PSYCHOLOGY PRACTICUM TRAINING
Behavioral Health Partial Hospital Program
The Behavioral Health Partial (BHP) Hospital Program accepts two or three trainees per year. Trainees must be enrolled in a psychology doctoral program and preferably be in their second or third year. Trainees must commit to three days and 20 hours per week.
Practicum Training Includes:
- Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) training for individual clinical consultation and short-term therapy.
- CBT training in group therapy.
- Adaptation of empirically supported treatments to real-world practice.
- Psychosocial milieu treatment.
- Clinical supervision and didactic training in individual and group therapy.
- Multidisciplinary team approach within a program that is also the training site for the APA-approved pre-doctoral internship program.
- The Behavioral Health Partial Hospital Program also trains psychology post-doctoral fellows, psychiatry residents, social work interns and nursing students.
Applicants interested in a practicum in the BHP Hospital Program for the 2009-2010 academic year should send curriculum vitae, letter of interest and two letters of recommendations to the address below no later than Feb. 1, 2009.
Catherine Cresta
McLean Hospital - BHP
115 Mill Street - Belmont, MA 02478
617/855.3416 - fax 617/855.3661
crestac@mcleanpo.mclean.org