SUPERVISION

At the beginning of the internship year, the Psychology Internship Training Committee assigns each intern two primary supervisors, one for each of two training sites. These supervisors are responsible for the training of the intern throughout the year. Responsibilities of the primary supervisors are to: (1) review the intern's previous training, identifying areas of strength and deficiency; (2) utilize this information in organizing intern's training activities; (3) insure that the intern has a rotation supervisor for every activity and that supervision is occurring; (4) make appropriate reports or convey requests to the Psychology Internship Training Committee; (5) meet with the intern each week to review the progress and problems of the intern's training; (6) fulfill all other duties described. It is the intern's responsibility to confer regularly with the supervisors. In some instances primary supervisors may be changed during the year if faculty leave the program or a change proves advantageous for the intern.


In addition to the primary supervisors, each intern will likely have several other rotation supervisors assigned to him or her during the course of the year. Rotation supervisors are senior psychologists assigned to the unit on which the intern is rotating. Additional specialized supervision may also be provided by
psychologists who are active clinicians in the community but are not directly assigned to the rotation unit. Primary supervisors, rotation supervisors and community supervisors all assume direct responsibilities for teaching, instructing, observing, and otherwise maintaining supervision for specific clinical training activities. All supervisors have faculty or staff appointments in the Department of Psychiatry, UCSD.