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Competencies

Competencies

Training Goals: The Practitioner-Scholar Model is the foundation from which our program competencies arise. The Pine Rest Internship is designed to train pre-doctoral interns to practice at a high clinical and professional level. We expect that graduates of the program will be professionals whose clinical practice is informed by the utilization of scientific research and the reflection that comes from a desire for integration.

The goal is to develop interns from the level of student to independent practitioner. We utilize APA’s nine profession-wide competencies, as well as one program-specific competency: Spirituality.

 

Research

    • Seek scientific knowledge
    • Evaluate treatment outcomes
    • Present research to varied audiences
    • Participate in research for program development or organizational quality improvement

Ethical and Legal Standards

    • Apply knowledge of ethics and law
    • Manage and document patient care
    • Manage patient risk

Individual and Cultural Diversity

    • Exhibit knowledge of individual and cultural diversity
    • Demonstrate sensitivity to patient diversity issues
    • Demonstrate awareness of own cultural, ethnic, and faith values

Professional Values, Attitudes, and Behavior

    • Use positive coping strategies
    • Manage time and administrative tasks
    • Exhibit integrity, accountability, and concern for the welfare of others

Communication and Interpersonal Skills

    • Develop and maintain patient rapport
    • Develop and maintain effective working relationships
    • Communicate clearly and appropriately in written and oral form with patients, collagues, and other health professionals

Assessment

    • Formulate diagnoses
    • Conceptualize cases
    • Select and administer assessments
    • Interpret assessment results

Intervention

    • Develop treatment goals
    • Use empirically supported treatments
    • Use counter-transference in therapy

Supervision

    • Seek and effectively use supervision
    • Provide group and individual supervision
    • Manage group project

Consultation and Interprofessional/Interdisciplinary Skills

    • Consult collaterally across disciplines
    • Develop and manage referrals
    • Develop and deliver outreach presentations for multiple types of audiences and purposes

Spirituality

    • Demonstrate knowledge of faith integration theories and methods
    • Integrate faith issues in case conceptualization
    • Knowledge of religion and spiritual expression
    • Apply faith integration interventions

Objectives

1. Competence in Professional Conduct and Ethics

  • Develop and Maintain Effective Working Relationships
  • Use Positive Coping Strategies
  • Manage and Document Patient Care
  • Manage Time and Administrative Tasks
  • Apply Knowledge of Ethics and Law

2. Competence in Scholarly Inquiry and Supervision

  • Seek Scientific Knowledge
  • Seek and Effectively Use Supervision
  • Demonstrate Knowledge of Supervision Models and Issues

3. Competence in Diversity and Faith Integration

  • Demonstrate Sensitivity to Patient Diversity Issues
  • Demonstrate Awareness of Own Cultural, Ethnic, and Faith Values
  • Demonstrate Knowledge of Faith Integration Theories and Methods
  • Integrate Faith Issues in Case Conceptualization

4. Competence in Psychological Assessment

  • Formulate Diagnoses
  • Conceptualize Cases
  • Select and Administer Assessments
  • Interpret Assessment Results
  • Write Reports and Provide Feedback

5. Competence in Treatment Intervention and Outcomes

  • Develop and Maintain Patient Rapport
  • Manage Patient Risk
  • Develop Treatment Goals
  • Use Empirically Supported Treatments
  • Apply Faith Integration Intervention(s)
  • Use Counter-Transference in Therapy
  • Prepare for and Facilitate Group Therapy
  • Evaluate Treatment Outcomes

6. Competence in Consultation & Outreach

  • Consult Collaterally
  • Develop and Manage Referrals
  • Develop and Deliver Outreach Presentations

The internship at Pine Rest is designed to “meet interns where they are at” with regard to professional development. Initial assessment of skills is followed by personalized goal setting, and then evaluation of those goals.

Interns are expected to begin at an entry level of practice skill, then advance in competence throughout the year, with achievement of intermediate or advanced skill levels upon completion of internship. Internship programming facilitates this process of development through case conference and professional development seminars, in addition to the assignment of progressively more complex clinical cases. Interns are expected to achieve gradual movement toward the independent practice of psychology.

At orientation, initial intern skill level is assessed across a broad range of clinical and professional competencies.