{"id":7716,"date":"2024-11-15T14:16:17","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T19:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shepherd.org\/?page_id=7716"},"modified":"2025-03-06T10:21:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T15:21:40","slug":"brain-injury-rehab-psychology","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/shepherd.org\/education\/allied-health\/psychology-externship-program\/brain-injury-rehab-psychology\/","title":{"rendered":"Brain Injury &amp; Rehabilitation Psychology Externship"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"hero-container hero-container--with-sidenav hero-container__hero-small_image\">\n  <div class=\"hero hero-small_image\">\n    <div class=\"hero__title_container\">\n      <h1 class=\"hero__title\">\n                  Brain Injury &#038; Rehabilitation Psychology\n              <\/h1>\n              <nav class=\"breadcrumbs\" aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\">\n\t<ol class=\"breadcrumbs__list\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/shepherd.org\">Home<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"\">Pages<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t<\/ol>\n<\/nav>      \n          <\/div>\n          <div class=\"hero__image-container\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/shepherd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/myelitis-inpatient-respiratory-0117.jpg?ver=1732654369\" alt=\"A smiling woman in a wheelchair, wearing black clothes and a headband, happily interacts with a yellow lab service dog that is licking her face. 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An advanced student is generally defined as a fourth-year student (applying in the spring of the third year) in medical, health, or rehabilitation psychology tracks. The advanced student needs to have completed intervention curricula and completed at least one other external psychology practicum with a focus on psychotherapeutic interventions.<\/p>\n<h2>Externship location<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shepherd.org\/about\/locations\/shepherd-pathways\/\">Shepherd Pathways<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Length of training<\/h2>\n<p>August 2025 &#8211; August 2026 &#8211; 2 days\/16 hours per week<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The length of training can be flexible depending on the program and practicum agreement.<\/li>\n<li>Tuesdays and Wednesdays are strongly preferred.<\/li>\n<li>Group supervision occurs on Tuesday afternoons and is mandatory for all trainees and staff. The inability to attend group supervision because of other obligations\/conflicts is an exclusion criterion for consideration.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Externship supervision<\/h2>\n<p>All students are assigned a primary supervisor. Each week, the student will receive at least one hour of individual supervision in addition to one hour of group supervision obtained through clinical and didactic activities. Additional informal supervision regularly occurs as the student manages the demands of clinical services. Styles and modes of supervision vary according to the supervisor. Students may also receive tiered supervision with postdoctoral neuropsychology fellows. Students receive feedback on case presentations, performance in team meetings and seminars, consultative\/supervisory work, writing skills, and overall professional conduct. Future career planning and interviewing skills are also addressed during supervisory sessions.<\/p>\n<h2>Agency Involvement<\/h2>\n<p>The primary clinical population includes individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and non-traumatic brain injury. The most common precipitating factors leading to TBI cases seen in this facility include motor vehicle accidents, falls, gunshot wounds to the head, and assault. The most common precipitating factors leading to non-TBI cases seen in this facility include aneurysm, stroke, anoxia, brain tumor, and hydrocephalus. Shepherd Pathways is a multifaceted facility that houses residential, day treatment, and outpatient programs.<\/p>\n<p>We utilize evidence-based biopsychosocial approaches to evaluation, intervention, and rehabilitation. Outpatient interventions include clinical interviews and neurobehavioral evaluations, patient and family psychosocial interviews, neurobehavioral assessments, and may include brief cognitive testing assessment (1.5-2 hours) batteries to facilitate treatment guidelines or capacity determination. Students may also be asked to contribute to developing behavioral guidelines for patients presenting with neurobehavioral challenges (e.g., agitation, impulsivity, etc.).<\/p>\n<p>Features of this practicum include an introduction to adjustment and adaptation to disability and illness; family role changes; re-integration into the community; cognitive\/capacity evaluations; crisis intervention; interdisciplinary teamwork; support groups for patients and families; psychoeducation regarding sexuality and intimacy, pain management, substance use, and medical management of injury\/disease.<\/p>\n<h2>Student involvement<\/h2>\n<p>This is typically a two-day practicum placement (16 hours per week). Students may have the opportunity to lead adjustment groups and psychoeducational lectures for patients and family members. Students will gain experience in consultation with medical staff members, healthcare teams, families, and administrative systems.<\/p>\n<p>Intervention typically consists of short-term therapy, often related to adjustment to injury. Students learn to integrate Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Motivational Interviewing (MI) approaches with clients. They may also develop behavior management plans for clients and teams experiencing behavioral dysregulation that interferes with treatment.<\/p>\n<h2>Application process<\/h2>\n<p>Applications are now closed for the 2025-2026 training year.<\/p>\n\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Explore our post-doctoral externship in rehabilitation psychology, specializing in brain injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"parent":7618,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true,"_tec_requires_first_save":true,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"class_list":["post-7716","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.1 (Yoast SEO v25.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Brain Injury &amp; 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