DOCTORAL INTERNSHIP
MISSION STATEMENT & GOALS
The primary mission of LSU Health Shreveport is to teach, heal, and discover, in order to advance the well-being of the region and beyond. The mission of the LSU Health Shreveport Children's Center is to maximize the potential of children, infancy through 15 years of age, throughout the Ark-La-Tex by providing diagnostic assessment and treatment, supporting and educating families and service providers, and offering technical assistance and outreach to community agencies.
The Children’s Center Doctoral Internship in Health Service Psychology program's mission is to train doctoral level interns using efficient, high quality, evidence-based mental health practices in order to prepare them for dynamic roles as psychologists in the health care system. The goal of the doctoral internship program is to provide interns with training within the multidisciplinary LSU Health Shreveport system as well as the community at large. By providing robust and intensive training, we can actualize the mission of Children’s Center and that of LSU Health Shreveport.
The Children’s Center Doctoral Internship in Health Service Psychology is a significant expression of LSU’s ongoing, central commitment to training graduate students in the field of psychology. An important feature of our internship is that while service is a key part of the internship program, the program’s first commitment is to training. The following are our program aims:
Aim 1: Interns will gain the clinical knowledge and skills needed for entry-level positions as professional psychologists.
Competencies:
- Assessment: Interns will be able to conduct assessments using a variety of information sources, develop a comprehensive formulation of the client’s difficulties, and make appropriate treatment recommendations;
- Intervention: Interns will be able to maintain a treatment relationship that facilitates effective client outcomes, and to implement several types of evidence-based psychotherapy and psychological interventions, at a level consistent with beginning professional practice.
- Communication & Interpersonal Skills: Interns will demonstrate effective interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills with clients and coworkers.
- Consultation & Interprofessional/Interdisciplinary Skills: Interns will be familiar with concepts of consultation, and demonstrate beginning skills in this area;
- Supervision: Interns will be familiar with concepts of supervision, and demonstrate beginning skills.
Aim 2: Interns will demonstrate knowledge and skills for research-informed, professional, ethical, and culturally sensitive practice as psychologists.
Competencies:
- Research: Interns will demonstrate critical thinking of research and integration of science into practice.
- Professional Values, Attitudes & Behaviors: Interns will demonstrate professionalism in all aspects of their role.
