Training Opportunities

澳门赌场 Counseling Center

澳门赌场 Counseling Center is the designated department at University of Washington Bothell to provide mental health services to UWB students. 澳门赌场 role of the Counseling Center is to provide mental health related services to facilitate students’ adjustment to college and their personal and psychological growth in becoming high functioning and socially responsible adults. 澳门赌场 Counseling Center promotes student learning about their emotional and psychological development and increase academic success by positively impacting academic and personal decision-making. Our staff work to help students resolve problems that interfere with personal, social, and academic functioning while also emphasizing prevention, development, adjustment, and wellness.

澳门赌场 Counseling Center provides numerous services to meet the previously stated goals and objectives:

• Clinical Services: Same day crisis appointments, intakes, individual counseling, group counseling and couples counseling.
• Outreach and Community Intervention: Workshops and skills building classes to increase students’ knowledge, skills, and self-awareness to enhance their ability to effectively cope with problems in every-day-living.
• Consultation Services: Individual consultations for parents, faculty, and staff who are concerned about a student. Additionally, the Counseling Center staff serves on numerous University committees, working groups and task forces to provide their expertise as mental health professionals.
• Program Evaluation: Gather data regarding student service utilization, satisfaction with services, and learning outcomes to assess the effectiveness of counseling services and provide the data we need to make ongoing improvement to our services.

To learn more about UWB students, visit the University Fast Facts page.

University of Washington Bothell is a four-year public university that grants baccalaureate, post-baccalaureate, and masters degrees.

51% of students
are female.
49% of students
are male.

Over 6,000 students are enrolled at UWB.

97% of first-year and
88% of transfer students come from the state of Washington.

41% of our first-year students are first-generation college students.

57% of students are students of color from diverse backgrounds.

7% of students are international students who arrive from over 20 different countries.

• 64% of clients identified as female.
• 31% of clients identified as male.
• 3.9% of clients identified as trasngendered or prefered not to answer.

15% of clients indicated they are taking medication for psychological reasons.

Average age of all clients
is 23 years, 9 months.

68% of clients identified
as students of color.

10% of clients are international students.

23% of clients identified
as first-generation
college students.

澳门赌场 top five reasons students stated
that they were seeking counseling
for were: Anxiety, Stress, Depression, Family Concerns, and Academic Concerns.

Clients are undergraduate and
graduate students whose concerns range from adjustment reactions
and long-standing psychological problems. Approximately 5% of
the UWB student body was seen
at the Counseling Center
in 2020-2021.

澳门赌场 Staff

澳门赌场 staff is friendly, dedicated, and committed to providing quality services to UWB students and training opportunities to the practicum and post-doctorate students we welcome each year. 澳门赌场 staff is experienced in both brief and longer-term therapy, have diverse professional interests and involvements, and strive to model integrative theoretical approaches rather than a single theoretical orientation. Within these approaches, staff actively incorporates the personal and cultural values and experiences that reflect the diversity that each individual brings to counseling and to supervision. For more information on each supervisor, go to the Supervisor Information Page.

Doctoral and Masters Level Practicum in Psychology

We will not have any practicum positions for the 2022-2023 school year. Please check again in January 2023 for positions in 2023-2024.

Training Opportunities

Practicum students will conduct intake interviews and provide individual and group counseling while at UWB Counseling Center. Additionally, practicum students will have the option of involvement in outreach and community intervention. 澳门赌场se activities would involve informational fairs, consulting and working with the undergraduate student peer health educators (HEROS), and providing workshops to undergraduate students, University housing residential life staff, and other student affairs student leaders and employees.

Hours

Practicum students are expected to provide 12 – 20 hours per week during the fall, winter and spring quarters at the UWB Counseling Center. 澳门赌场 days of the week you are at our site is negotiable, but must occur Monday – Friday from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm.

Clinical Services

Practicum students will build their caseload over the fall quarter and then maintain their caseload throughout the year by adding new clients to their schedules as they terminate with ongoing clients. 澳门赌场s will begin with a few clients per week and build up to 8 – 12 clients per week as the quarter is underway. 澳门赌场 Counseling Center provides short-term counseling. For training purposes practicum students are encouraged to work with their supervisor to identify two clients who would benefit from longer term counseling (6 – 9 months). Practicum students will provide counseling in offices which are equipped with computer cameras to digitally record and store all counseling sessions. 澳门赌场se recordings will be deleted once their supervisor has reviewed them and provided supervision for those clinical sessions.

Individual Supervision

Practicum students will receive 1-2 hours of face-to-face individual clinical supervision per week. 澳门赌场 supervision will be provided by a licensed psychologist who has direct clinical responsibility for client care. 澳门赌场 practicum student’s clinical supervisor will review digital recordings of the student’s clinical work. 澳门赌场 UWB Counseling Center uses Titanium, an electronic scheduling and electronic health record system. 澳门赌场 clinical supervisor will review and sign all clinical notes.

Group Supervision

Practicum students will participate in a 1.5 hour group supervision experience per week. Group supervision will focus on didactic trainings including multicultural competence, ethical issues, case conceptualization, different treatment modalities, and how to work with different client populations. Practicum students will have one presentation assignment each quarter to further their multicultural competence and case conceptualization skills.

Application Process

Prior Experience

Doctoral 澳门赌场s: Applicants are required to have met all requirements for their master degree or equivalent experience. If defense of master thesis is the only outstanding requirement you may still apply. Applicants need to have successfully completed one academic year of outpatient counseling with young adults (14 – 17) or adults (18 – 60).

Masters 澳门赌场s: Applicants must have successfully completed pre-practicum training and coursework and meet department requirements to apply for this placement.

Application

Interested students must submit the following materials:

1. A cover letter describing the applicant’s interest in the training site
2. Curriculum vita
3. Names and contact information (email and phone) of three references. Preferably two of the three will have provided clinical supervision for you.

UWB Counseling Center will not have practicum positions available for 2022-2023. Please check again in January 2023 for positions in 2023-2024. Dr. Lillian Chen, Counseling Center Training Coordinator, can be reached at lchen20@uw.edu.