Program Information At CSP-SAC interns will be expected to participate in treatment planning, individual therapy, group treatment, and pre-release planning. Additionally, the following is expected:
- Initial caseload assignments are consistent with the intern’s professional developmental level.
- Thirty to fifty percent of the total hours per week are spent in face-to-face delivery of services.
- Intensive supervision of case activity is provided.
- Interns act as co-consultants with a supervisor. As competence increases, intern responsibilities and independence will also increase.
- Interns are encouraged to consult with each other with or without the presence of a supervisor, as needed.
- Interns are provided time to participate in weekly didactic training
- Additionally, each site provides regular in-service educational opportunities (available to all interns), and includes interns in administrative meetings, case conferences, and intake conferences.
- Interns receive a minimum of one hour of individual supervision and a minimum of two hours of group supervision per week;
- Interns present journal articles after case presentations, and facilitate discussions that relate the significance of the article to practicing social workers. (Journal articles must be pre-approved by the intern’s supervisor and, have been published in a reputable journal within the last two-years.)
- Work experience obtained by working with patients in different levels of care (may include two outpatient programs, or a combination of an outpatient program with an inpatient program).
- Work experience in programs treating mental disorders, combined with programs that include patients who also have a developmental or neuro-cognitive disability in addition to a mental disorder.
- Work experience in special patient populations in restricted settings (e.g., EOP ASU, PSU) combined with a rotation performed in a non-restricted (“mainline”) setting.