California Psychology Internship CouncilProject Sister Family Services
(909)623-1619
Training and Education Offered by Internship
Please describe your objective in training Predoctoral interms. Please include a brief description of your training program and how it fits within the goals or mission of your agency:
Our objective is to train interns to work with people who have had their lives dramatically altered by the trauma of sexual assault and/or child abuse. All unlicensed interns and staff are required to take our state-approved Advocate Certification class before they can even talk to a client on the phone or in person. We teach the interns how to work from a trauma-informed position keeping the client needs as the central focus. All of our treatment is individualized to the client rather than the client having to conform to one program that is prescribed for all. We have a weekly didactic training that covers topics from suicide assessment to uses of play therapy to gender issues and everything in between and we pull from all types of therapeutic orientations to find what works best for each client, including cognitive behavioral therapy, humanistic therapy, family systems therapy, psychodynamic therapy and so on.
If applicable, describe in detail how the internship training differs from practicum training:
They are very similar
RESPONSIBILITIES AND FUNCTIONS OF PREDOCTORAL INTERNS:
1. Obtain agency-approved Advocate Certification (Sexual Assault Counselor, California evidence code, section 1035.2) and maintain annual continuing education requirements.
2. Participate in 1 hour of individual supervision weekly
3. Participate in 1.5 hours of didactic training weekly
4. Participate in 2 hours of group supervision weekly
5. Participate in 3 hours of case conference monthly
6. Provide crisis counseling both face-face, teletherapy and phone-based.
7. Provide individual and group psychotherapy to children, adolescents and adults.
8. Provide case management and advocacy services.
9. Clinical documentation as required.
10. Carry a caseload of 12 to 14 clients.
Training/Clinical Services Offered:
Assessment, Brief, Consultation, Couple, Crisis, Family, Group, Individual, Inpatient, Long Term, Neuropsych, Other, Outpatient, Psych. Testing
Comments Regarding Theoretical Orientation of Staff
We use the Trauma Symptom Inventory, Trauma Symptom Checklist for Children and the Trauma Symptom Checklist for Young Children to measure clinical outcomes.
- County - Los Angeles
- Contact Person Title - Counseling Services Director
- Contact Person - Rosana Nava, MSW
- Dir. of Training Title - Clinical Supervisor
- Dir. of Training - In Process of Hiring New Psychologist Supervisor as of 8-3-2021
- Last Updated - 03 August 2021
- Participating in CURRENT Match process - Yes
- CAPIC Member Since - 2009
- Region - So. Cal
- Statuses approved by CAPIC
- Half-Time 1 Year - Yes
- Half-Time 2 Years - No
- Full-Time 1 Year - No
- CAPIC Internship Types Available:
- Half-Time 1 Year - Yes
- Half-Time 2 Years - No
- Full-Time 1 Year - No
Primary Location
- Executive Director - Julie Boynton, LCSW
- 363 S. Park Avenue
- Suite 303
- Pomona, CA 91766
- Phone - (909)623-1619
- Fax - (909)623-1619
Training/Clinical Services Offered
- Assessment
- Consultation
- Couple
- Crisis
- Family
- Group
- Individual
- Long Term
- Outpatient
- Other