Different sites provide opportunities for different types of assessment experience. At Moffitt Cancer Center, Behavioral Medicine, and Rehab Solutions interns conduct neuropsychological assessments. The Morning Star School, Child and Family Psychology Program, and Hillsborough County School placements provide experience in learning, educational, intellectual, and personality assessment. The Psychosocial Health Program, in line with its behavioral orientation, provides opportunities for applied behavioral analysis. Given their systemic focus, evaluation in the Banyan Center and Refugee Resettlement placements are more broadly defined, encompassing family dynamics and life context.
Most interns gain experience with many assessment instruments.
Interns also have the opportunity to become proficient in a variety of psychotherapeutic change strategies. Each setting will offer different intervention strategies based on the population served. By choosing sites carefully, interns can obtain experience with a wide variety of intervention strategies and theoretical orientations. For example at Children's Crisis Stabilization Unit interns are trained in brief crisis intervention, problem-focused individual strategies, supportive therapy, and discharge planning. In the Child and Family Psychology Program, play and family therapy is provided, as is the opportunity to conduct co-therapy with the psychologist supervisor.