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Internship
The Psychotherapy Training Institute currently works with 7 area graduate schools in providing second year Masters Degree students with field placement/field practicum and internship opportunities. Our goal is to provide hands on training to those pursuing graduate education in marriage and family therapy, social work, counseling or clinical psychology.
Interns at Samaritan will provide psychotherapeutic services to various client populations under the supervision of a licensed mental health professional. Services are provided to individuals, families, couples and groups.
Interns will obtain training in the implementation of both long and short-term treatment models, as well as occasional use of crisis intervention techniques. Students will be addressing issues including, but not limited to mental health; substance and alcohol abuse; trauma; bereavement and disability.
Interns will be responsible for client intake, clinical assessment, and development of treatment plans, necessary referral and termination. They will attend individual and group supervision on a weekly basis, consisting of case presentation, clinical process and awareness of different treatment modalities.
This requires that students are here for a minimum of one academic year if not a full calendar year. This ensures that we are providing continuity of care to our clients and not transitioning and terminating more frequently than would be therapeutic.
We strongly discourage students from interviewing if they have had little or no client contact. For some programs this means that we only take second year students who have already completed a first practicuum/field placement or internship. We have found over the course of time the learning curve is too anxiety provoking for those who've not yet had client contact and that it is a disservice to the student to put them in that setting early on.
While the Training Institute here remains committed to providing intensive supervision and solid grounding in theory, in an effort to ensure quality development of counseling skills, our clients remain our first priority.
For more information contact Jenness Clairmont via email
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