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Welcome
to Our Internship Program
We hope the following information assists you in your decision-making
process concerning internship sites. We are proud of our program
and have designed this web site to help you become familiar with
the program and our training staff. Enjoy your journey...and if
you have any questions, please contact our Training Director,
Dan Wilcox, Ph.D. or phone her at (785) 532-6927
Our
National Matching Service Number is 130511
Our Internship program has been APA-accredited since 1987 and
has been successfully re-accreditated consistently, the most recent
being in Spring 2000. For more information about APA, contact:
the APA web-site
or
American
Psychological Association
750 First Street, NE
Washington, DC 20002
(202) 336-5500
KSU Counseling Services (KSU-CS)
Our mission at KSU-CS is to provide Kansas State University students with a wide range of services and programs, designed to help them achieve their personal and educational goals. KSU-CS is the primary counseling and mental health agency for a student body of over 20,000 students. Students come to us with a wide range of concerns including: career indecision, relationship problems, alcohol/drug abuse, abuse, stress, sexual assault, post traumatic stress, depression, anxiety, personality disorders, and eating disorders. Our staff maintains close working relationships with local mental health and hospital facilities and we refer students who require more long-term or more intensive care.
Among
the services offered by KSU-CS are short-term individual psychotherapy,
group therapy, psycho educational workshops, outreach presentations,
prevention services, couples counseling, psychiatric consultation,
crisis intervention, consultation to other university departments,
career and vocational testing and counseling, psychological testing
and assessment. The KSU-CS staff is committed to diversity and
to providing an environment that embraces and supports individual
and cultural differences.
As a staff, we are highly committed to providing comprehensive,
high quality training to Predoctoral interns. The internship program
at Kansas State University took its first Intern in 1981. The
program gained accreditation from the American Psychological Association
in June, 1987.
Our staff members have a variety of interests and theoretical perspectives. Several staff hold faculty appointments and are very active in teaching and research. Many staff members are active in professional organizations including APA, ACCTA, and The Kansas Psychological Association. Our staff consists of the following professionals:
7
licensed psychologists (both clinical and counseling)
1 Ph.D. Level Therapist
1 Master's level Biofeedback Specialist
2 Alcohol/Drug Specialists
1 Consulting Psychiatrist
1 Post-doctoral Fellow
4 Predoctoral Interns
1 Research Analyst
1 Graduate Assistant
4 Support staff
KSU-CS
is located in an attractively renovated facility on the second
floor of the English & Counseling Services Building, located
in the heart of campus. KSU-CS staff and interns have private,
tastefully furnished offices equipped with computers connected
to our word processing, scheduling and data collecting system.
These also are connected to the University main frame allowing
staff to complete any computer task including e-mail from their
own offices. Interns can search the library or communicate on
the Internet from the Counseling Service. We have a state of the
art computerized biofeedback lab. Several larger offices accommodate
therapy groups, and a large conference room is available for meetings
or classes. Our reception area is roomy, comfortable, and attractive.
There is also a fairly large staff work room which also accommodates
sack lunch carriers and our occasional afternoon staff ice cream
breaks.
One
of the nation's original land grant universities, KSU was established
under the Morrill Act on February 16, 1863. The campus has many
beautiful old limestone buildings along with newer buildings designed
to blend easily. The 315 acre picturesque campus is filled with
trees, shrubs, flowers and grassy areas. The campus is in Manhattan,
125 miles west of Kansas City via interstate 70. The city has
a population around 43,000 located in the rolling Flint Hills
of northern Kansas where the Big Blue River meets the Kansas River.
Five miles north of Manhattan is Tuttle Creek Lake, with 110 miles
of shoreline.
The land grant heritage of KSU is central to the University's
philosophy and outlook. It is clearly reflected in the student
body, of approximately 25,000 students, who enroll in colleges
of agriculture, architecture and design, arts and sciences, business
administration, education, engineering, human ecology, and veterinary
medicine. Graduate programs and continuing education programs
account for the remaining student enrollment.
While most of our students are Kansas residents, all 50 states and 70 countries are represented. The majority of students come from rural areas. The campus is largely residential with 4,500 students in residence halls, 600 or more in student family housing, 2,500 students in fraternities and sororities, and most others in off-campus apartments. There are students who commute from nearby towns but that is the exception rather than the rule.
Kansas
State University students and faculty are committed to academic
excellence. Among all public and private universities in America,
Kansas State ranks in the top one percent in producing Rhodes
Scholars. Further, Kansas State also maintains an excellent record
of Fulbright, Truman, and Goldwater Scholars. While the University
emphasizes academic excellence, it also provides a broad array
of cultural and social activities.
A wide variety of recreational and leisure activities are available
on campus and in the community. Kansas State athletics competes
in the Big 12 Conference. The McCain series brings national and
international dance, theater, opera, and music to Manhattan. K-State
competes in the "Big 12" NCAA division I athletic conference,
providing ample options for the sports fan. The state park at
the lake provides good camping, hiking, biking, or boating. Our
expanded campus recreational complex includes weights, track,
handball, racquetball courts, exercise equipment, basketball courts
and swimming. Interns can purchase a facility use card at low-cost
faculty rates.