This two semester sequence, (Residency for psychotherapy I and Residency for psychotherapy II) of supervised practicum in the field provides an in-depth face-to-face counseling experience with children, adolescents, adults, couples, groups and families in community agencies, schools, youth centers, and hospitals. This core placement involves direct assessment and intervention work with clients and liaison work with agencies and other health professionals. It also provides ongoing experience in the use of applied psychotherapeutic techniques, assessment, diagnosis, counseling, crisis intervention, and the treatment of individuals in need.
We should emphasize that this clinical experience represents only a part of the learning necessary for the development of expertise in the provision and evaluation of services to individuals, families, groups, and institutions.
Guidelines:
The following guidelines should be followed by all students:
1- The student should select 2 community mental health organizations to do the residency in each semester
2- The student spends 6 hours every week in field work in the two organizations
3- The student is free to select the time of clinical experience and day of training. This is a flexible program
4- The student should make a visit to the desired organization to plan the field work. This should be done before initiating clinical work
5- The student should be actively involved in the daily activities of the mental health organization and needs to participate in the various activities
6- The student needs to take case load in the organization. In the first residency, individual interventions will be the main goal. Every student should work with three different cases that are taken from the 2 organizations.
7- Family and group interventions as well as intervention with complicated cases of children are delayed until residency II. However, the student may act as co-therapists or co-counselors with families and groups in residency I. nevertheless, they could be more involved with families and groups during residency II.
8- He student should write soap reports every week about the work they did, and then should discuss the weekly activities with the clinical instructor.
9- Every week, the student meets with the clinical instructor for supervision. This is usually done either on individual or group setting.
10- At the end of the course, the students submit a written report about three cases that they worked with.
Needed skills for residency:
1- Case management (Interviewing; DSM- IV-TR diagnosis, management of the client (Plan interventions and care and implementation of the plan)
2- Health education
3- Counseling and individual therapy
4- Crisis intervention
5- Drugs surveillance
6- Referral and follow up
7- Attain support and logistics for the client
8- Attending group meetings
9- Attending family meetings
10- Liaison and consultation
11- Participate n the center's activities
- Teacher: Najah Al-khateeb