CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY INTERNSHIP PROGRAM Brochure for ...

Additionally, Continued Day Treatment Program (CDTP) is an outpatient comprehensive day
treatment program for adults who are 55 years and older and diagnosed with a mental disorder.
CDTP provides psychiatric consultations and group psychotherapy for mental health
stabilization as well as addressing aging-related issues and enhancing socialization skills. There
may be a possibility to participate in the Day Treatment Program, but this is not guaranteed .
Dialectical Behavior Therapy Program is a group of clinicians committed to conducting
dialectical behavior therapy with adult patients with borderline personality disorder as well as
other patients with chronic emotional instability or personality disorders. The team has been
developed by four psychologists who completed intensive training in DBT. The program
currently has three DBT skills groups (one in Spanish) that psychology trainees (interns or
externs) lead themselves or co-lead with psychology staff. Interns attend a DBT consultation
team meeting on a weekly basis, co-lead a skills group during at least part of the year and are
assigned individual DBT cases under supervision by a DBT-trained clinician. DBT is a year
long placement for interns. (Interns are expected to read 1 and familiarize themselves with M.
Linehan’s Cognitive Behavioral Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder and her Skills
Training Manual for Treating Borderline Personality Disorder.)
The Mobile Crisis Unit (MCU) is designed to provide rapid response to psychiatric crises & to
resolve or ameliorate the crises in order to support optimum functioning in the community and
prevent hospitalization whenever possible. Psychiatric evaluation and treatment is provided in
the home for adults, children, and families. Other services include: Crisis intervention
counseling, short-term individual and family therapy; concrete and casework services;
information and referral to appropriate community services; Consultation and collaboration
with community agencies and service providers & Involuntary hospital transport initiated for
individuals who are in crisis and can not remain safely in the community. The mental health
clinicians of this innovative program continue the mission by providing crisis services to those
who have difficulty accessing traditional clinic models and are the most socially vulnerable.
Outreach services have been designed to enhance optimum function within the community
while simultaneously providing support during transition to out-patient care. Interns do a
yearlong placement in the MCU one morning a week and go out on mobile crisis visits.
The Parent-Infant Program offers a unique therapeutic experience for expecting parents and
parents of young children who are experiencing the stress of mental illness and emotional
instability. The program’s goal is to foster healthy parent-child interactions, to stabilize the
parent’s emotional disorder and behavioral symptoms that interfere with healthy childcare, and
to stimulate the emotional and cognitive development of the child at risk through the preschool
years. Opportunities for participation in this program may exist for interns, but it is not
guaranteed.
Turning Points is a school-based mental health program serving three middle schools housed
in the Corlears Complex building across the street from Gouverneur Healthcare Services. In
existence since 1992, it is staffed by a psychologist and a social worker who provide individual
1 It will be helpful for interns to begin to familiarize themselves with these books before starting internship.
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