Child Abuse Internship (CAARE track – 3 positions)
Psychology interns can receive training and supervised experience in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy (TF-CBT), psychological evaluations, child welfare evaluations, intake assessments, individual therapy, and consultation to local agencies. Interns will also select a third focus for their training year, which will serve as their subspecialty for the training year. This will depend on their previous clinical experiences with related clinical presentations (see below for prerequisites for various subspecialty options). Options for the third focus can include: 1) Parenting Training (i.e., the intern would select between training in Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) or Parent Child-CARE (PC-CARE)); 2) Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) Team; 3) Eating Disorder Team; and (4) Treatment and Recovery Program for Addiction in Children and Emerging Adults (TRACE) Team. Most CAARE Center clients range in age from 2 to 18 years, although adults are seen for family treatment, individual therapy, and evaluations. Depending on the type of referrals received, there may also be an opportunity to provide services for 0-5 year olds.
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 TF-CBT and conduct court ordered evaluations. The importance of empirically-based knowledge in these areas is emphasized. As noted above, interns will be able to gain additional experience in one of the aforementioned subspecialities (see brochure for more information). Decisions about which subspeciality matched interns will participate in will be made after match and will be dependent on clinic needs as well as interns' prior experience and training goals.
The CMN track is a collaboration between the CAARE Center and the MIND Institute. Interns will be trained in PCIT or PC-CARE and neurodevelopmental assessments.
The JJFP track is focused on providing evidence-based mental health treatment for systems-involved youth and families. Interns will be trained in TF-CBT, TI-CBTp, and forensic evaluations.
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; neurodevelpmental disorders; and juvenile justice. For further information, please see our brochure located at www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/children/clinical_services/CAARE/internships.
