The objective under this goal is for interns to develop competence in a select number of the areas listed, but not all, including projective testing, career counseling, couple's therapy, research in applied settings, supervision of trainees, consultation, and certain areas of clinical competence such as eating disorders, sexual abuse, stress management, sexual assault, or drug and alcohol treatment. Interns are welcome to develop areas of special competence not on this list, since this list was not designed to be exhaustive. We strive to provide training experiences that represent a healthy balance of diversity and depth. This balance is represented in our program by a hierarchy of training emphases, structured according to a combination of professional relevance, applicability to a variety of settings, and areas of agency emphasis and expertise. Though expansive in scope, our program is integrative in focus.
Training emphasizes personal integration of as well as exposure to new information and ideas.
A secondary and pervasive goal of our Program is the development of professionalism. As a part of the development of professionalism interns are learning a process of self evaluation of their work and its effectiveness, through supervision, didactic seminars, case conferences, and collaborative work with other professionals. While the objectives described under the overarching goal above primarily represent discrete areas of clinical competence, the goals and objectives related to professionalism described above, cut across clinical areas, and are not seen as discrete areas to be evaluated by only one supervisor. In pursuit of the objective of ethical responsibility, interns are encouraged not only to know and understand the laws and ethical principles and other guidelines which guide our profession, but to demonstrate an ability to apply them. Interns are encouraged to embrace a process of thoughtful ethical decision making, and are aided in the process by each of their supervisors, as well as through initial ethical and legal issues training which takes place at the end of the orientation period.