Selected interns will receive 2 half-time rotations. Below are the available positions (2 half-time rotations each) at KernBHRS, followed by a description of each half-time rotation.
200911 Forensic Adult/Foster Care
200912 Forensic Adult (CONREP)/ Adolescent Emphasis (JPPS)
200913 Forensic Adult (SPO)/ Children, Adolescents, and Families (CAF)
200914 Children, Adolescents, and Families (CAF)/ Adolescent Emphasis (Crossroads):
200915 Foster Care and Adolescent Emphasis (JPPS)
200916 Forensic Adult/Forensic Adult (CONREP)
Forensic Adult: The intern will gain experience working with judicially involved individuals with mental disorders. Interns will conduct court-ordered evaluations, competency to restoration training, and individual/group therapy. This rotation will also involve interdisciplinary work with a variety of other professionals in a rehabilitation model of court-mandated treatment emphasizing recovery and relapse prevention. Additionally, interns will conduct psychological testing and gain experience providing test feedback to clients and other professionals.
Foster Care: The intern will gain assessment and intervention experiences with child and adolescent foster youth. Treatment models include Trauma Focused CBT, Treatment Foster Care and Functional Family Therapy. This is a multidisciplinary team that also serves as a training site for the UCLA-Kern Psychiatric Residency and Child Psychiatry Fellowship programs. The team provides crisis intervention, assessment, treatment planning, and other outpatient treatment services to foster youth as well as foster families and birth families in a variety of settings including emergency shelter, school settings, family homes and in-office. Additionally, interns will conduct psychological testing and gain experience providing test feedback to clients and other professionals.
Forensic Adult/CONREP: The Conditional Release Program CONREP holds a contract with the Department of State Hospitals to provide comprehensive community outpatient treatment and supervision to court-ordered individuals while ensuring greater public safety, with the goal of reduction of risk and prevention of re-offense. Who are either: Incompetent to Stand Trial (PC1370);
Offenders with Mental Disorders (PC2962 or PC2970); Not Guilty by reason of insanity (PC1026 or WIC702.4). Interns provide comprehensive community outpatient treatment and supervision using Risk, Needs, Responsivity (RNR) principles for treatment.
Children’s Outpatient (CAF): The intern will become a member of an interdisciplinary child/adolescent/family outpatient mental health service team. The team provides a variety of services including Therapeutic Behavioral Services, Functional Family Therapy, Dialectic Behavior Therapy, and Aggression Replacement Training in the office, school settings and family homes. Additionally, interns will conduct psychological testing and gain experience providing test feedback to clients and other professionals.
Forensic Adult/SPO: This intern will also participate in the Supportive Pathways Opportunities (SPO) program, a mental health diversion program for judicially involved individuals found incompetent to stand trial (IST) for felony offenses. SPO identities felony incompetent to stand trial individuals who are amenable for outpatient treatment and diverts them from state hospital admission in the hopes that with intensive treatment, their criminal behaviors will decrease. Additionally, interns will conduct psychological testing and gain experience providing test feedback to clients and other professionals.
JPPS/Crossroads: The intern will serve juvenile offenders ages 13-18 in a juvenile hall facility. Training will include assessment, psychological testing, crisis intervention, and individual and group therapy with many different diagnostic categories. Interns will be exposed to various treatment issues and modalities, including crisis intervention, and will gain competence in legal and psychiatric settings. Additionally, interns will conduct psychological testing and gain experience providing test feedback to clients and other professionals.