PRC

Name of Program: Psychiatric Recovery Center (PRC) Psychology Fellowship Program

Director: Jennifer McKelvey, Ph.D., Anna Costakis MD; Leora Heckelman, Ph.D. (Adult Fellowship Core Course Director)

General Description: The Psychiatric Recovery Center (PRC) Psychology Fellowship is a 1-year, full-time training opportunity starting July 1, 2015 for one Fellow per year. Its basic clinical activities include: Intake; Evaluation and Assessment; Individual Psychotherapy; Group Therapy; Crisis Intervention; Supervision; and Consultation with mental health, social service and health professionals, within and outside the PRC.

The PRC is an intensive outpatient program offering services designed to meet the needs of individuals with severe and persistent mental illness. A work and recovery model informs the treatment, and supports the goal of engagement in vocational, pre-vocational, or educational activity. PRC offers: intake evaluation; acute symptom management and crisis intervention; psychopharmacologic management; individual psychotherapy; group psychotherapy (i.e. respectively informed by CBT, DBT, process approach, and others); family therapy; vocational assessment and rehabilitation, social services and entitlements needs assessment, linkage and case management; medical assessment and treatment; and disposition planning, linkage and follow-up. Patients may receive psychodiagnostic assessment to help clarify diagnosis and level of functioning. This is a multidisciplinary environment – in which the Fellow works with psychiatric residents, psychology interns and externs, nurses, social workers, case managers, and occupational therapists. The Fellow also works on CQI projects. On a weekly basis, the PRC Director, and the PRC Psychology Fellowship Director, each provide individual supervision for all interventions and therapies (individual, group and crisis). Weekly, the OPC Intake Director provides supervision for once-weekly intakes. For each psychological assessment, the PRC Psychology Fellowship Director provides individual supervision.

Didactics offered: On a weekly basis, the Fellow participates in the PRC-specific didactics, for the psychology fellow, the psychology intern, and psychology extern. All Adult Track Fellows also participate in the following didactic seminars, under Leora Heckelman, Ph.D.: Case conference (viewing target cases from different theoretical/technical perspectives); Specialty didactic modules on newly evolving, evidence-based intervention modalities; Intensive psychoanalytically-driven Psychotherapy Case Conference; and Supervision seminar – including discussion of theories of supervision, an opportunity to supervise, and live supervision of supervision.

Qualifications: Fellows must have completed their dissertation defense in an APA-accredited Ph.D. or Psy.D program in clinical or counseling psychology, and completed their APA-accredited psychology internship.

To Apply: By March 15, 2015, please email (1) Cover Letter, stating your interests and qualifications for this Fellowship; (2) Curriculum Vita; and (2) Letters of Recommendation to both Dr. Jennifer McKelvey (JMcKelvey@chpnet.org) and Dr. Susan Tross (stross@chpnet.org)

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