Counseling Center

The Training Program:

Internship Seminars

Clinical and Professional Issues Seminar

This seminar meets for one and one-half hours per week. All ten of the senior staff alternate presenting information on topics of professional interest. In addition to presentations on clinical topics (e.g., treatment of trauma disorders, couples psychotherapy, emotionally focused therapy), there are also presentations on interns' professional development (e.g., job search tips, dual role relationships). Senior staff present information to the interns, but there is also time for questions and discussion.

Supervision Seminar

This seminar meets for two hours per week. During the first month of internship, interns read and discuss theories of supervision. Starting in the second month, interns begin supervising practicum students, and the seminar switches from the theoretical to the practical. Interns bring in questions, comments, and feelings about their role as supervisors, their relationships to their supervisees, their supervisees' work, and their supervisees' clients. Interns give each other feedback and share common experiences. Seminar leaders also make suggestions and give feedback. Each intern gets some time each week to discuss issues of interest or concern, and interns rotate being the primary focus of discussion and feedback.

Outreach Seminar

This seminar meets for one hour per week for the first nine weeks of the internship. Interns learn how to design and present outreach programs, which culminates in their designing original outreaches. The seminar takes several different forms during the course of the semester. The seminar leader may present theories of student development, interns may jointly brainstorm new outreaches, and interns may share feelings or experiences of particularly successful or particularly difficult outreaches that they have presented.

Consultation Seminar

This seminar meets for one hour per week beginning during the fall semester.. The seminar leader presents detailed models of organizational consultation. Interns serve as consultants to University Housing staff. Interns' participation in the seminar includes assessing their role as consultants, discussing entry and exit issues, and looking at Housing organizational and staff dynamics.

Clinical Assessment Seminar

This seminar meets for one hour per week for the entire year. The first two months of the seminar provides an opportunity for interns to ask questions and receive feedback concerning policy, procedures, assessment, and resources in providing ongoing and crisis counseling to SIUC students. The seminar then switches to a case conference format. Interns show videotape of their individual and couples work with the focus of feedback being on diagnosis, conceptualization, treatment planning, and the efficient and effective use of treatment. Both facilitators and interns share their clinical work through discussions and videotapes.

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