Virginia Treatment Center for Children Pre-doctoral Internship in ...

Seminars and ClinicsA variety of didactic and experiential seminars are offered to interns at VTCC. Theseinclude:Family Therapy Clinic/Supervision: This weekly supervision clinic utilizes amultisystemic model of family therapy and reviews structural, strategic, Bowenian, andother therapeutic approaches. Other topics in family therapy are offered, depending onthe interests and training needs of the interns, and includes guest speakers on variousevidence-based family treatment models. Co-led by Jennine Moritz, Ph.D., and aPsychology Post-Doctoral Fellow.Assessment Seminar: This seminar includes a didactic portion that covers topics suchas administration, scoring, and interpretation of the Rorschach, empirically validatedassessment of specific disorders including trauma, anxiety, nonverbal learningdisabilities, autistic spectrum disorders, etc., as well as a peer supervision portion inwhich interns take turns presenting protocols from assessments they are activelyworking on. Seminar meets twice per month, with more intensive time in the summerspent on Rorschach training. Led by Debbie Blackburn, Ph.D. and a Psychology Post-Doctoral Fellow.Individual Psychotherapy and Supervision Seminar: This seminar meetstwice/month, and utilizes case presentation and discussion as the primary teachingstrategy. Initially, focus is on psychotherapy skills. As the year progresses, models ofsupervision and application of supervision techniques in the seminar are an additionalfocus. The goals of this seminar are to explore the application of research findings tocase conceptualizations and treatment planning, to integrate the role of the therapeuticrelationship in therapy with the principles and practice of evidence-based treatment, togain experience in giving and receiving (and integrating) supportive feedback, and tolearn and practice various models of supervision. Co-led by Julie Linker, Ph.D., andKate Macie, Ph.D.,Multidisciplinary Child Mental Health Series: This seminar series meets weekly.Through most of the year, it is attended by psychology interns, psychiatry fellows, andsocial work interns, and provides an opportunity for cross-disciplinary training.Occasionally, specific seminars are provided to psychology interns only. Topics aretaught by Psychology, Psychiatry, and Social Work faculty. In addition to the followingseminars, special topics in Child Mental Health are presented, including sessions onMotivational Interviewing, Psychopharmacology with Children and Adolescents, andvarious evidence-based treatments for various disorders.Ethics Seminars: These seminars provide an overview of training in professionalstandards and ethics that are likely to be encountered in a child-serving mental healthfacility, and includes discussions of ethical and legal standards from the perspectives ofmultiple disciplines. It also includes a session provided only to psychology interns for