Core
Competencies
Clinical Proficiencies
- Rural outpatient mental health practice
- Basic interpersonal skills
- Diagnosis and assessment of common mental health conditions using DSM protocols
- Professional relationship skills
- Managing ethical dilemmas in professional rural practice
- Crisis/risk assessment and intervention
- Effective supervision of other mental health and allied health care professionals
- Community education
- Psychological practice and service delivery in primary care hospitals
- Understanding of the history of rural hospital psychology practice and the role of the local community hospital in rural settings
- Understand the dynamics of medical staff membership and psychologist participation in governance of rural community hospitals
- Develop and nurture collaborative working relationships with primary care physicians and allied health care staff in hospital based care
- Understand the policies and protocols of rural hospital emergency rooms and the role of the psychologist in the evaluation and treatment of medical and psychiatric emergencies
- Innovative delivery of mental health service: in-home treatment
- To develop an understanding of the issues surrounding provision of in-home treatment using principles of systems theory
- To develop and nurture collaborative working relationships with a multidisciplinary team in adult and children's day treatment settings
- Outpatient substance abuse assessment, diagnosis, education, and treatment
- To develop an understanding and awareness of the unique issues present in providing chemical dependency treatment services in a rural setting and the effects on serving rural chemically dependent clients
- To develop an understanding of available screening tools for accurate assessment of chemical abuse and dependence in rural patients and to make the most clinically sensible referral for the most empirically based and appropriate treatment modality
- Professional relationship skills
- Domestic violence assessment, intervention, education, and treatment
- Understanding of the current literature and practice concepts of battered women, domestic violence, domestic crimes, spousal abuse, sibling abuse, significant other abuse, parent/child abuse and the continuum of conflict in both heterosexual and homosexual families and relationships
- Understanding of power and control issues and the cycle of violence in domestic conflict situations
- Understanding and awareness of dangers of disclosure, confidentiality issues, and the relationship of rural culture (i.e. agricultural issues, spiritual/religious issues, cultural diversity, same sex violence) to domestic violence
- Understanding of forensic issues pertaining to domestic violence including awareness of the legal processes pertaining to restraining orders, witnessing children, court room policies, and inter-agency cooperation with police and attorneys
- Understanding of the psychology of battering and violence, sexual assault, rape, and incest in rural communities and the role of alcohol, substance abuse, and mental illness in these crimes
- Understanding of the design, implementation and assessment of support groups for adults, adolescents, and children in domestic violence situations in rural communities
- Understand and recognize the dynamics of vicarious traumatization in rural clinicians treating victims and perpetrators of violence
- Delivery of psychological services to governmental agencies: county social service, law enforcement, and the courts
- Inter-agency and community networking
- Human service agencies - approaches and philosophies
- Multidisciplinary approaches
- Rural mental health practice in the school district
- To conduct assessments, determine diagnoses, and provide individual and/or group therapy pertaining to specific mental health issues impacting children in the K-12 school setting
- To provide crisis intervention assessment and case consultation for students
- To understand and become familiar with the current Special Education Law that pertains to medical/psychological diagnosis and educational qualification
- To provide parent and teacher consultation related to a specific student
- To provide educational training to staff on pertinent school/student issues related to mental health diagnosis and treatment
- To be exposed to and work toward inter-agency collaboration with Becker County Human Services and to serve as a link to psychiatric/medical professionals who are also involved with particular students
- Delivery of geropsychological service to nursing homes, extended care facilities, and other settings serving older adults
- Trainee will develop necessary skills and knowledge sets to accurately, professionally, and ethically conduct comprehensive geropsychological evaluations and conceptualize clinical issues of older adults
- Trainee will develop and practice skill sets and knowledge sets pertaining to the use of geriatric specific psychometric instruments in the assessment of a variety of psychological and neuropsychological conditions common in older adults. The results will be used to conduct treatment planning at the levels of the individual client and the relevant program consistent with professional principles and standards of continuity of care
- Multicultural competency, sensitivity to diversity, and recognition of the role of background, ethnicity, and environment in the successful delivery of effective psychological services
- To recognize values and world view and how they affect clinical practice, expectations and attitudes that mental health professionals and American Indian clients (and other ethnic minorities) have toward one another. This can include beliefs, behaviors, and attitudes regarding cultural and individual difference. Further, to develop an understanding of the impact of American Indian, specifically Anishinaabe, culture, ethnicity, spirituality, and historical trauma in the delivery and reception of mental health services by the American Indian client in the rural setting.
- Understanding of the culture of poverty in rural communities and its impact on psychological services
- Understanding rural culture
- Inter-agency networking
- Agency scope of service and multidisciplinary coordination of care
- Research, community leadership, and program evaluation
- Community based clinical research and program evaluation
- Community leadership