Each intern participates in a weekly assessment seminar, that includes direct training and experience in the administration, scoring, interpretation and report preparation of a variety of test batteries. Supervision is provided by a licensed psychologist. Predoctoral interns frequently begin their internships without having completed their dissertations. Therefore, four hours per week are allotted to dissertation research. Interns who want to develop or participate in other research programs are welcome to do so.
Senior staff are available for consultation regarding research endeavours.
Additionally, a research-interest group meets weekly and provides interns feedback on ideas and strategies, as well as help in designing research projects. Interns will gain most of their treatment experience providing individual psychotherapy. Clients have a diverse range of problems with widely differing degrees of psychopathology. Interns will provide both long and short term therapy. While interns' initial experiences with couples therapy will most likely be as co-therapists with a senior staff person, as skill is developed, interns may assume the role of primary therapist.