Clientele includes students, faculty, and staff. There is a high percentage of nontraditional age and married students. The percentages of ethnic minority and international clients at UCC are similar to their representation in the university population. Interns have the opportunity to provide couples counseling and to conduct couples communication workshops. Interns colead at least one therapy group with a senior staff member.
Interns supervise the clinical work of doctoral students in the counseling psychology program.
Interns have opportunities to provide consultation and outreach services to academic departments and campus organizations. A research consultation group is offered, as well as time allocated to work on your dissertation or other research, initiate new projects, and prepare paper presentations and manuscripts for publication. Interns selected for the UCC Internship with DFPM Rotation will provide psychological services for 10 hours a week in a primary health care clinic serving the Salt Lake City community. Patients present with a wide variety of psychological and behavioral medicine issues. Special populations include patients from low income households, single parents, patients with dual diagnosis and multiple problem issues, and geriatric patients.