Family compass offers a full-year affiliate-site program for graduate students in the clinical psychology program of George Washington University. Students are on site at the practice one day a week, and have the opportunity to work with children from ages 2 to 12 that are typically developing but have social and emotional difficulties, and also those in the Neurodevelopment Program for Early Intervention who are developmentally delayed or on the autistism spectrum.
The students participate in one hour of supervision per week. The role of the student is either to work independently with a family or to share cases with the supervisor. This might include conducting home and/or school visits to address therapeutic goals; such as improving a child’s play skills, social communication, and emotion regulation, as well as improving parent-child, parent to parent, and family interactions overall.
The graduate students participating in the 2015-2016 academic year: