Program
Placements
Stipends, and Appointments
Staff and Administration of HMS/MMHC Clinical Psychology
Internship Program
Founded
in 1912 as the Boston Psychopathic Hospital, the Massachusetts Mental
Health Center was one of the nation’s first public psychiatric teaching
hospitals. An agency of the Department of Mental Health and an academic
division of the Harvard Medical School Department of Psychiatry at the
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, the MMHC has a proud history of
providing enlightened treatment to the seriously mentally ill as well
as excellent training and research in a rigorous academic program.
The
predoctoral internship program in clinical psychology at MMHC has been
part of that tradition for close to 40 years. The program provides training
in the major roles of the contemporary psychologist and the mastery
of skills essential to the practice of psychology.
The
program aims to develop reliable competencies in evaluation and treatment
planning, psychotherapy, psychodiagnostic testing, and neuropsychological
testing through supervised clinical experience, seminars, and relevant
readings. This training requires a substantial time commitment to the
core curriculum for psychology interns in the Psychology Department
and a sustained, year-long involvement with one or two clinical placements.
At
the clinical placement the intern works on a multidisciplinary team
and is responsible for providing individual therapy, both short-term
and long-term; family interviewing and family therapy; group therapy;
intake evaluation; crisis intervention; case administration; and consultation
with community agencies.
The
program includes experience with populations which have typically been
underserved, particularly the chronically and severely mentally ill.
Each intern has clinical placements on both the Partial Hospital program
and in the outpatient programs.
The
psychology faculty at MMHC have a strong interest in psychological and
neuropsychological assessment. These are emphasized in the internship
and also in an annual testing conference.
Psychology
has substantial representation at MMHC. There are the members of the
internship faculty, the clinical psychology interns and fellows, neuropsychology
fellows, the psychologists on the clinical and administrative staff,
and other psychologists engaged in research. Psychologists enjoy mutually
respectful and responsible relationships with other mental health professionals
at MMHC.
The predoctoral internship
program in clinical psychology at MMHC is fully accredited by the Committee
on Accreditation of the American Psychological Association. It is a
member of the Association of Psychology
Postdoctoral and Internship Centers (APPIC) and abides by its regulations.
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This program is fully accredited
by the American Psychological Association.
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The Core Training
Program
All interns, regardless of
their unit assignments, share these core training program elements:
- The Core Curriculum
- Other Didactic Activities
- Supervision
- Training in Psychological Testing
The Core Curriculum
Psychological Testing Seminar – This
seminar gives interns a theoretical framework for psychological testing
as well as advanced clinical experience with test data. The seminar covers
psychodiagnostic testing and neuropsychological testing, and focusses
on the conjunction of the two in our patient population. The seminar is
taught by June G. Wolf, Ph.D. and Bill Stone, Ph.D.
Psychotherapies Seminar
– This seminar
builds on the clinical work of interns, placing it in the context of
basic psychodynamic principles. It includes the study of the history,
methods, and observations of supportive-expressive psychotherapy applied
across the spectrum of psychopathology. Interns present on-going clinical
material for discussion. It is taught by Christopher Morse, Ph.D. and
includes a sequence on short-term psychotherapy taught by Jennifer Stone,
Ph.D.
Didactic
Group Experience – Interns
take part in a weekly training group under the leadership of Max Day,
M.D.
Clinical
Psychology Conference – This
weekly meeting provides an opportunity for the internship faculty, interns,
and fellows to meet and discuss programmatic issues, topics in ethics
and professional development, issues of diversity, and clinical material.
It includes a special series on working in a culturally diverse setting.
Interns’
Lunch – Interns
get together weekly to provide mutual support and comradeship.
Other Didactic Activities
Interns
participate in a weekly clinical case conference which features case
presentations and consultants from inside and outside MMHC.
Weekly
Longwood Area Grand Rounds cover a variety of clinical, research, and
theoretical issues in neuroscience, CBT and DBT, psychoanalysis, psychiatry,
and psychology.
Interns
may elect to attend psychopharmacology lecture series, behavior therapy
seminar, group therapy seminar, Dialectical Behavior Therapy seminar,
or the advanced neuropsychology seminar.
Within
the general structure provided by the interns’ placements, there is
some flexibility to arrange activities in accordance with individual
training needs. However, most interns find this year quite demanding
of time and effort, and must make choices among the many options for
additional clinical, didactic, and research commitments.
Supervision
This
internship has a long-standing commitment to intensive supervision by
senior staff psychologists and psychiatrists. Each intern is assigned
a Training Supervisor for guidance and general overview of his program.
At least four other therapy supervisors are assigned as well as special
supervision for group, couples, and family therapy. The intern will
typically have one-and-one-half hours per week of testing supervision
and six hours per week of therapy /administration supervision. The theoretical
orientation of teaching and supervision is a mixture of psychodynamic,
biological, and cognitive-behavioral. In all supervision, there is a
strong emphasis on understanding the contemporary interpersonal and
sociopolitical contexts in which patients’ difficulties arise and must
be treated.
Training in Psychological
Testing
Testing
is an important part of training at MMHC, and the contributions made
by interns are valued. Psychology faculty practice and teach assessment
and offer an annual assessment conference. Each trainee has weekly supervision,
and the psychological testing seminar offers additional opportunity
for presentation of cases and discussion of didactic material relating
to research and to clinical use of psychological tests.
Interns
receive an introduction to neuropsychological testing and some clinical
experience is available if elected. Intensive training in neuropsychology
is offered in two postdoctoral positions.
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Placements
Interns’ clinical placements
include the Partial Hospital, Continuing Care outpatient service, the
Southard Clinic, and the Intake and Evaluation Service.
The Partial Hospital
has two teams. One, the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy team, treats
primarily patients with severe and persistent mental illness. The other
team, the Dialectical Behavior Therapy team, is an intensive DBT program,
which serves mainly patients with borderline personality disorder and
other severe personality disorders.
The Outpatient
Service is the Department of Mental Health outpatient service
for about 1,000 patients. These patients have been deemed eligible for
DMH services, usually signifying a diagnosis of major mental illness,
considerable functional impairment, and no means to obtain treatment
in the private sector. This service includes specialized DBT and problematic sexual behavior outpatient teams.
The Southard Clinic
is a small outpatient clinic, which is staffed entirely by trainees.
It exists in order to provide trainees with experience with a healthier
outpatient psychotherapy population. Patients are referred from local
college counseling centers, community health centers, and practitioners
in the community. Southard patients are expected to need no rehabilitation,
nor other services beyond psychotherapy and psychopharmacology.
The Intake and Evaluation
Service is the entry point for the entire MMHC system. Interns
and other trainees perform initial evaluations and arrange dispositions
under the supervision of a staff psychiatrist.
In all of these settings,
interns work on multi-disciplinary teams and have full clinical responsibility
for the patients they are assigned.
We may also offer rotations
in neuropsychological testing and CBT/DBT next year.
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Fellowships, Stipends,
and Appointments
Fellowships
Although
the predoctoral internship is a one-year program, MMHC offers many opportunities
for post-internship training. Two two-year fellowships in Neuropsychology
are regularly available, as are two Murphy Fund fellowships in MMHC outpatient programs. Other fellowships are available depending
on funding from year to year. There are often research fellowships at
MMHC and a fellowship in the CRC, which combines clinical and research
opportunities.
Stipends and Appointments
Predoctoral
stipends, supported by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts through a training
grant to the Harvard Medical School, are $21,100. Fellows’ stipends
are $31,000 first year and $33,250 second year.
The
internship carries an appointment as Clinical Fellow in Psychology in
the Department of Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School/Beth Israel
Deaconess Medical Center. Interns receive four weeks of vacation. Interns
are employees of, and benefits are provided by, Beth Israel Deaconess
Medical Center. A substantial part of the cost of health insurance is
included and athletic privileges and other resources of the university
are available on a fee basis.
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Staff and Administration
of HMS/MMHC Clinical Psychology Internship Program
The Clinical Psychology staff
includes the following members:
Christopher
Morse, Ph.D. (Adelphi
U.) – Supervising Psychologist, MMHC; Instructor in Psychology, Harvard
Medical School.
Daniel
Perschonok, Ph.D. (Harvard
U.) – Supervising Psychologist, MMHC; Lecturer on Psychology, Harvard
Medical School.
Matthew
Robinson, Ph.D. (Temple
U.) – Supervising Psychologist, MMHC; Instructor in Psychology, Harvard
Medical School.
Larry
J. Seidman, Ph.D. (Boston
U.) – Director, Commonwealth Research Center , MMHC; Professor
of Psychology, Harvard Medical School.
William
Stone, Ph.D. (U. Virginia)
– Director of Clinical Neuropsychology, MMHC; Assistant Professor of
Psychology, Harvard Medical School.
June
G. Wolf, Ph.D. (Boston U.), ABPP (Clinical) – Director of
Psychology and Director Clinical Psychology Internship Program, MMHC;
Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School.
Ekaterina V. Burdo, Psy.D. (Wright State U.) – Supevising Psychologist, MMHC, HMS pending.
Rosaura Cruz-Niemiec, Ph.D. (Carlos Albizu U.) – Supervising
Psychologist, MMHC; Instructor in Psychology, Harvard Medical
School.
Sharon Kelley, Psy.D. ( U. Hartford) – Supervising Psychologist, MMHC; Instructor in Psychology, Harvard Medical School.
Joseph Rodriguez, Ed.D (Harvard U.) – Supervising Psychologist, MMHC; HMS pending.
Stacy Simon, Ph.D. (U. Massachusetts, Amherst) – Supervising Psychologist, MMHC; HMS pending.
The adjunct teaching staff
in psychology includes:
Stephen
Behnke, J.D., Ph.D. (Yale
U., U. of Michigan) – Supervising Psychologist; MMHC; Director, Ethics
Office, American Psychological Association.
Richard
Bromfield, Ph.D. (U. of
North Carolina) – Supervising Psychologist, MMHC; Instructor in Psychology,
Harvard Medical School.
Brina
Caplan, Ph.D. (Harvard
U.) – Supervising Psychologist, MMHC; Instructor in Psychology, Harvard
Medical School.
Gaiana
Germani, Ph.D. (U. Mass.
Amherst) – Supervising
Psychologist,
MMHC; Instructor in Psychology, Harvard
Medical
School.
Ted Grossbart, Ph.D. (Boston U.) – Supervising Psychologist, MMHC; Instructor in Psychology, Harvard Medical School.
Sherri
Kauderer, Ph.D. (St. John’s
U.) – Supervising Psychologist,MMHC; Instructor in Psychology, Harvard
Medical School.
Mary
Kiely, Ph.D. (U. Mass.
Boston) – Supervising Psychologist, MMHC; Instructor in Psychology,
Harvard Medical School.
Jody
Leader, Ph.D. (Boston U.) – Supervising Psychologist,
MMHC;
Instructor in Psychology, Harvard Medical School.
Lois
Levin, Ph.D. (Boston U.)
– Supervising Psychologist, MMHC; Instructor in Psychology, Harvard
Medical School.
John
Miner, Psy.D. (MSPP) –
Supervising Neuropsychologist, MMHC; Instructor in Psychology, Harvard
Medical School.
Gary
Pfeifer, Ph.D. (U. of
Chicago) – Chief Psychologist, Brookline Mental Health Center ; Instructor
in Psychology, Harvard Medical School.
Lynissa
Stokes, Ph.D. (Boston U.) – Supervising Psychologist, MMHC;
Instructor in Psychology, Harvard Medical School.
Jennifer
Stone, Ph.D. (Boston U.)
– Supervising Psychologist, MMHC; Instructor in Psychology, Harvard
Medical School.
Rosely Traube, Ph.D. (Boston U.) – Supervising Psychologist, MMHC; Instructor in Psychology, Harvard Medical School.
Ed
Wang, Psy.D. (U. of Denver)
– Supervising Psychologist, MMHC; Clinical Instructor in Psychology,
Harvard Medical School , Director of the Office of Multicultural Affairs,
DMH.
Cheryl
Weinstein, Ph.D. (Boston
Coll.) – Supervising Neuropsychologist, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical
Center ; Instructor in Psychology, Harvard Medical School.
Massachusetts Mental Health
Center Administration:
Laura
Rood , R.N., C.S., Center
Director MMHC; Instructor in Administration, Harvard Medical School.
Margaret Guyer Deason,
Ph.D., Director, Continuing Care Service MMHC; Instructor in
Psychology, Harvard Medical School.
Beth
Israel Deaconess Administration:
Mary
Anne Badaracco, M.D., Chief, Department of Psychiatry, BIDMC; Bullard Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School.
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Application Information
Follow this link to the Application
Form
Qualifications
of Applicants
The
predoctoral internships in clinical psychology are for advanced students
(fourth year and beyond) in good standing in APA-approved programs in
clinical psychology. Such standing assumes that applicants will have
the following preparation: supervised clinical practicum experience,
as well as courses in personality theory, diagnostic psychological testing
including projective methods, psychotherapy, abnormal psychology or
psychopathology, and research methods. Applicants with doctorates in
fields of psychology other than clinical should consult the APA guidelines
on retraining requirements.
Minority
Group Applicants – African-American
and Spanish-speaking psychologists are in considerable demand in the
Boston area, and internship applications from members of these and other
minority groups are especially encouraged.
Application
and Selection Procedures
The
deadline for applications and all supporting materials is November 6,
2006.
Please
use the APPIC application, as well as our supplemental application.
Please forward a c.v., work sample, three letters of recommendation,
and all graduate and undergraduate transcripts. We would also like you
to include an autobiography which is a personal history. If your APPIC autobiography is such, there is no need to write an additional one. Please list on the Massachusetts Mental Health
Center supplemental application which dates you can come to interview.
It
is not possible for us to interview all who apply; we must restrict
interviews to those students whose interests and qualifications appear
to be most compatible with our program. Therefore, interviews will be
scheduled only after applications have been screened. After screening,
applicants will be invited for interviews if appropriate.
Applicants
will be notified whether they will be interviewed by December 1, 2006.
This year, we will interview applicants on the three days listed on
the application. Please indicate on the application all dates you would
be available for interview.
All
internships begin on July 1, 2007 and end on June 30, 2008.
Applications should be addressed
to:
Director of Psychology
Massachusetts Mental Health Center
180 Morton Street
Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
Applicants will be informed
of their status through the matching program adopted by APPIC.