For current and prospective students in the Ph.D. General Clinical Psychology Program at UNCW, the GPAC Clinic is a Training Center providing state-of-the-art training and supervision in psychological assessment and the provision of evidence-based behavioral health treatment services.
Special conditions surrounding the training function of the clinic (e.g., confidentiality within supervision) are explained to clients at the time of initial consultation. All services are provided under the supervision of a licensed psychologist. Medical records are maintained on a secure database called Titanium Schedule.
Our clinic contains four rooms which are utilized for therapy, and two assessment rooms. Each room is equipped with a video camera and microphone which records all therapy/assessment sessions. These recordings are used for education purposes between supervisors and students and are never released to other individuals. After recordings are analyzed by supervisors, feedback is given to the student clinician who performed the therapy/assessment, and recordings are destroyed. We take our clients’ privacy very seriously.
The clinic and department maintain a large inventory of testing and assessment measures. Additionally, the clinic has a growing reference library and an excellent collection of empirically-supported treatment manuals. Computerized administration and scoring are available for frequently used psychological tests. Library searches using Psych INFO and medical databases can be conducted on-site.