Common use of Purpose and Mission Clause in Contracts

Purpose and Mission. The WCU clinic is a training site associated with the WCU doctoral program in clinical psychology. Therapists are clinical psychology graduate students who are supervised by clinical staff and faculty. Your therapist will provide you with the name of his or her supervisor. All evaluation and therapy sessions are video recorded for the purposes of student training. The therapist, supervisor and small team of clinical graduate students may view the tapes and discuss your case as part of their training. All recordings will be deleted within 30 days. The only exception is if you otherwise grant permission to a faculty supervisor by a separate written consent. In addition to training, we also have a service mission. The WCU clinic is dedicated to providing quality psychological services to the greater West Xxxxxxx community at low cost. Unfortunately, we are not able to provide all services and may have a waiting list depending upon the availability of clinicians. If we cannot assist you, we will attempt to provide you with several referrals. PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES Psychotherapy is not easy to describe in a few general statements. Effective treatment depends upon a number of factors, including the establishment of a good therapist-client alliance. In an important respect, psychotherapy is dissimilar to visiting a physician in that it calls for more active effort on your part. For therapy to be most successful, you will have to work on the things we talk about both during the sessions and at home. Psychological treatment includes potential for some risk as well as benefits. Since therapy involves discussing unpleasant aspects of your life, you may experience uncomfortable feelings. On the other hand, psychological treatment has been known to produce many benefits such as a reduction in distress, solutions to specific problems, and better relationships. There can be no guarantees of what you will experience. The WCU clinic attempts to minimize risk by providing well-supervised and trained therapists and by conducting frequent evaluations of patient progress. The first few sessions will involve an evaluation of your needs. By the end of this evaluation period, your therapist will be able to offer you an initial impression of your needs and a plan for what treatment might include, if you decide to continue with therapy. If psychotherapy is begun, sessions are usually scheduled weekly as 50- minute sessions (one appointment hour of 50 minutes duration), unless you and your therapist agree to a different length or frequency. If you ever have any questions about procedures, you should discuss them with your therapist.

Purpose and Mission. The WCU clinic CMHS is a training site associated with the WCU doctoral program in clinical psychology. Therapists Clinicians are clinical psychology graduate students who are supervised by clinical staff and faculty. Your therapist student clinician will provide you with the name of his or her supervisor. All evaluation and therapy sessions are video recorded for the purposes of student training. The therapiststudent clinician, supervisor and small team of clinical graduate students may view the tapes recordings and discuss your case as part of their training. All recordings will be deleted within 30 60 days. The only exception is if you otherwise grant permission to a faculty supervisor by a separate written consent. In addition to training, we also have a service mission. The WCU clinic CMHS is dedicated to providing quality psychological services to the greater West Xxxxxxx community at low cost. Unfortunately, we are not able to provide all services and may have a waiting list depending upon the availability of student clinicians. If we cannot assist you, we will attempt to provide you with several referrals. PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT SERVICES Providing a thorough assessment/evaluation will include direct, face-to-face contact, interviewing, testing and/or completing questionnaires. It may also include time required for the reading of records, consultations with other psychologists/professionals, scoring of tests, interpreting results, and any other activities to support these services. In order for the evaluation to provide valid results, it is important that you help as much as you can by providing full answers and making an honest effort. If you have questions or concerns about the assessment or any of the procedures, the student clinician is available to discuss them. PSYCHOTHERAPY SERVICES Psychotherapy is not easy to describe in a few general statements. Effective treatment depends upon a number of factors, including the establishment of a good therapiststudent clinician-client patient alliance. In an important respect, psychotherapy is dissimilar to visiting a physician in that it calls for more as well as active effort on your partparticipation by the patient. For therapy to be most successful, you will have to work on the things we talk about both during the sessions and at home. Psychological treatment includes potential for some risk as well as benefits. Since therapy involves discussing unpleasant aspects of your life, you may experience uncomfortable feelings. On the other hand, psychological treatment has been known to produce many benefits such as a reduction in distress, solutions to specific problems, and better relationships. There can be no guarantees of what you will experience. The WCU clinic CMHS attempts to minimize risk by providing well-supervised and trained therapists student clinicians and by conducting frequent evaluations of patient progress. The first few sessions will involve an evaluation of your needs. By the end of this evaluation period, your therapist student clinician will be able to offer you an initial impression of your needs and a plan for what treatment might include, if you decide to continue with therapy. If psychotherapy is begun, sessions are usually scheduled weekly as 50- 50-minute sessions (one appointment hour of 50 minutes duration), unless you and your therapist student clinician agree to a different length or frequency. If you ever have any questions about procedures, you should discuss them with your therapiststudent clinician.