Couples are eligible for therapy at UCS, as long as one partner is enrolled. The number of clients requesting this service is increasing. Interns may work with as many as three or four couples over the year. Each staff person is on call about every 12 weeks. Most situations can be handled over the telephone, but there may be instances where an active intervention may have to be made.
Senior staff are always readily available for backup and supervision.
Also, on the Academic Campus, interns and senior staff rotate walk-in crisis duty. During this time the counselor is responsible for managing situations posed by individuals coming into the agency with emergency needs. C. Multicultural Training Training in multicultural issues assists interns and other UCS trainees in recognizing, understanding, and appreciating the impact of sociocultural differences on mental health work. Multicultural Case Conferences. Trainees will have the opportunity to present for discussion their work around diversity issues in a series of multicultural case conferences.