AGENCY ADDRESS: 500 North Main Street Box 4, Summerville, SC 29483
AGENCY PHONE: (843) 871-4790        AGENCY FAX:  (843) 871-8579
 

CONTACT PERSON: Cathy Jaggars	PHONE: (843) 871-4790 ext. 118
	FAX: (843) 871-8579

DESCRIPTION OF AGENCY:
The Dorchester Alcohol and Drug Commission provides area residents with high quality, affordable evaluation, treatment, and prevention services for alcohol and other drug problems, as well as other personal or family issues that require counseling.

The DADC operates several different service areas including the Evening Intensive Outpatient Program, The Women's Intensive Outpatient program, Intensive Family Services, Court-Related services, and Dorchester Counseling Services.  The one internship slot available is in the Women's Intensive Outpatient Program (WIOP) service area.  WIOP is an intensive treatment program for women with primarily substance dependence diagnoses.  In addition to the substance-use diagnoses, many of these women also meet the criteria for another non-substance-use related psychiatric disorder, primarily mood and anxiety disorders, DSM-IV Axis II disorders.

TRAINING STRENGTHS:

• Regularly scheduled supervision for one hour per week plus processing of group with supervisor on daily basis
• Exposure to two clinicians responsible for WIOP treatment
• Substance use assessment experience
• Experience developing treatment plans
• Weekly treatment team/staff meetings
• Varied psychopathology among clients
• Very strong group experienc

• Outpatient
• Substance Abuse

• Adults only

•  Affective disorders
•  Substance Abuse
•  Anxiety disorders

• Regular group 4 times per week (Monday-Thursday 9:00am - 1:00pm)
• Continuing care group (Friday 9:00 - 10:30am)

• WIOP is primarily group treatment.  The group meets Monday through Tursday from 9:00am - 1:00pm and then the continuing care group meets Friday from 9:00 - 10:30am.

SUPERVISOR DEGREES:

• Kristen Shepherd, Ph.D. (Clinical Psychology)

•  Monday-Friday from 9:00am-5:00pm (students should plan to divide their hours across 3 - 4 days.)

•  Interview
• Vita/Resume

• 24 - 40 hours/week

• Regularly scheduled supervision that is treated with the same respect as therapy (e.g., no calls or interruptions except in an emergency)
• Both parties are responsible for contributing to the supervision agenda
• Supervisor reviews and co-signs all documentation
• Appropriate reading material provided to augment direct experiences
• Regular discussion of conceptualization of treatmednt and pathology of clients in the program
• Interns are encouraged to develop own philosophy of treatment
• Regular discussion of ethical issues
• By the end of the internship students should be able to perform many tasks independently, so across time, less and less direction by the supervisor.