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The procedure for selecting a specialty practicum
site is as follows:
• Consult with Dr. Stoltenberg about the process and
options and when you intend to enroll.
• Review the list of sites (on following pages) and
confer with faculty and other students about them and/or additional
options.
• Get a copy of the necessary forms (contract) to
be completed by you and the site and have them completed.
• Work up a Memo of Understanding between you and
the site so that it is clear what the expectations are of
all involved. Have the memo sent to Dr. Stoltenberg.
• Enroll in the appropriate practicum class (Practicum
III, EDPY 6913.003).
The only exception to this format is if you do your specialty
practicum at the Assessment Clinic. Still inform Dr. Stoltenberg
of this decision, but then enroll in EDPY 6913.004).
Specialty Practicum Sites Include:
Counseling Psychology Assessment Clinic
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This practicum experience is an expansion of the clinic's ongoing mission
of counselor training and service to the community. This is a two semester
commitment that provides the student with three hours of graduate specialty
practicum course credit upon completion. A didactic component reviews basic
theoretical, legal, and ethical aspects of assessments for learning disorders,
mental retardation, serious emotional disturbance, mood disorders, and other
common assessment targets, including attention to diversity issues in the evaluation
of various disorders. Administration and scoring procedures are reviewed and
clients assigned. Reports are supervised by a licensed counseling psychologist.
Typically 6-9 comprehensive assessment batteries and reports are completed
during the practicum. Instruments used include WAIS-III, WISC-IV, WIAT-II,
WMS-III, CMS, MMPI-2, MMPI-A, BDI, BAI, STAXI, Rorschach, Roberts Apperception
Test, Nelson-Denney Reading Test, CBCL, TRF, YSR, Connors Scales, Brown ADHD
Inventory, CPT-II, Wisconsin Card Sort, Trails A & B, Stroop, VMI, Bender-Gestalt,
and the HTP, among others.
Crossroads Youth and Family Center - This
practicum experience offers the opportunity to work with children
and/or parents in individual counseling, family counseling,
crisis intervention, advocacy, effective parent training,
outdoor therapeutic activities, first offender program, after
school activities program, mentor services, life skills training,
and outreach programs. Supervision is provided by Dr. Gary
Lindsay, a licensed counseling psychologist.
Cleveland County Community Mental Health Center
- This agency is run under the state Department of Mental
Health and is intended to provide outpatient and brief inpatient
services to adults. The client population is typically experiencing
serious pathology and usually is made up of low SES individuals.
Interventions are primarily group oriented, but individual
therapy is also provided as are psychological assessments.
Supervision is provided by Dr. Harry Boyd, a licensed psychologist.
Cleveland County Child Guidance Clinic -
This agency is run under the state Health Department
and is intended to serve children and adolescents and their
parents. Services provided include
short term treatment for children and families dealing with
emotional, behavioral, and learning
problems, consultation with parents and others, short term
education groups with children in the
public schools addressing issues such as blended families,
friendship, anger management, resisting
peer pressure, coping with divorce, and improving self esteem.
Also, cognitive, psychological,
and attention deficit disorder evaluations and referrals to
other services are offered. Supervision
is provided by a licensed psychologist, usually either Dr.
Ray McCaffery or Dr. Aubrey
Washington.
Dr. Ray Hand, Psychologist - Students interested
in learning about forensic psychology and
private practice issues may take a practicum from Dr. Ray
Hand, a licensed psychologist. Dr.
Hand focuses on individual psychotherapy and psychodiagnostic
evaluations for clinical and
forensic purposes. He works with children, adults, and families
and regularly consults with the
Oklahoma Juvenile Shelter, and the Oklahoma Department of
Human Services.
OU Health Sciences Center - The OU Health
Science Center in Oklahoma City provides a number
of opportunities for students through its departments, affiliated
hospitals, and clinics. Among
these, students have regularly sought practicum experiences
in the Department of Psychiatry and
Behavioral Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, Department
of Hematology and Oncology, Child
Study Center, and Center for Child Abuse and Neglect. A number
of licensed psychologists
provide supervision for students working with a breadth of
patients with a wide range of problems
and circumstances.
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