Assessment and Treatment Skills

Developing competence in assessment and psychotherapy represents the core goal for the internship program at Montefiore Medical Center. During training, interns receive intensive supervision to acquire a wide range of treatment and assessment skills to be applied in various clinical settings and modalities.

Assessment

Treatment

Modalities

	Psychology Interns at lunch with Grand Rounds Speaker Martin Franklin, PhD.

Our faculty train interns in all the major schools of psychological thought and treatment, and interns participate in extended seminars on psychoanalytic psychotherapy, advanced cognitive behavior therapy, and dialectical behavior therapy. We believe in teaching principles and theory, as well as specific interventions. Many of our faculty have been involved in the development and promulgation of empirically supported treatments, and others are strong proponents of psychoanalytic and other types of psychotherapy. The following is a list of the empirically supported treatments used regularly and offered as part of the internship training. 

Cognitive Therapy for Panic Disorder (Clark, 1989)

Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Panic Disorder (Barlow & Cerny, 1988; Barlow & Craske, 1994; Craske & Barlow, 2001)

Exposure and Response Prevention for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (Foa & Franklin, 2001; Franklin et al., 2002; Kozak & Foa, 1997; Riggs & Foa, 1993)

Cognitive Therapy for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (McGinn & Sanderson, 1999; Salkovskis & Kirk, 1997)

Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Generalized Anxiety Disorder (Brown & Barlow, 2001; Brown et al., 1994)

Comprehensive Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Social Anxiety Disorder (Turk et al., 2001)

Cognitive Therapy for Social Anxiety Disorder (Clark & Wells, 1995; Scholing et al., 1996)

Prolonged Exposure for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (Foa et al., 2004; Foa & Rothbaum, 1998; Padesky et al., 2002)

Group Skills Training for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (Resnick & Calhoun, 2001)

Exposure Therapy for Specific Phobias (Bruce & Sanderson, 1998; Craske et al., 1997)

Cognitive Therapy for Major Depressive Disorder (Beck et al., 1979)

Group Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Depression (Lewinsohn, 1974; Lewinsohn et al., 1984)

Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder (Linehan et al., 1991; Linehan, 1993a; 1993b)

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Hypochondriasis (Warwick & Salkovskis, 2001)

Habit Reversal Training for Trichotillomania (Stanley & Mouton, 1996)

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Eating Disorders (Agras & Apple, 1997; Fairburn, 1985; Fairburn et al., 1993)

Guided Self-Help for Eating Disorders (Wilson & Pike, 2001)

Motivational Enhancement Therapy for Substance Use Disorders (Miller et al., 1994)

Relapse Prevention for Addictive Disorders (Marlatt & Gordon, 1985)

Harm Reduction Therapy for Substance Use Disorders (Tatarsky, 2002)

Cognitive Behavioral Coping Skills Therapy for Substance Use Disorders (Kadden et al., 1995)

Twelve Step Facilitation (Nowinski et al., 1995)

Neuropsychological Educational Approach to Remediation for Psychiatric Patients (Medalia et al. 1998; 2000a; 2000b; 2001; 2002a; 2002b)

Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Child and Adolescent Anxiety Disorders (Kendall, 1994; Kendall et al., 1992)

Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Child and Adolescent Trauma (Cohen et al., 2002; Deblinger & Heflin, 1996; Deblinger et al., 1996)

Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Suicidal, Self-Injurious Adolescents (Miller et al, 1997; 2004; in press; Rathus & Miller, 2002)

Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Child and Adolescent Depression (Clarke et al., 2001)

Coping with Depression Course for Adolescent Depression (Clarke et al., 1990)

Individual and Group CBT for Child/Adolescent Anger, Aggression, and Externalizing Disorders (Feindler, 1990; Ecton & Feindler, 1990; Feindler & Baker, 2004)

Problem Solving Skills Training for Children and Adolescents (Azrin et al., 2001; Shure, 2001)

Incredible Years Child and Parent Groups for Disruptive Behavior Disorders (Webster-Stratton, 1992; 2001; Patterson & Forgatch, 2005)

Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Classroom Management (Anhalt et al., 1998; Bahl et al., 2000)

For more information about our Psychology Internship Program,
call (718) 920-4797.