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Biofeedback Clinic and Certification Center

The Biofeedback Clinic and Certification Center is a community clinic that provides psychophysiological interventions for such stress-related problems as anxiety, teeth grinding, insomnia, headaches, and test anxiety.

Services & Programs

The Biofeedback Clinic & Certification Center (BCCC) offers a variety of personalized treatment programs that can help reduce stress and improve overall health. The clinic offers personalized coaching proven to enhance performance and productivity in academics, athletics, and business. The center treats clients from on campus and in the surrounding region.

As a graduate student in the clinical psychology doctoral program, you can gain experience, training, and certification in the BCCC through clinical rotations, practicum and internships, all under faculty supervision.

Certification

One of the largest trainers of biofeedback specialists in the world, BCCC offers face-to-face and online training leading to a certification accredited by the Biofeedback Certification International Alliance (BCIA). As a BCIA-approved training facility, the center can assist you, as a graduate student, along with therapists, in completing the requirements for certification in general biofeedback.

Child Therapy Clinic

Clinical Field Experience

At our Widener Child Therapy Clinic (WCTC), you will gain invaluable internship experience serving area youth and their families, which will help prepare you for your professional pursuits. As a fourth- or fifth-year clinical psychology doctoral intern – under the supervision of faculty – you will provide contextually-based care to clients and will help manage the administrative operation of the clinic.

Clinic Services

Services offered at the clinic include diagnostic assessment and delivery of therapy to children, adolescents, and families from diverse backgrounds who present with a range of common concerns, including:

• ADHD, behavior problems, aggression
• Learning disabilities and executive functioning difficulties
• Depression and anxiety
• Coping with medical illness
• Family conflict

As a WCTC clinician you will also assess systemic factors that support and undermine families’ abilities to engage in treatment, designing and implementing a treatment-engagement plan to bolster participation in meaningful ongoing treatment.

As part of the team, you will also work to identify resources (e.g., medical, legal, economic) available to families, and work with families to connect them with those resources, as needed.

Research

Through the clinic, you will have the opportunity to engage in a number of applied research projects designed to evaluate the use of empirically supported treatments with diverse and underserved populations.

https://www.widener.edu/about/campus-community-resources/clinics-centers/child-therapy-clinic

Chester Community Clinic

Serving the Community

As a Widener student, you will give back to the community by working at our interprofessional pro bono clinic, the Chester Community Clinic — one of the first student-run physical therapy pro bono clinics in the country and a model for others. In the past three years, the clinic has grown interprofessionally to add occupational therapy, clinical psychology, and social work services. In the next year, speech-language pathology services will be added.

Under the supervision of licensed clinicians, including many Widener alumni, you will take charge of the treatment of clients, providing professional care, while at the same time broadening your own clinical experience and expertise. You will also fill leadership positions, helping to run various administrative aspects of the clinic.

The clinic helps us get our techniques down. It builds confidence, aids us through different experiences, and sets us apart from other schools. And it opens our eyes to the things our clients deal with. — Justin Gilfillan ‘19

Providing Interprofessional Care

At the clinic, you will, with other health professional students, work to meet client needs holistically and collaboratively.  Learn from such fellow professional graduate students as:

• Physical therapy students
• Occupational therapy students
• Graduate clinical psychology students
• Graduate social work students
• Speech language pathology students

For more information please click on the following link: https://www.widener.edu/about/campus-community-resources/clinics-centers/chester-community-clinic

Widener Child Development Center

Our Mission

In 1981, the Child Development Center was founded to provide quality early childhood education for young children. Our program strives to be a model early childhood program for families, future teacher candidates, university students and the community. Our center is available for university students and individuals in the community to engage in clinical field experience, observation, lesson presentations, research and information sharing and staff development. Our program continuously fosters building strong partnerships with children, parents, families, students, faculty and the community. Our program celebrates diversity, traditions, cultures and individual differences.