Psych Practicum Student

**Who We Are**

Pacific Clinics is California's largest community-based nonprofit provider of behavioral and mental health services and support. Our team of more than 2,000 employees speak 22 languages and are dedicated to offering hope and unlocking the full potential of individuals and families through culturally responsive, trauma-informed, research-based services for individuals and families from birth to older adults.

**Who We Serve**

Pacific Clinics serves children, transitional age youth, families, adults, and older adults. We offer a full range of mental and behavioral health services, foster care and social services, housing, continuing adult education and early childhood education programs to Medi-Cal eligible individuals and families throughout Alameda, Contra Costa, Fresno, Kings, Los Angeles, Madera, Orange, Placer, Riverside, Sacramento, San Bernardino, San Francisco, Santa Clara, Solano, Stanislaus, Stockton, Tulare and Ventura Counties.

Pay: $21.00 per hour

The Pacific Clinics Internship Program provides experiential training from a broad, generalist perspective with the goal of developing Interns’ basic competency to provide mental health services in community-based settings.

The Internship over the past several years has moved toward a model of evidence-based psychotherapy practice, that includes elements of the disciplined inquiry and local clinical scientist models. Over the year the Interns solidify their theoretical formulations and learn to examine the applicability of empirically supported treatments to the local multicultural target populations served by the agency. Interns are challenged and trained in critical thinking and observation skills. They learn to focus their interventions, while examining the assumptions and limitations of those interventions with our diverse consumers so they can articulate a range of practices, including empirically supported therapy relationships that might address the problems they encounter.

Accordingly, Practicum Students need to develop a range of skills, attitudes, ethics, values, sensitivities, and compassion that will make them useful and protective of the people they serve in our community. The Practicum Student experience is designed to teach, model, provide experience, and verify professional psychology competencies.

**STUDENT WILL LEARN AND BE EXPOSED TO**:

- A wide variety of pathologies from our socio-economically diverse and multi-cultural catchment area.
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- Treatment (EBP) such as Seeking Safety or Aggression Replacement Training (ART).
- Case assignments that match the training needs, interests, and competency level of the practicum student.
- A broad training experience which, combined with a rich mixture of supervision, case conferences, and multidisciplinary team treatment, provides an excellent atmosphere for skill development and professional growth.
- Supervisors who have a variety of theoretical orientations including cognitive behavioral, psychodynamic, and trans-theoretical. The agency follows a psychosocial rehabilitation model for recovery.
- Students may provide individual therapy, initial assessments, psycho-educational groups, and case specific outcome measures.

**PRACTICUM PROGRAM RESPONSIBILITIES/REQUIREMENTS**
- Goal for the practicum placement is for 2/3 of the time to be direct service
- The practicum program is either 15 hours/week or 20 hours/week, depending on the graduate institution training affiliation agreement.
- The students receive a minimum of 1 hour of individual face to face supervision per week with a clinician who is licensed or waivered.
- The practicum students are involved in a “supervision of supervision” training experience throughout their training and received one hour of supervision from a psychology intern.
- Practicum students are required to review audiotape or videotape at least 2 times per evaluation period.
- Practicum students will receive direct supervision at least one time per evaluation period.

**SERVICE DELIVERY RESPONSIBITLIES**:

- Conducts family-centered, strengths-based, culturally competent individualized intakes / assessments gathering information from family, consumer, significant other and involved agencies in the office or in the field as appropriate; Includes healthcare, substance abuse, co-occurring disorders, employment or housing, as appropriate, in treatment plans.
- Completes Service and Coordination Plans, progress notes and other DMH required documentation and billing within two to three business days of service delivery and meets the standards of the Department of Mental Health Short/Doyle Medi-Cal, Pacific Clinics and its funding sources.
- Provides rehabilitative services to clients and/or their families which might include assistance in restoring or maintaining a client’s functional skills, daily living skills, social skills, and linking up to needed community services and support resources.
- Provides outreach, advocacy, and rehabilita