Summit Psychological Associates Internship Tracks & Tours
Summit Psychological Associates is a large private agency with multiple locations in Northeast Ohio. Clients present with a wide range of psychological diagnoses and presentations. Interns at the agency provide a wide range of services described below. This internship is treatment and assessment focused with opportunities for evaluations, and allows for interns to gain experience with various services and referral sources.
Interns at Summit Psychological Associates will have the opportunity to work with forensic and non-forensic clients who present with a full range of mental health and substance use disorders. Interns will also participate in psychological evaluations that focus on forensic and various diagnostic referral questions.
Forensic Outpatient Services Track – Summit Psychological Associates, Inc. and Oriana House, Inc.
Interns train for 40 hours weekly at Summit Psychological Associates, Inc. in Akron, Ohio. They also have the opportunity to provide individual telehealth services (brief psychotherapy) at the Oriana House Community Corrections Program. Though every effort is made to limit work within the forty-hours a week (and significant progress has been made in reducing this), forensic interns may volunteer to bring work home to complete documentation or evaluations.
Interns have the opportunity to experience all facets of outpatient forensic services, including individual counseling for adults, treatment for individuals with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities who have a history of sex offending, group counseling (treatment and/or psychoeducation groups), and diagnostic assessments. Individual clients are referred from the mental health and substance use courts, and parents can be involved with Child Protective Services. Group counseling at Summit Psychological consists of the following groups: Three levels of sex offense groups, sex offense groups for clients with developmental disabilities, 10- or 26-week Conflict Solutions Groups for Domestic Violence or Assault perpetrators, and 52-week Batterers Intervention Program for Domestic Violence perpetrators.
Interns also participate in psychological evaluations that are co-led by supervising psychologists. These evaluations include NGRI evaluations, competency evaluations for adults and juveniles, as well as pre-employment and fitness for duty for the fire and police personnel. Interns may also have the opportunity to participate in pre-sentence investigations, sex offender risk assessments, federal assessments for clients leaving prison, psychological evaluations for eligibility for developmental disability services, guardianship evaluations, and diagnostic evaluations. Most evaluations do not include testing aside from the MMPI, mostly MMPI-3.
Interns also have an opportunity to provide brief psychotherapy via telehealth to clients at the male and female Oriana House Correctional Facilities. Interns also participate in the Family Intervention Court, where they assist in administering the time-out diversion program and attending court meetings and hearings. Interns may also participate in additional services within jail or community correction settings.
