Residency Program Outcomes
CareNet Residency in Psychotherapy and Spirituality
Program Outcomes
CareNet Residency in Psychotherapy and Spirituality is a two-year, post-graduate training program with emphasis in the integration of psychotherapy and spirituality.
The residency assists individuals working towards:
- Clinical competence
- State licensure
- Professional identity formation
- Clinical and spiritual integration
Graduates of CareNet’s Residency in Psychotherapy and Spirituality will be able to:
- Develop therapeutic relationships that help clients stabilize, heal, and grow
- Articulate a bio-psycho-social-spiritual understanding of human beings and human communities
- Make use of the self of the therapist to:
- Connect and join with clients
- Understand and assess clients
- Make effective therapeutic interventions
- Articulate a clinical theory and show evidence of integrating that theory into their work
- Make accurate clinical diagnoses, develop treatment plans connected to diagnosis, and keep clinical records that document progress towards treatment goals
- Understand underlying issues and dynamics that are relevant to client’s diagnosis and work towards therapeutic engagement with these underlying issues and dynamics
- Make therapeutically effective use of transference and countertransference
- Help clients strengthen capacity for emotional regulation
- Help clients identify strengths and resources and mobilize those for stabilization and wellness
- Help clients identify and mobilize spiritual resources
- Draw upon their own spiritual resources in ethically responsible ways
- Reflect spiritually on their clients, themselves, and the therapeutic relationship
- Use supervision and consultation to improve care of their patients and support their own development as therapists
- Understand the business of psychotherapy and be able to make a living
- Maintain ethical integrity and know how to consult with colleagues as ethical issues arise
- Work collaboratively with other providers of care
- Make appropriate referrals