Duke CAPS Training Program is an APA-accredited program based on the health service psychologist training model. The CAPS doctoral internship program prepares psychology graduate students for the generalist independent practice of health service psychology in university mental health settings and other settings serving emerging adults.
The program emphasizes experiential clinical learning and incorporates evidence-based, local clinical, and scholarly research into its interventions. The interventions include assessment, crisis, individual and group psychotherapy, community engagement, workshops, advocacy, and mental health consultation. Service activities are balanced with seminars, supervision, colloquia, clinical teams, and professional development activities.
CAPS affirms and provides opportunities to increase awareness and knowledge of human diversity at the micro and macro levels of intervention. Training activities are designed to promote the acquisition of critical thinking skills related to individuals, environments, cultures, and systems and to develop culturally responsive psychological interventions.
Aims
- Foster the intern’s professional identity as a Health Service Psychologist, which includes rapid entry into a professional work setting.
- Develop the intern’s assessment, individual, group, crisis, workshop, and mental health consultation skills with service users.
- Develop the intern’s outreach, interdepartmental collaboration, and community engagement skills.
- Increase the intern’s awareness and knowledge of human diversity at the micro and macro levels of intervention and their ability to develop culturally responsive psychological interventions.
- Increase the intern’s awareness and knowledge of psychologists' ethical principles and how these principles are applied in a service setting.