Groves Academy’s mission, vision, and core values shape our service delivery within The Learning Center at Groves Academy. Our mission reads, “We build confidence, success, and purpose through transformative learning experiences,” and our mission is “To redefine the way our nation is taught, one student, one teacher, and one school at a time.” Authenticity, Compassion, Collaboration, Discovery, and Tenacity are our core values.
We are seeking doctorate-level internship students to gain experience over an array of psychological services. A primary responsibility of the intern will be conducting psychoeducational evaluations and writing reports under the guidance of our team of licensed psychologists. Our diagnostics team has extensive experience working with children, adolescents, and adults with a primary focus of working with populations with suspected learning and attention disorders. The diagnostics team is nestled within The Learning Center which offers outpatient services such as tutoring, career counseling, speech/language therapy, assistive technology, and diagnostic evaluations. While a majority of our clients are outpatient referrals from the community, we actively work with our day school by completing evaluations, providing professional development, and assisting teachers in other matters to meet the needs of our students.
Interns will gain experiences with conducting evaluations and writing comprehensive evaluations. We offer access to many instruments including cognitive, academic, executive functioning, social-emotional, personality, language, and neuropsychological assessments. Upon showing mastery of the assessments we administer, interns will be allowed to complete comprehensive written reports. Our goals include fostering the student’s independence to complete the full provision of services offered to the client including completing the clinical interview, administering and scoring the assessments, writing the evaluation report, and providing feedback to the clients. Other responsibilities will include assisting our professionals who provide counseling and social skills training to our students. Mental health supports will be provided by the intern to assist with various needs caused by anxiety, ADHD, and other factors that adversely affect social-emotional functioning. Interns will have the opportunity to work at a systemwide level to support our school that specifically provides support for those with learning disorders and problems with executive function.
Many clients come to Groves Academy to identify factors affecting learning and functioning. Generally, our clients are school-aged, but we have served clients between the ages of 5 and 65. We frequently work with postsecondary clients to identify any learning needs or interventions that will assist them in being successful in their education or employment. Even though most clients exhibit symptoms related to learning and attention disorders, we commonly see clients with other needs including those exhibiting anxiety, depression, and/or other social-emotional issues. We adhere to a developmental model of supervision where we provide more support and guidance during the beginning of the internship year with a goal of the intern becoming autonomous and independent throughout the course of the year. Interns will be able to work with multiple members of our team in attempting to provide the best services to our clients during this internship. Please note that Groves Academy is a 12 month internship, whereas other consortium sites are 10 months.