The Nebraska Consortium specializes in training professional psychologists with child, adolescent, college student, and family interests. Within that context:
- Interns are given maximum opportunity to assume increasing professional responsibility, with appropriate supervision, as their skills and knowledge grow over the year.
- Each intern's training schedule is worked out in a flexible, mutually-designated and agreed-upon manner.
- The internship experiences are developed to meet the intern's professional goals and to provide maximum personal development.
- Planned interaction among all interns is an integral part of this training program.
- Interns meet regularly with their program directors to monitor and assess progress.
- Supervision (averaging about 4 hours per week) occurs through a combination of individual and group.
- Research activities are encouraged and some official training time may be allotted to this activity.
Interns are required to participate in monthly seminars covering assessment, intervention, professional issues, diversity, and service delivery. Seminar topics in the past have included crisis intervention, neuropsychology, psychotropic drugs, family therapy, assessment of low incidence handicaps, curriculum based assessment, professional interdisciplinary collaboration, and legal/ethical issues. Case presentations by interns focusing on assessment and intervention activities are a part of all monthly seminars.
Interns are expected to seek out and take advantage of other training activities available at their sites and in the community. Occasionally, particular presentations or workshops are identified as a requirement of the internship. Two examples of such activities are the Nebraska Symposium on Motivation and the Buros-Nebraska Symposium on Measurement and Testing.
