A. Program Training Aim:
The Stony Brook University Consortium Internship Program (SBU-CIP) is a three-member agencies: the Leonard Krasner Psychological Center (KPC), a psychology training clinic associated with the doctoral program in clinical psychology, Department of Psychology (College of Arts and Sciences), the Mind Body Clinical Research Center (MBCRC), an outpatient facility associated with the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Health (Stony Brook Medicine), and the Stony Brook University Hospital (SBUH; Stony Brook Medicine), Long Island’s premier academic medical center and an academic hospital that provides general health services to the community, and which serves as the region’s only tertiary care center and Regional Trauma Center, among other medical specialties.
The SBU-CIP is designed to provide the interns with a “generalist” training experience across the three member sites and associated programs, including experience in general outpatient psychological care, behavioral medicine, inpatient services, and integrated care. The program is designed to encourage equal participation in both main outpatient programs offered at the KPC and MBCRC sites, main inpatient programs at the SBUH as well as participation in one or more of the training concentrations at the two member agencies, which may include a time limited rotation and/or a year-long participation, depending on the interests and career goals of the intern and the characteristics of the concentration. The SBU-CIP targets patients across the lifespan.
The internship includes approximately 40 hours of training weekly, including didactics/clinical workshops, supervision (receiving and providing supervision to less experienced trainees), and administrative responsibilities, for a total of 2000 doctoral internship training hours.
B. Training Opportunities
1) Outpatient Programs
Main outpatient programs include an average of 10 hours of face-to-face client contact weekly combined across sites. Interns are expected to complete a minimum of 2 integrative assessments at the KPC, including psychoeducational and psychodiagnostic evaluations, evaluations for ADHD, disability determinations, and/or mental health clearance with children, adolescents, and/or adult populations. The main outpatient programs are:
KPC: Psychological services are provided to clients across the lifespan and with a wide range of clinical problems. Specialized clinics offer training in CBT, Cognitive Behavioral Analysis System of Psychotherapy (CBASP) for chronic mood disorders, ER/P for anxiety disorders, integrative lifespan trauma treatment program, and psychological assessment.
MBCRC: Psychological services are provided to clients across the lifespan, including diagnostic assessments and individual CBT-based psychotherapy for mood and anxiety disorders. Specialty programs also include a full DBT program and group-based psychotherapy (Stress Management and Resilience Training, SMART), and training for bilingual, bicultural and multicultural care for Latine/x communities including Spanish-language services.
2) Inpatient Programs
Main inpatient programs include an average of 8 hours of face-to-face contact hours weekly. Interns will participate in three 4-month rotations (see list below).
Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program (CPEP). CPEP provides emergency psychiatric services to patients in need of psychiatric evaluation, acute intervention, and referral services. Interns work closely with a multidisciplinary team to evaluate and coordinate care.
Adult and Child Inpatient Psychiatry Units. In these units, interns work closely with psychologists and interdisciplinary teams to evaluate and stabilize patients, participating in patient rounds with the team and co-running skills groups. The adult unit is a self-contained 30-bed unit designed for the acute short-term stabilization treatment of patients presenting with severe mental illness, including suicidality, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, depression, and severe anxiety disorders. The child unit is a 10-bed unit, servicing youth aged 8-14.
Consultation Liaison (CL) Psychiatry. CL provides psychiatric consultation throughout the hospital, including medical and surgical inpatient units. Interns attend patient rounds with a multidisciplinary team and provide psychological evaluations, short term interventions, and consultation to patients and clinicians.
3) Minor Areas of Concentration
Minor areas of concentration involve a minimum of 4 hours of training activities weekly (range 4–8) across the whole period of the internship or for specified periods of time (e.g., 4 months). The minor programs/rotations include psychological assessment (administration and supervision of testing) at the KPC, and Obesity/Disordered Eating Clinic at the MBCRC.