The UC Davis CAARE Center Internship has 4 tracks: CAARE Center Only Track; Trauma Adolescent Mental Illness (TAMI) Track; Child Maltreatment & Neurodevelopment (CMN) Track; Juvenile Justice Foresnic Psychology (JJFP) Track; and TAMI Systems Track.
The CAARE Center serves children and caregivers with a history of physical abuse, sexual abuse, and/or neglect. Services include individual and group therapy, Parent-Child Interaction Therapy, Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, psychological evaluations, child welfare evaluations, and consultation to local public agencies. The CAARE Center only track is a full-time, one-year psychology internship where the interns receives training and experience in assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning, treatment delivery, case presentation, cultural competence, consultation, and ethics. Interns learn PCIT; TF-CBT and conduct court ordered evaluations. The importance of empirically-based knowledge in these areas is emphasized.
The TAMI track has two slots. The TAMI track is a collaboration between the CAARE Center and Department of Psychiatry, SacEDAPT with a focus on treatment of trauma in youth (and their families) who are in the early stages of a psychotic illness. Interns will spend 50% of their time at the CAARE Center and 50% at SacEDAPT. Interns will be learn TF-CBT; CBT-P; and the gold standard of assessment for psychotic disorders.
The CMN track is a collaboration between the CAARE Center and the MIND Institute. Interns will be trained in PCIT and neurodevelopmental assessments.
The JJFP track is a collaboration with the CAARE Center and Sacramento County Probation Department. Interns will be trained in TF-CBT and forensic evaluations.
TAMI Systems Track is at SacEDAPT full time and provides services with system involved youth with both trauma and psychosis.
Upon completion of the training program, our graduates are expected to be able to competently assess and treat children with a variety of presenting concerns, and in particular to have expertise in working with those children that have a history of trauma exposure.
Special encouragement is given to those applicants with a strong interest in in the field of trauma; severe mental illness; neurodevelpmental disorders; and juvenile justice. For further information, please see our brochure located at www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/children/clinical_services/CAARE/internships.