Intervention Rotation Experiences

1. Pediatric/Child Clinical Psychology Outpatient Program: Interns will participate in the outpatient therapy program for the entire training year.  All faculty members supervise this experience.
   
   Individual, family, and group therapies are provided for a broad range of psychological problems.  Intervention opportunities are balanced between pediatric psychology and traditional child clinical experiences. Many of the pediatric psychology cases are follow-up appointments resulting from consultation/liaison activities.  Examples include medical adherence difficulties (e.g., diabetes), pain management (e.g., headache, recurrent abdominal pain), adjustment to transplant, encopresis, and enuresis.  Interns also gain exposure to ADHD, anxiety and mood disorders including obsessive-compulsive disorder and bipolar disorder, family adjustment issues include divorce and sibling issues, as well as early childhood issues such as child behavior management, parent-child interaction problems and pediatric feeding disorders and growth deficiency.   If an intern has a special area of interest, cases may be selected to help foster further growth in that area.  Interns participate in individual, family and group based treatment modalities.
   
2. Behavior Consultation Clinic: Interns will participate in the Behavior Consultation Clinic for six months.
   
   This clinic is designed to provide short-term services for parents and children ages birth to six years for a wide range of behavioral and developmental concerns such as parent-child conflict, sleep problems, toileting concerns, daycare difficulties, noncompliance and sibling rivalry.  This unique clinic was developed to meet the needs of pediatricians in the area.  A preventative, developmentally-based treatment model is applied.  The clinic is on Friday mornings with live supervision provided during the entire clinic via a one-way mirror.  Appointments are 45 minutes and therapy focuses on short-term, goal-oriented techniques.  Interns frequently interact with child care providers in order to implement recommendations for that setting. Interns also have teaching opportunities as medical residents frequently observe behind the mirror.
   
3. Psychoeducational parent training groupsare provided to help address common disruptive behaviors associated with ADHD, such as noncompliance and aggression. Child social skills groups provide help with poor peer relationships. Interns gain experience coordinating and leading each of these groups.  Individualized follow-up treatment for child and family is thereafter available on an as needed basis.  Ongoing consultation and inservice training are also provided.  Interns have the opportunities to follow-up with physicians and school to help ensure implementation of recommendations.