Illinois State University’s Psychological Services Center (PSC)

ISPIC History

The PSC has been a partnering site since 2003 and has trained 1-4interns annually. All interns experience a minimum of 600 hours oftraining in a rural school with which Dr. Allee-Smith has a workingrelationship, and the school opportunities have changed often.Currently, interns are at schools within the Tri-County Special Education Association, which has been a partnering site since 2012. All school-based supervisors are oriented to ISPIC supervision model and participate in meta-supervision. Advocate Medical Group has been a partnering site since 2018. Dr. Krippner engages in the interns’ co-supervision on a weekly basis, and participates in ISPIC meta-supervision opportunities as available.

Yearly Stipend: $23,660

Interns’ Typical Week of Training• All interns train 2 days per week in a rural school district or special education

cooperative. One day per week they are thoroughly integrated into the elementary Response to Intervention model, providing a full range of school psychological services with an emphasis on academic assessment andintervention. During the second day they provide individual and group therapy to adolescent students.

• PSC interns also spend 2 days per week in primary care practices that are part of the Advocate Medical Group, providing integrated behavioral health services. The PSC tracks are differentiated by primary care placements:

1. Pediatric: Both primary care practice days take place within a pediatric practice in Bloomington/Normal.

2. Rural: One primary care practice day occurs in the Bloomington pediatric practice, and the other day is split between two rural practices serving patients of all ages.

• During the fifth day each week (and during the 2 school days in summer months),interns participate in additional didactic and supervision activities and pursueindividualized opportunities such as teaching, supervision, or providing services to clients at the PSC under real-time supervision.

In both their school and behavioral health placements, interns have sufficienttechnology/equipment to support their training and appropriate space available to serve clients.

Interns’ Site Work Spaces and Equipment

Population Demographics

Client Age0-2 3-5 6-12 13-17 18-64 65+

0% 7% 38% 33% 19% 3%

Client GenderMale Female Transgender Other

39% 60% 0% 1%

Client Ethnicity

African-American

Asian-American

LatinxAmerican

IndianEuropean American

Bi-racial Other

4% 4% 10% 0% 78% 4% 0%

Paula Allee-Smith, PhD, NCSP

• Licensed School & Clinical Psychologist

• Clinic Director

• ISPIC Training Director

• 1.0 FTE employee

• Devotes on average 25 hours per week (0.625FTE) to the internship program

Interns' Typical Week of Supervision• Interns have two hours of individual, regularly-scheduled, face-to-face

supervision with a licensed clinical and school psychologist, Dr. Allee-Smith. Dr. Allee-Smith supervises interns’ integrated behavioral health service delivery, as well as the therapy provided in schools. Interns have access to Dr. Allee-Smith by telephone and e-mail at all times.

• Dr. Kevin Krippner, Ph.D., licensed clinical psychologist and Advocate’s Behavioral Health Clinical Coordinator, joins weekly individual supervision for the second hour to discuss behavioral health cases. Both supervisors sign-off on notes for these cases.

• During their elementary rotation, interns receive on-site supervision by an experienced school psychologist in the building. Regular communication between the partnering sites and Dr. Allee-Smith ensures a balanced and coherent trainingexperience.

• Interns participate in group supervision on Fridays, which includes livesupervised practice of new skills and case presentations.

The Psychological Services Center consists of a waiting room,

The PSC Main Office is located inFairchild 408 on the campus ofISU. An office manager andstudent workers assist withanswering phone calls,scheduling, and clerical tasks.Client files are kept in locked filecabinets in locked offices.

Supervision

• Weekly individual supervision and group supervision occurs in Dr. Allee-Smith’s office

• Supervision notes are kept in a locked file cabinet in Dr. Allee-Smith’s office.

Materials

Because the PSC is a graduatepsychology training clinic, internshave access to an especially widearray of assessment instrumentsand intervention materials.INSERT PICTURE OF MATERIALS

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In addition to family therapy and play therapy space, thereare several treatment rooms all equipped with digital cameras to facilitate real-time and recorded supervision.

The interns share an officeequipped with file cabinet,computer, printer, and telephone.