Train At Pine Rest | Psychology Predoctoral Internship
Clinical Placements
Clinical Placements
To provide interns with a rich breadth of training experiences, Pine Rest’s internship blends outpatient, inpatient, and residential placements, with services including individual, group, and couple psychotherapy, as well as psychological consultation.
Interns are welcome to apply to all 3 tracks. Tracks 137011 and 137012, in particular, are more similar than different. Both of these tracks have identical outpatient and substance use disorder placements.
Wednesday morning didactic training is common to all tracks. Finally, there is cross-training that occurs across the tracks and rotations.
Overview of our training placements:
Psychology Internship Tracks
Outpatient
For the entire internship experience, 16 hours per week are spent in a traditional outpatient setting within the Pine Rest Outpatient Clinic Network, whose mission is to provide high quality, cost effective clinical services using a multi-disciplinary model.
The outpatient clinic network provides comprehensive services to patients of all ages, which address a variety of presenting and identified problems. Services are tailored to address the needs of individuals who are depressed, experiencing anxiety-related disorders, marital and family dysfunctions, eating disorders, substance use disorders, impulse control problems, and other behavioral disorders.
Providing individual, couple, and family therapy are all part of the outpatient training experience. Interns build, maintain, and manage a professional caseload in a collegial environment with other psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, and professional counselors. Clinics are open daily, Monday through Friday.
As evening hours are popular appointment times for clients, interns are expected to work one evening per week at their clinic. Current sites include the Campus Clinic and the Forest Hills Clinic.
Assessment and Consultation
Interns have two 6-month assessment and consultation placements.
Neuropsychological Assessment – Interns will work alongside neuropsychologist Dr. Mark DeVries providing neuropsychological consultation to outpatients. These services are provided at Pine Rest’s Psychological Consultation Center (PCC). Interns will participate in clinical interviews, the administration and scoring of psychological and neuropsychological tests, feedback sessions, and report writing. If the intern is interested, there is also opportunity to complete assessments within our inpatient units.
Adult Hospital (inpatient psychiatric) Assessment) – Interns will complete inpatient assessments within our psychiatric hospital. Our inpatient psychiatry team refers patients various diagnostic clarification questions and assessments of current functioning. Persons in Pine Rest’s hospital often have complex presentations and co-occuring disorders. Many have severe and persistent mental illness. Dr. Justin Sides, ABPP supervises this rotation.
Group Therapy
Interns in this rotation will have two 6-month group therapy placements. Each placement is 4 hours/week:
SUD services—Interns work with our experienced substance use disorders team, co-facilitating group therapy for persons in sub-acute detox, intensive outpatient, and outpatient services.
InterActions—This program is for persons with severe or persistent mental illness, often helping them with the transition from an acute hospitalization to a return in their community.
Outpatient
For the entire internship experience, 16 hours per week are spent in a traditional outpatient setting within the Pine Rest Outpatient Clinic Network, whose mission is to provide high quality, cost effective clinical services using a multi-disciplinary model.
The outpatient clinic network provides comprehensive services to patients of all ages, which address a variety of presenting and identified problems. Services are tailored to address the needs of individuals who are depressed, experiencing anxiety-related disorders, marital and family dysfunctions, eating disorders, substance use disorders, impulse control problems, and other behavioral disorders.
Providing individual, couple, and family therapy are all part of the outpatient training experience. Interns have the opportunity to build, maintain, and manage a professional caseload in a collegial environment with other psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, and professional counselors. Clinics are open daily, Monday through Friday.
As evening hours are popular appointment times for clients, interns are expected to work one evening per week at their clinic. Interns in this rotation are placed at Pine Rest’s Southwest Clinic.
Assessment and Consultation
Assessment and Consultation—Interns will have two 6-month rotation placements. These are 16 hours/week:
Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) – Interns will collaborate on assessments of persons with possible autism spectrum disorders at Pine Rest’s Psychological Consultation Center (PCC) . This includes training with the ADOS-2 and other evidence-based practices for the assessment of autism (e.g. our use of a multidisciplinary team that includes a pediatrician and speech pathologist). Pine Rest’s assessment center is approved as a center of excellence by multiple third-party payers. Interns will also work with Pine Rest’s specialists in facilitating a PEERS group for young adults and/or adolescents. This rotation is supervised by Christina Russell.
Child Hospital Units – Interns will provide consultation and some group therapy services within the child and adolescent portion of Pine Rest’s Hospital and Residential Services programs. This placement is focused on psychological consultation but the intern will also lead and co-lead 1-2 groups within the Child and Adolescent Unit. Dr. Shannon Drabek supervises this rotation.
Group Therapy
Interns in this rotation will have two 6-month group therapy placements. Each placement is 4 hours/week:
SUD services—Interns work with our experienced substance use disorders team, co-facilitating group therapy for persons in sub-acute detox, intensive outpatient, and outpatient services.
Partial Hospitalization Program—Interns lead group therapy at Pine Rest’s partial hospitalization program. Interns may use materials already developed and used at Pine Rest or integrate or develop other evidence-based materials and interventions.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Outpatient Therapy
This intern provide services 3 days per week at Pine Rest’s Northwest Clinic, which serves as the hub for DBT treatment at Pine Rest.
Supervised by Dr. Elizabeth Cyr, Pine Rest’s outpatient DBT Services Coordinator, the intern will receive DBT foundational training, co-facilitate skills training groups, carry a caseload of DBT-informed clients, and enhance their understanding of DBT theory and practice by participating in weekly DBT consultation group with 8 DBT therapists.
DBT team members will offer monthly 1-hour lectures regarding DBT principles and concepts as they relate to clinical practice. Interns will participate in observance and eventual delivery of DBT skills training groups under the direction of DBT team members. Interns do not hold individual therapy clients enrolled in the full DBT program; however, they will carry their own outpatient caseload, including persons identified as likely to benefit from DBT-informed treatment, such as those who recently completed the formal DBT program. Interns will also provide general outpatient therapy to persons with widely varying presenting problems and demographics.
Psychological Consultation, Pine Rest Psychological Consultation Center
Interns will provide outpatient assessment/consultation services 1.5 days per week at Pine Rest’s Psychological Consultation Center (PCC). Staff at this assessment center include 15 psychologists, 3 neuropsychologists, and 2 neuropsychology fellows, as well as 4 psychiatrists specializing in forensic assessment.
The intern will have access to the PCC’s vast library of assessment materials and the expertise of psychologists and psychiatrists specializing in consultation services. Interns will complete psychological consultations for various diagnostic dilemmas and presenting problems. Patients will usually be referred by psychologists, psychiatrists, or social workers within Pine Rest’s system—or by primary care physicians. Dr. Shreya Doshi supervises this rotation.
