Wesley Family Services is a non-profit organization that offers a variety of programs designed to empower the individuals, families, schools, and communities served through an unconditional commitment to transformational care. Services provided through the various locations within the agency include autism, behavioral health, education, and family services. Interns at Wesley Family Services will spend time at select outpatient offices and the two Approved Private Schools.

The K-8 School and High School includes an acute hospitalization, partial hospitalization, and outpatient levels of care that serves students from over 50 school districts in Western Pennsylvania with severe emotional and behavioral difficulties. The primary goal within the schools is to create a safe environment that meets each student’s education and therapeutic needs. Psychologists and interns work collaboratively to conduct comprehensive psychoeducational evaluations and functional behavior assessments to make data driven decisions regarding education placements, develop theoretically integrated case conceptualizations, and provide relevant recommendations for student educational, social, and emotional treatment within these non-traditional school settings. When applicable, interns will participate in Individualized Education Program (IEP) meetings, which typically consist of teachers, therapists, and educational therapeutic support staff, as well as team members from the student’s home school district. Facilitation of students’ social and emotional development are supported through individual and group therapy as well as individualized academic and behavioral interventions.  Client-centered and consultee-centered consultation to teachers and therapists within the two school settings are often utilized within various treatment teams to provide additional support to staff and students.

The Outpatient Program offers a variety of diagnostic evaluation and psychological testing related outpatient services.  In the outpatient setting, comprehensive psychological evaluations and best practice evaluations are conducted in order to provide diagnostic clarification as well as to recommend applicable and appropriate services and interventions for the child and family.  This process includes collaboration and consultation with multidisciplinary treatment team members both internally and externally (e.g. BHRS staff, outpatient therapists, service coordinators, family-based services teams, etc.)  There are a wide range of diverse mental and behavioral health referrals, however, due to a large autism population, the outpatient setting includes an opportunity to develop specialized skills with individuals on the autism spectrum, including proficiency on diagnostic classification of ASD, as well as service recommendations specific to this population.  Additional specialty area opportunities include foster care, Parent Child Interaction Therapy, individual and family outpatient therapy, group therapy, or neuropsychological assessment. Ongoing research opportunities within the various outpatient programs are consistently provided.

Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh Department of Transplant Psychology focuses on providing psychological services as part of the multidisciplinary assessment and management of psychosocial functioning among solid organ transplant candidates and recipients. As transplant psychologists we surround the patient and family with support, information, and education. Our goal is to provide on-going support to our pre- and post-transplant patients and address social-emotional or behavioral needs. Transplant psychologists also serve as psychosocial liaisons to all solid organ and related transplant teams, including kidney, liver, small bowel, heart, lung and multi-visceral. Program faculty have expertise across a broad range of behavioral medicine domains, including psychological/neuropsychological assessment, medication adherence, adjustment to illness, multicultural aspects of medical management, developmental delay, chronic pain, and neurocognitive impairment within chronic disease populations. Specific responsibilities of the intern include (but are not limited to):                                       

• School psychological services that include collaboration and consultation with schools and districts for the purpose of transition back into educational settings post-transplant.  Activities include creation of 504 plans, consultations with school personnel, psychoeducation about transplant and needed academic accommodations 

• Pretransplant evaluations to determine psycho-social functioning and readiness of candidates and their families for a transplant based on their psychosocial stability and how likely they are to adhere to medical directions. 

• Inpatient psychological consults of pre- and post-transplant patients. 

• Outpatient annual psychosocial evaluations of post-transplant patients to monitor patients for psychosocial, developmental, and/or academic concerns or adherence related issues. 

• Outpatient individual or family therapy with pre- and post-transplant patients (virtual and/or in-person). 

The mission at The Psychology Loft is to provide quality comprehensive psychological services to children and adults in the Pittsburgh area. At The Psychology Loft, we place a significant value on a systems-based approach - taking into account how the individual's family, educational, vocational, and community environments interact. Acknowledging the importance that each system plays in an individual's life is essential to understanding the current needs and approaches that will best serve the person. We also address all referrals with a strength-based orientation and utilize these strategies to create treatment plans and goals. Services offered include intervention (group and individual therapy, parent training, and family therapy), assessment (neuropsychological and psychological evaluations, forensic evaluations, threat or risk assessments), and consultation with schools and businesses within the community. It's our goal to make sure each person is able to capitalize on their strengths in order to equip themselves with the necessary emotional tools to cope with life's stressors, thrive in various environments, and reach their full potential.