Psychology training program earns national recognition
August 2006
The McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School Psychology Internship Training Program has received top honors from the Association of Psychology Postdoctoral and Internship Centers (APPIC).
The APPIC is the governing body for psychology training programs nationwide. Each year, it presents three excellence awards: one in internship training, one in postdoctoral training and one in diversity training, to programs that have distinguished achievement in training and teaching. Philip Levendusky, PhD, director of McLean's Psychology Internship Program and Edmund Neuhaus, PhD, associate director for the program, were presented with the award for excellence in internship training earlier this week during the American Psychological Association annual conference in New Orleans.
In 2004, the American Psychological Association (APA) awarded the McLean program, which began in 1964, with its maximum seven-year accreditation. It was the first time the internship program was included in the new seven-year accreditation cycle and represented a significant recognition of the outstanding efforts of the program's faculty and trainees, according to Neuhaus.
"We continue to attract and recruit the top clinical psychology doctoral students from across the country and we look forward to continued success in the years to come," said Neuhaus and Gary Taylor, PhD, assistant training director.
Levendusky credits the strong faculty support for the program's accomplishments.
"Our faculty is among the nation's best and is consistently lauded for its leadership and excellence in education," said Levendusky. "They is the reason we receive hundreds of applicants a year from potential trainees. The APPIC award is added verification that McLean's Psychology Training Program is in the top echelon of training programs."