Intake Interviewing and Crisis Intervention
All clients are initially interviewed by a professional staff member to determine the need for services and to make an appropriate internal or external referral. Occasionally, clients present with considerable distress. The intake interviewer must use crisis intervention strategies to deal effectively with these clients. All interns participate regularly in standard and emergency intake procedures, initially conducting co-intakes with their respective supervisors and/or other professional staff members.

Psychotherapy
The Counseling Center provides individual, couple, career, and group psychotherapy. Individual and couple services are primarily of a time-limited nature (12 sessions or less). However, for reasons of professional growth and development, interns may provide long-term psychotherapy to selected clients. Clinical staff members may recommend group psychotherapy as the treatment of choice, as an adjunct to individual treatment or as a follow-up modality. Group treatment has no time limit; clients often participate from 6 months to 1 year or more as group members. All interns are expected to work with an average case load of 12 individuals (personal and career) or couples and to co-lead a psychotherapy group throughout the year.

Psychological Assessment
Interns are expected to develop proficiency with the administration and interpretation of a wide range of objective and projective assessment techniques. These tests may be used to assess intelligence, interests, career development, and personality. Interns receive training in how to communicate psychological and career information effectively in assessment reports, case conferences, and inservice training meetings. While a full-time psychometrist administers routine self-report measures, interns usually administer more complex instruments, including intelligence tests and projective measures.

Outreach
Counseling Center staff offer numerous structured, theme-oriented workshops and groups each semester. These outreach activities include training in assertiveness, social skills, relationship enhancement, career exploration and development, stress management, and time management. Each intern will have the opportunity to develop and implement a variety of outreach programs for USF audiences upon request or as a primary prevention effort.  

Consultation/Liaison Relations
Counseling Center staff provide psychological consultation to University divisions and units, including the Student Affairs central office, University Police, Residence Services, Athletics, Student Health Services, Academic Support and Accomodations, Campus Recreation, International Student and Scholar Services, and other administrative and academic units. The Center's College Liaison Program provides consultation services to University administrators, faculty and staff. Interns who have an interest in organizational consultation may work together with staff as an Intern Consultant to the leadership and staff of other USF programs and departments.

Practicum Supervision
The Counseling Center offers supervised practicum training experiences to students from USF academic departments and/or other universities. Interns are encouraged to supervise practicum students during the year. Professional staff, in turn, supervise the interns performing these activities.

Professional Development and Training Seminars
Interns attend several ongoing seminars in the Counseling Center and in our affiliated training agencies. Counseling Center seminars include group psychotherapy, supervision of supervision, career counseling, organizational/psychotherapeutic issues and assessment. Weekly inservice and case referral meetings may involve case presentations, discussions of specialty or interest areas, and specific issues identified by the staff. A primary didactic training experience includes a four-month, weekly seminar co-sponsored with the James A. Haley Veterans Hospital and the Florida Mental Health Institute. Staff and consultants present on a variety of topics, typically including psychopathology, psychological assessment, psychotherapy, crisis intervention, brief treatment modalities, consultation, eating disorders, psychopharmacology, cognitive-behavioral approaches to weight control and stress management, sports psychology, and cultural and gender issues. In addition, the USF Psychology Department, the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine and local/state professional associations also offer colloquia and workshops throughout the year. Interns are encouraged to pursue other professional development activities, including attendance at workshops and conferences and reading the psychological literature. Relatedly, the training staff recognize that interns often need to complete their dissertations. Consistent with this, interns may allot professional development time to work toward satisfactory completion of the dissertation.

Administrative Activities
Interns are required to attend weekly staff meetings, in which staff discuss administration issues. All interns actively participate in the Training Committee and in their own bi-weekly administrative meeting with the training director. Each intern is assigned to the Committee on Diversity for part of the year. Interns must maintain appropriate case records and progress notes. Interns are included in most decision-making processes and are encouraged to express their views.

Research
While interns are not required to conduct scientific research, they may participate in any ongoing research at the Counseling Center or explore their own research ideas and activities. Counseling Center research may include evaluations of client demographics, community needs analysis, client assessment, and program and training evaluation. Interns may dedicate some of their professional development time to the completion of their dissertation research