The League Education and Treatment Center (LETC) has been improving the lives of children and adults with emotional and developmental disabilities for over 60 years. At the League, every individual is a success story waiting to begin. Our vision is to discover and nurture each person's strengths and abilities. We believe everyone deserves the opportunity to succeed in school, in program, in the community and in life. The Doctoral Psychology Internship Program at the LETC was designed to reflect this mission and provide interns with valuable, in-depth experience in order to become competent clinicians in working with children, adolescents, and young adults with special needs. The internship includes comprehensive and sequential training in the requisite diagnostic and treatment skills needed to work within an educational treatment setting.
The aim of the internship is to nurture the development of competent clinical practitioners, capable of functioning in a dynamic and challenging treatment and school setting. The internship program accomplishes this aim by providing a structured and supportive training environment in which interns are trained to meet the highest standards of professionalism and ethics as they work collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary team. Interns will develop greater competence in crisis intervention, case management, supervision, program development, and consultation. Interns will build their diagnostic, assessment, and therapeutic intervention skills while conducting their work through a culturally responsive lens.
The LETC internship program is based on the scholar-practitioner model. The program is strongly founded in a humanistic perspective. The program prepares interns to be sensitive to the complexity and needs of the population served. Interns are trained to integrate their observations and case conceptualization of their clients within a social and cultural context. We believe in the continual evolution of each individual’s framework and real-life skills. Training of interns in our facility involves building a foundation by providing comprehensive assessment, treatment planning, and interventions that are culturally responsive and continually informed by relevant research. Interns are trained to deliver top level care as they work within an interdisciplinary team.