Pre-Master’s Mental Health Internship – Union City

We are committed to nurturing and integrating diversity training into all aspects of our pre master’s internship program by:
Providing interns with opportunities to work with patients who represent various aspects of diversity, including age, religion, gender, socioeconomic status, ethnicity, values, and lifestyle. Placing a high value on interns’ willingness to engage in self-reflection, and supporting the exploration of attitudes, beliefs and therapeutic postures that could impact clinical interactions. Maintaining a consistent focus in clinical supervision on expanding interns’ multicultural awareness and competence in the provision of psychotherapeutic services and providing guidance, training, and resources on topics such as mitigating unconscious bias, respecting every voice, and cultivating a sense of inclusion and belonging in the workplace.

Interns are encouraged to participate in the Regional Mental Health Training Program EID Committee’s advanced trainings on topics related to cultural sensitivity and competence along with a forum to reflect on and discuss their varied experiences in a safe environment.

Interns will attend mandatory Didactic Seminars offered by the Regional Training Program every Wednesday 9-10am. Didactics will cover a range of clinical and professional development topics as well as explore culturally responsive care. Interns will have access to both live and asynchronous exposure to various speakers and topics which are designed to meet their developmental needs over the course of the training year.

Interns will have access to both virtual and in person trainings as offered by KP. They will attend team meetings and receive weekly Case Consultation.

All interns are supervised by Licensed Master’s Level Mental Health Professionals who are responsible for overseeing the direct delivery of clinical services. The supervisor takes a role in developing the intern’s learning plan, monitoring their progress, and evaluating their training schedule. The supervisor is also responsible for completing the intern’s evaluation.

This track offers interns the opportunity to utilize evidence-based and multimodal treatment with adults. Interns are assigned cases from the broad and diverse patient population seeking services in the clinic anxiety and depressive disorders as well as trauma, aging, adjustment, work or life stress, and other issues. Interns will evaluate and diagnose mental health conditions based on DSM-5 and ICD-10 criteria, develop treatment plans, and learn how to articulate those plans to their patients. Interns will deliver interventions within a feedback informed care model that includes the use of outcomes monitoring at each session.

Individual adults with mild anxiety and depressive sx/dx. Modality will be time limited, focused behavioral treatment.

Emergency Department and Hospital Based Services. Will be conducting Safety (5150) Assessments with anyone MD is concerned for risk (DTS, DTO, GD). All ages and diagnoses. No treatment modality as this is an evaluation track.