Graduate Clinical Training Opportunities
Three primary types of training positions are available in the UGA RCLD clinic:
- Practicum placements are unpaid part-time (usually 13 hours per week)
- Graduate assistantships are paid part-time (usually 13 hours per week)
- Postdoctoral fellowships are paid full-time (40 hours per week).
Training opportunities are offered when resources permit. Please contact rcld@uga.edu for information on current openings. Supervision by a licensed psychologist is provided to all trainees.
Practicum Placements
Practicum students are working toward a graduate degree in psychology and want specialized training in assessment that may not be available in their degree program. General objectives include:
- Developing competency in administration, scoring, and interpretation of cognitive, achievement, and social-emotional measures.
- Developing interviewing skills.
- Learning report-writing skills and gain experience using the RCLD model.
- Gaining experience working on an evaluation team.
- Developing case conceptualization, data integration, and diagnostic decision making processes.
- Understanding characteristics of different learning disorders.
- Developing knowledge of appropriate accommodations for different disabilities.
- Understanding different criteria for identifying learning disorders and AD/HD.
- Gaining Practical experience working with a variety of clients.
- Developing basic knowledge of assistive technologies available to individuals.
Graduate Assistantships
Graduate assistants have experience working in the RCLD and wish to continue expanding their assessment expertise while providing services to the clinic. General objectives include:
- Expanding competency in administration, scoring, and interpretation of cognitive, achievement, and social-emotional measures.
- Honing interviewing skills.
- Refining report-writing skills and gain experience using the RCLD model.
- Gaining experience working on an evaluation team.
- Further developing case conceptualization, data integration, and diagnostic decision making processes.
- Developing deeper understanding of characteristics of different learning disorders.
- Expanding knowledge of appropriate accommodations for different disabilities.
- Gaining additional practical experience working with a variety of clients.
- Expanding knowledge of assistive technologies available to individuals.
- Developing case-management skills, including providing feedback to clients and their families.
- Developing team leadership and administrative skills.
Postdoctoral Fellowships
Postdoctoral fellowships are structured to meet guidelines for the Supervised Work Experience required for licensure by the State Board of Examiners of Georgia Psychologists and are designed for newly degreed psychologists who desire highly specialized training in assessment. General objectives include:
- Developing competency in administration, scoring, and interpretation of cognitive, achievement, and social-emotional measures.
- Developing diagnostic interviewing skills.
- Refining report-writing skills and gain experience using the RCLD model.
- Gaining experience leading an evaluation team.
- Developing case conceptualization, data integration, and diagnostic decision making processes.
- Understanding characteristics of different learning disorders.
- Developing knowledge of appropriate accommodations for different disabilities.
- Understanding different criteria for identifying learning disorders and AD/HD.
- Gaining additional practical experience working with a variety of clients.
- Developing basic knowledge of assistive technologies available to individuals.
- Gaining experience training and supervising graduate students.
- Learning to review and edit reports written by others.
- Developing case-management skills, including providing feedback to clients and their families.
- Developing team leadership and administrative skills.
- Preparing for independent practice.
- Participating in other professional activities (e.g., research, teaching, presentations).