NOPIP Achieved Competency Goals and Objectives Evaluation Form — Northeastern Oklahoma Psychology Internship Program

NOPIP Achieved Competency Goals and Objectives Evaluation

NOPIP strove to provide you quality clinical training utilizing a diverse range of theoretical models and techniques, recognizing the importance of cultural and individual differences and diversity. In an effort to assess how well NOPIP prepared you in each of nine profession-wide competence areas of research; ethical and legal standards; individual and cultural diversity; professional values, attitudes, and behaviors; communication and interpersonal skills; assessment; intervention; supervision; and consultation and interprofessional/interdisciplinary skills (as detailed in Competency Goals and Objectives and the Intern Evaluation Form), please rate the following aspects of your perceived achieved competencies

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Your ability to critically evaluate and disseminate research or other scholarly activity, sensitive to and informed by diversity characteristics and contextual variables.

Research Competency

Your ability to apply relevant research literature to clinical decision making in assessment or intervention, including empirically supported treatments where applicable, sensitive to and informed by diversity characteristics and contextual variables.

Research Competency

Your knowledge of ethical principles, practice guidelines, and/or state/national laws and your ability to recognize ethical dilemmas and apply ethical decision making to resolve ethical dilemmas. Knowledge, recognition, and application of ethical and legal standards are sensitive to the complexity and multi-dimensionality of cultural and individual differences and diversity.

Ethical and Legal Standards Competency

Your ability to demonstrate ethical professional behavior is in all professional activities, including assessment, intervention, and decision-making. Ethical professional behavior is sensitive to the complexity and multi-dimensionality of cultural and individual differences and diversity.

Ethical and Legal Standards Competency

Your awareness of the impact of self (e.g., individual differences, transference, world views, personal/cultural history, attitudes, biases, etc.) on understanding and interacting with others.

Individual and Cultural Diversity Competency

Your knowledge of current data relevant to addressing individual and cultural diversity in professional activities, including research, training, assessment, intervention, and supervision/consultation.

Individual and Cultural Diversity Competency

Your ability to apply awareness and knowledge of individual and cultural diversity to service delivery in diverse populations, including the ability to work effectively with individuals whose group membership, demographic characteristics, or worldviews may create conflict with your own.

Individual and Cultural Diversity Competency

Your ability to behave in a professional manner, characterized by the values, attitudes and conduct reflected in the APA Code of Ethics and informed by current scientific literature, diversity characteristics, and contextual variables.

Professional Values, Attitudes, and Behaviors Competency

Your ability to use introspection, self-knowledge, and selfawareness to recognize your own interpersonal style, approach to emotional expression, attitudes/values, skills and possible deficiencies; demonstrating an effort to increase your professional functioning, including openness to feedback and maintaining and improving performance, well-being, and professional effectiveness.

Professional Values, Attitudes, and Behaviors Competency

Your ability to develop and maintain rapport with appropriate professional boundaries with others, including patient or clients seeking psychological services, colleagues, organizations, professions, and/or communities. Effective relationships are informed by current scientific literature, diversity characteristics, contextual variables, and self-reflection

Communication and Interpersonal Skills Competency

Your verbal, nonverbal, and written professional communication about psychological phenomenon is informative, integrated (e.g., reflective of analyzing and synthesizing data), and demonstrative of knowledge of professional language and psychological concepts.

Communication and Interpersonal Skills Competency

Your ability to utilize interpersonal skills of verbal and nonverbal communication, listening effectively and reflectively, negotiation abilities, problem solving abilities, decision making abilities, assertiveness, etc. to manage communications, including difficult communications that may address content that is emotionally loaded for one or more of the participants.

Communication and Interpersonal Skills Competency

Your ability to formally collect assessment data, using multiple sources and methods, including intake/clinical interviews and the assessment of mental status; gathering relevant history and differential diagnosis information informed by current scientific literature, with sensitivity to diversity characteristics and awareness of the impact of self (e.g., individual differences, transference, world views, etc.).

Assessment Competency

Your ability to promptly and proficiently administer appropriate tests in area of practice; appropriately choosing the tests to be administrated and demonstrating competence in administering intelligence and personality/ psychopathology/ problem specific/ behavioral measures. Test selection and administration is based on knowledge of current professional literature regarding psychological assessment.

Assessment Competency

Your ability to accurately and thoroughly score and interpret psychological tests, demonstrating competence in scoring and interpreting intelligence and personality/ psychopathology/ problem specific/ behavioral measures. Test interpretation is based on knowledge of current research and professional standards and guidelines, which address the identified goals and/or referral question(s).

Assessment Competency

Your ability to write a well-organized, clear report that addresses the referral question and provides the referral source with specific recommendations as required; using appropriate grammar, spelling, and terminology, citing sources of information, and acknowledging gaps in information.

Assessment Competency

Your ability to plan and carry out a written and/or oral feedback interview to clients and/or caregivers regarding assessment results and their implications; providing feedback in terms that clientele and/or caregiver can understand with suitable recommendations and responses to issues raised by clientele and/or caregiver.

Assessment Competency

Your ability to formulate a useful case conceptualization that is based on diagnoses and theoretical orientation. Therapy goals/treatment plans reflect applying and implementing applicable evidence-based interventions which are informed by research, applicable assessment findings, cultural and individual differences and diversity, and contextual variables.

Intervention Competency

Your therapeutic approaches and interventions reflect applying applicable evidence-based interventions which are informed by research, applicable assessment findings, cultural and individual differences and diversity, and contextual variables. Treatment is applied with sensitivity to cultural and individual differences and diversity, including self-awareness of the impact of self, knowledge of literature regarding cultural and individual differences and diversity, and skills in the ability to integrate self-awareness and knowledge.

Intervention Competency

Your knowledge of group dynamics and skills in effectively planning and facilitating/leading psychoeducational and/or process groups that, when applicable, are based on empirically supported treatment; including intervening in groups skillfully, attending to member participation, attending to group communication, and preparing necessary materials to facilitate group goals and tasks. Treatment effectiveness is assessed by collection of quantitative outcome data.

Intervention Competency

Your ability to evaluate the effectiveness of therapy approaches and interventions, reflecting applicable evidencebased interventions, continuously. Evaluation results inform and, when necessary, adapt therapeutic approaches and interventions, including intervention goals and methods.

Intervention Competency

Your ability to understand the specialization of supervision, including standards, ethical issues and effective evaluation, and your ability to effectively engage in supervision of others.

Supervision Competency

Your ability to understand the theoretical foundations and parameters of consultation, including ethical issues and current controversies within the field, and your ability to effectively engage in consultation.

Consultation and Interprofessional/Interdisciplinary Skills Competency

NOPIP Achieved Competency Goals and Objectives Evaluation

NOPIPLaureate Institute for Brain ResearchC/O Robin Aupperle, Ph.D.6655 S. Yale AvenueTulsa, OK 74136

NOPIP
Laureate Institute for Brain Research
C/O Robin Aupperle, Ph.D.
6655 S. Yale Avenue
Tulsa, OK 74136