These interns do a portion of their psychological testings in CDC with special focus on diagnosis and treatment planning for the developmentally delayed and learning disabled child and adolescent. Testing with infants and toddlers is also offered. These interns also perform consultations in inpatient and outpatient pediatric areas. The objective of this rotation is not only to develop the diagnostic skills of the intern with these groups of children but also to learn the role of the consultation psychologist in such a multi-disciplinary unit. The objectives of this rotation include acquiring increased skills in neuropsychodiagnostic assessment, consultation, and therapy with cases found in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.
Supervision is abundant and includes a variety of models.
Each intern receives between four and six individual supervisions during each week of training. Psychotherapy, psychodiagnostic testing and ward involvement are all intensively supervised. For example, for an average individual therapy outpatient caseload of ten hours an intern will typically have three supervisors. The interns have two sets of weekly seminars given by psychologists and psychiatrists of the department, and by several invited professionals who are considered experts in their specialties. Seminars are wide ranging in both content and philosophy.