Clinical Field Experience
At our Widener Child Therapy Clinic (WCTC), you will gain invaluable internship experience serving area youth and their families, which will help prepare you for your professional pursuits. As a fourth- or fifth-year clinical psychology doctoral intern – under the supervision of faculty – you will provide contextually-based care to clients and will help manage the administrative operation of the clinic.
Clinic Services
Services offered at the clinic include diagnostic assessment and delivery of therapy to children, adolescents, and families from diverse backgrounds who present with a range of common concerns, including:
- ADHD, behavior problems, aggression
- Learning disabilities and executive functioning difficulties
- Depression and anxiety
- Coping with medical illness
- Family conflict
As a WCTC clinician you will also assess systemic factors that support and undermine families' abilities to engage in treatment, designing and implementing a treatment-engagement plan to bolster participation in meaningful ongoing treatment.
As part of the team, you will also work to identify resources (e.g., medical, legal, economic) available to families, and work with families to connect them with those resources, as needed.
Research
Through the clinic, you will have the opportunity to engage in a number of applied research projects designed to evaluate the use of empirically supported treatments with diverse and underserved populations.