AREAS OF CONCENTRATION
In addition to your training as a generalist, CAPS offers interns the opportunity to choose an area of concentration. The areas of concentration allow interns to gain specialized knowledge, skill, and experience to meet their own needs and interests.
Sport Psychology Concentration
The Sport Psychology Concentration will provide interns the opportunity to work with student athletes providing individual therapy in a clinical setting, provide outreach and programming focused on topics related to mental resiliency, performance, motivation, and injury recovery. Interns will focus on relevant literature that supports the well-being of student athletes in order to use best practices for group facilitation and clinical therapy. Interns will attend weekly Performance meetings in conjunction with the opportunity to attend the Athletics Consultation Team and Student Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) meetings. Interns that are interested and selected to be a part of the Sport Psychology Concentration will also work alongside the SIUC Athletics Liaison.
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) Program
The DBT Concentration provides interns with:
- The opportunity to work with clients who would benefit from the DBT program. Typically, these clients present with trauma, impulse control disorders, and personality disorder characteristics.
- The chance to co-facilitate a weekly DBT skills group.
- Supervision and clinical readings to deepen your knowledge of DBT.
- Weekly DBT Consultation Team Meeting with other members of the DBT Treatment Team.
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Eating Disorder Outpatient Program (EDOP)
The EDOP concentration provides interns with:
- The opportunity to work with clients who present with disordered eating and/or meet the criteria for an eating disorder.
- The chance to facilitate a didactic group for individuals with food/body image concerns.
- Weekly meetings with the EDOP team. These meetings alternate between meeting as a multi-disciplinary team alongside medical staff (physician, nurse, and dietician), and meeting as a consultation team to discuss articles cases.
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Alcohol and Other Drugs (AOD) & Brief Intervention
The AOD & Brief Intervention concentration provides interns with:
- The opportunity to provide therapy to individuals who meet the criteria for a substance use disorder or who are at risk for developing substance use disorders.
- Assessing and responding to suicidal ideation (SI) and homicidal ideation (HI) within a brief intervention framework.
- The opportunity to learn how to identify risk factors, warning signs, and protective factors through targeted assessment questions.
- Practicing and developing collaborative safety plans, identifying coping strategies, and connecting clients with appropriate levels of care
- Instruction and supervision related to evaluation, motivational interviewing, and work with mandated AOD and mandated SI/HI clients.
- Weekly consultation meeting with other members of the AOD team.
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Interdisciplinary Health Care (IHC)
The IHC concentration provides interns with:
- The opportunity to gain experience in health service psychology in an integrated health setting.
- The chance to coordinate mental health treatment with multi-disciplinary providers to guide treatment decisions and improve outcomes.
- Supervision related to the ways in which psychological science and practice intersect with other healthcare disciplines
- Experience applying your knowledge via an educational presentation to Student Health Services staff.
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Neurodiversity-Affirming Clinical Practice
The Neurodiversity-Affirming Clinical Practice provides interns with: The opportunity to focus on an approach to mental health and clinical care that recognizes neurological differences—such as autism, ADHD, dyslexia, dyspraxia, and others. Interns will assist in treating anxiety, depression, trauma, burnout, or sensory distress as well as build coping, communication, and self-advocacy skills within a skills-based group setting for neurodivergent students. Create supportive environments for the student through systems-focused interventions. Weekly consultation with other members of Neurodiversity-Affirming Treatment Team.
If you have a niche not represented above, the training staff is also open to considering additional areas of concentration on a case-by-case basis.
WORKING AT STUDENT HEALTH SERVICES
Student Health Services (SHS) is a state-of-the-art ambulatory health care facility. SHS stands committed to providing affirming care to students of all backgrounds and identities and emphasizes a commitment to LGBTQ Health as demonstrated by their recognized status as an LGBTQ Healthcare Equality Leader.
Interdisciplinary care is a central value of SHS. As a CAPS Intern, you will have the opportunity to work collaboratively with an array of health care providers. CAPS Interns have the opportunity to collaborate with staff and providers from the following departments:
Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) maintains two files for each intern. At a minimum, CAPS retains files for 10 years following the completion of the internship in accord with federal, state, and institutional policies regarding record keeping and privacy.
The training file is digitally stored on a network shared folder maintained by the Intern Training Director. The training file includes materials such as:
- AAPI applications and offer letters
- Dates of training
- Work samples
- Certificates of completion
- Evaluation forms
- Letters to intern’s academic program
- Intern complaints and/or grievances
- Due process documentation
The Personnel file is kept by Human Resources and includes materials such as:
- Employment Paperwork (including notice of appointment, background check, PRF information, W-4, Electronic Deposit Authorization form, Statement Concerning Your Employment in a Job Not Covered by Social Security, SURS Annuity Status, Post-Offer Optional Invitation to Identify: Veteran and Disability Status)
- Confidentiality Agreement
- Acknowledgment of Mandated Reporter Status-Adult Abuse and Domestic Violence
- DCFS Mandated Reporter Status Form
- OSHA and HIPAA training forms
- Copy of AAPIC application
- Copies of annual training – Ethics, Sexual Harassment, and VAWA
