatient rotations. Austin State Hospital provides extensive opportunities for training in group psychotherapy.