Intervention is considered foundational to the training experience. It is a core experience including an ongoing caseload of adult, adolescent, or child patients. The psychology intern is expected to obtain a minimum of 10 face-to-face patient contact hours (25% of time) per week. Patient contact hours for this component accumulate through a variety of treatment modalities, depending on site placement. Potential modalities include: inpatient or outpatient, individual, group, couples and family intervention, and assessment administration. The intern’s performance is assessed at the outset of the internship and patients are assigned consistent with the intern’s developmental readiness. As proficiency increases, interns are assigned more complex and challenging cases. Interns conduct co-intervention and participate in direct observation or other training opportunities with their primary and/or secondary supervisors when possible.
