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Practicum trainees receive individual caseload supervision from psychologists and doctoral interns jointly. As an APA-accredited and APPIC-member internship site, PAWS is committed to offering interns the opportunity to provide supervision. At the same time, we strive to ensure that practicum guidelines are followed and that all trainees receive high quality supervision. Thus, we utilize a co-supervision model whereby a psychologist and intern provide supervision to each practicum trainee for 1.5 hours weekly. Following our graded and sequential model of training, the psychologist takes the lead in supervising the practicum trainee during autumn quarter while the intern primarily observes. Then, in winter quarter, the intern takes the lead in supervising, while the psychologist continues to provide input, answer questions, and otherwise co-supervise. In spring quarter, the psychologist and intern continue co-supervising together, while the practicum trainee switches triads. This provides practicum trainees with the experience of working with new supervisors who may provide new perspectives, while maintaining the same overall structure and expectations. Doctoral interns providing supervision meet for 1 hour weekly with the psychologist for supervision-of-supervision.