Goal I:  Preparing professional psychologists to support quality primary care in integrated approaches to health care issues.

Objective 1: To develop in psychology residents general proficiency in clinical assessment and intervention.

Sub-Objective 1: To train residents in a broad range of empirically supported assessment strategies.

Outcome:

1. Residents will demonstrate proficiency in interview assessments by accurately completing a minimum of four diagnostic interviews, and at least one per rotation.  Accuracy will be judged by the responsible clinical supervisor.

2. Residents will demonstrate proficiency in psychological testing assessments by accurately completing: (1) three neuropsychological assessment batteries requiring only minimal corrections by the clinical supervisors; (2) six PTSD assessment batteries requiring only minimal corrections by the clinical supervisors; (3) three integrative personality assessment batteries or six brief cognitive assessment batteries requiring only minimal corrections by the clinical supervisors; and (4) for Residents obtaining specialized training in child/family psychology, five cognitive and personality assessment batteries. (See Test Proficiencies Required).

Sub-Objective 2: To train residents to become proficient in the implementation of a broad range of interventions, with an emphasis on empirically supported treatments.

Outcome:

1. Residents will use interventions that are based on empirical rationale and will document the basis of their choices on presentation to their supervisors.

2. Resident competence in implementing these interventions will be judged by supervisor's ratings of performance. The resident must be rated as "competent to implement interventions independently with supervision and review" (recognizing that sign-off and minimal review is still required for licensure) by the completion of each of the residency rotations.

Sub-Objective 3: To train residents to become proficient in the implementation of interventions with a broad range of patient populations.

Outcome:

1. Residents will successfully complete rotations that include inpatient and outpatient settings, and general medical settings. Competence in each of these settings will be determined by supervisor ratings of  "competent to implement interventions independently with supervision and review" by the completion of each of the rotations.

2. Residents will maintain consultation and therapy logs that verify that they are becoming proficient in the implementation of interventions with a broad range of patient populations.

Objective 2: To develop in psychology residents specific proficiencies in providing clinical assessment and treatment in integrated approaches to health care issues.

Sub-Objective 1: To train residents to apply clinical assessment and treatment strategies in medical settings.

Outcome:

1. Residents will use assessment and treatment strategies that are based on empirical rationale and on their applicability to medical settings and general health care issues.

2. Twice per year residents will submit a written work sample in which a treatment case formulation and treatment plan is submitted that demonstrates an empirically based and interdisciplinary approach to treatment as well as cultural competence. Proficiency of these work samples will be judged by the responsible clinical supervisor, the Overall Supervisor, and the Training Director.

Sub-Objective 2: To train psychology residents to function effectively in interdisciplinary teams.

Outcome:

Residents will work comfortably and professionally as a member of at least three interdisciplinary teams. Proficiency will be judged by the clinical supervisor.

Sub-Objective 3: To train residents in consultation assessment strategies in medical contexts.

Outcome:

Residents will demonstrate proficiency in consultation assessment strategies by completing a minimum of three consultations in a medical setting. Proficiency will be judged by the clinical supervisor.
 

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Goal II: Preparing professional psychologists who have experience with and interest in serving in mental health and medically underserved areas.

Objective 1: To provide psychology residents with practicum experiences involving patients from mental health and medically underserved areas.

Outcome:       

1. Residents will successfully complete clinical practicum experiences involving inpatient and/or outpatient care of patients from mental health and medically underserved areas. Proficiency will be judged by the clinical supervisor.

2. Residents will maintain consultation and therapy logs that will be reviewed by the Training Director at the completion of each rotation to verify that residents are becoming proficient in the implementation of interventions with an adequate representation of patients from mental health and medically underserved areas.

Objective 2: To provide psychology residents with educational/didactic experiences involving consumers and providers from mental health and medically underserved areas.

Outcome:

Residents will successfully participate in Outreach Educational and Prevention Teams designed to provide mental health education for consumers and providers in mental health and medically underserved areas in the Region 5 of the Georgia's MHMRSA system.
 

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Goal III: Preparing professional psychologists that stay abreast of evidence-based practices (Develop the Attitudes of Empiricism and Reflection in Clinical Practice).

Objective 1:   To train residents to systematically gather and integrate research data, idiographic patient data, idiographic clinician data, and nomothetic and idiographic cultural data for the purpose of clinical assessment and treatment.

Outcome:

1. Residents will demonstrate competence in an empirical approach to clinical practice as determined by supervisor ratings of  "competent to implement interventions independently with supervision and review" by the completion of each of the rotations. Clinical case presentations should include demonstration of knowledge of the pertinent research literature, assessment of the critical idiographic data and cultural data, and integration of data into workable treatment plans.

2. Twice per year residents will submit a written work sample in which a treatment case formulation and treatment plan is submitted that demonstrates an empirically based and interdisciplinary approach to treatment as well as cultural competence. Proficiency of these work samples will be judged by the responsible clinical supervisor, the Overall Supervisor, and the Training Director.

Outcome:

1. Residents will demonstrate competence in the reflective process in their clinical practice as indicated by their supervisors' ratings of  "competent to implement interventions independently with supervision and review" by the completion of each of the rotations.  

2. Residents will demonstrate competence in reflective processes in their performance in the Diagnostic/Treatment Seminar and the Psychotherapy Process Seminar.  Instructors will provide ratings of competence in the reflective process at the midyear and end of year evaluations. Self-evaluations of Residents will demonstrate a routinization of habits of reflection in their clinical practice. 

Objective 3:   To continue the development of resident research skills and thinking through the ongoing participation in a research-scholarship project.

Outcome:

Residents will complete one research-scholarly project in which there is a written product authored or co-authored by the residents. Proficiency of the research-scholarly product will be judged by the responsible project supervisor, the Overall Supervisor, and the Training Director.
 

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Goal IV: Preparing professional psychologists who aspire to cultural competence in their practice.

Objective 1:  To train residents to be culturally competent.

            Outcome:

1. Residents will successfully complete clinical practicum experiences involving inpatient and/or outpatient care of racial/ethnic/sexual orientation minority status patients as indicated by their supervisors' ratings of "competent to implement interventions independently with supervision and review" by the completion of each of the rotations.

2. Residents will successfully complete Seminars and Workshops devoted to sensitivity to and understanding of cultural differences and the implications of these differences in clinical assessment and treatment.

3. Twice per year residents will submit a written work sample in which a treatment case formulation and treatment plan is submitted that demonstrates an empirically based and interdisciplinary approach to treatment as well as cultural competence. Proficiency of these work samples will be judged by the responsible clinical supervisor, the Overall Supervisor, and the Training Director.
    

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Goal V: Cultivating of a professional identity in professional psychologists.

Objective 1: To train residents to maintain an awareness of the ethical standards of the profession of psychology.

Outcome:

Residents will demonstrate an awareness of the ethical issues and engage in appropriate ethical behavior in their clinical activities.  This will be assessed by ratings of the rotational supervisors and seminar instructors.

Objective 2: To train residents to constructively participate in the ongoing professional development of themselves and their colleagues.

Outcome:

Residents will routinely participate in peer supervision through the Diagnostic/Treatment Seminar, Psychotherapy Process Seminar and Professional Issues Seminar and demonstrate competence to provide constructive feedback to their colleagues. This will be assessed by the seminar instructors.

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