Psychology Practicum Extern – South San Francisco

We are committed to nurturing and integrating diversity training into all aspects of our training program by:
Providing interns with opportunities to work with patients who represent various aspects of diversity, including age, religion, gender, disability status, 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 cultivating a sense of inclusion and belonging in the workplace.

Encouraging interns to participate in the Regional Mental Health Training Program Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity Committee’s seminars related to cultural sensitivity and competence as their schedule permits.

Regularly scheduled weekly didactic seminars are now organized and administered at the regional level for KP NorCal trainees. Doctoral externs are required to attend the one-hour weekly seminar. Diversity issues are always integrated into seminar presentations.

Our Regional Mental Health Training Program also sponsors training courses for continuing professional development. These courses and presentations are offered at select times during the year for all KP mental health trainees and staff at Kaiser Northern California Medical Centers. We bring in national experts and keynote speakers on a variety of cutting-edge topics in mental health treatment and research. Externs are required to attend these monthly regional trainings as their schedule permits. Training course dates and a list of speakers and topics can be found on the Regional Mental Health Training Programs website. In addition, many of these lectures are recorded and available under the continuing education lecture library.

Practicum externs will attend multidisciplinary team meetings. They may also attend feedback informed care case conferences and professional development seminars.

Telehealth Training:
Kaiser Permanente has greatly expanded its’ virtual presence, which will allow residents to fully train and practice in a variety of trailblazing platforms in telemedicine to provide accessible mental health care.

Each practicum extern is supervised by a licensed psychologist who meets with the extern for one hour a week in individual face-to-face supervision. This supervisor takes the lead role in developing the extern’s learning plan and schedule, supervising their clinical work, and helping them navigating the KP mental health system. This supervisor additionally is responsible for completing the extern’s evaluation after gathering input from other staff members who have worked with the extern. At some practicum training sites, externs may receive supplemental individual supervision from Psychology Postdoctoral Residents.

Practicum externs also receive 1 hour of group supervision per week for case presentation and consultation. Depending on the training site, externs may also participate in group supervision for psychological testing/ADHD assessment and in a cultural conversation/diversity seminar. Group supervision allows for vicarious learning and modeling as well as giving and receiving feedback. These experiences help the extern to develop both the collegial and supervisory aspects of their professional identity.

The Kaiser Permanente South San Francisco Practicum Externship Program offers education and training in an integrated health care system. In Adult Mental Health Services, Practicum Externs will work within a multidisciplinary team providing empirically supported treatments to a cultural and clinically diverse patient population.

Practicum Externs will conduct intake assessments, develop treatment plans, provide individual therapy, and co facilitate group therapy. Externs will evaluate and diagnose mental health disorders based on DSM-5 and ICD-10 criteria. The Extern will utilize evidence-based interventions within a short term and feedback informed care model. The Extern will utilize individual and group supervision and team specific case consultations for case formulation and treatment planning.

The Kaiser Permanente South San Francisco Practicum Externship Program offers education and training in an integrated health care system. In Child Mental Health Services, Practicum Externs will work within a multidisciplinary team providing empirically supported treatments to a cultural and clinically diverse patient population.

Practicum Externs will conduct intake assessments, develop treatment plans, provide individual therapy, and co facilitate group therapy. Externs will evaluate and diagnose mental health disorders based on DSM-5 and ICD-10 criteria. The Extern will utilize evidence-based interventions within a short term and feedback informed care model. The Extern will utilize individual and group supervision and team specific case consultations for case formulation and treatment planning.

The Kaiser Permanente South San Francisco Practicum Externship Program offers education and training in an integrated health care system. In Child Mental Health Services, Practicum Externs will work within a multidisciplinary team providing empirically supported treatments to a cultural and clinically diverse patient population. This Practicum Extern position is part generalist and part specialist. As a specialty provider the extern will work with patients with eating disorders and their families in the Pediatrics Department.

When in Pediatrics, the Practicum Extern will be part of an outpatient eating disorder clinic (Nourish). The Nourish team consists of a pediatrician, a psychologist and a dietitian. Nourish works collaboratively with patients who are at medical risk and utilizes caregiver involvement in refeeding and stabilization.

When in Child Mental Health Services, Practicum Externs will conduct intake assessments, develop treatment plans, provide individual therapy, and co facilitate group therapy. Externs will evaluate and diagnose mental health disorders based on DSM-5 and ICD-10 criteria. The Extern will utilize evidence-based interventions within a short term and feedback informed care model. The Extern will utilize individual and group supervision and team specific case consultations for case formulation and treatment planning.

The Kaiser Permanente South San Francisco Practicum Externship Program offers education and training in an integrated health care system. In Addiction Medicine and Recovery Services, Practicum Externs will work within a multidisciplinary team providing empirically supported treatments to a cultural and clinically diverse patient population.

Practicum Externs will conduct intake assessments, develop treatment plans, provide individual therapy, and co facilitate group therapy. Externs will evaluate and diagnose mental health disorders based on DSM-5 and ICD-10 criteria. The Extern will utilize evidence-based interventions within a feedback informed care model. The Extern will utilize individual and group supervision and team specific case consultations for case formulation and treatment planning.

The Kaiser Permanente South San Francisco Practicum Externship Program offers education and training in an integrated health care system. In Behavioral Medicine Services, Practicum Externs will work within a multidisciplinary team providing empirically supported treatments to a cultural and clinically diverse patient population.

Practicum Externs work in Medical Offices in primary care or in the Women’s Health Clinic where they receive referrals from physicians to assess patients for possible mental health problems. The Behavioral Medicine Team collaboratively coordinates care with physicians to provide optimal patient care. The Behavioral Medicine model allows for warm handoffs from the physicians, for patients who may be ambivalent about treatment engagement or likely to benefit from a brief intervention.

The Extern will evaluate and diagnose mental health disorders based on DSM-5 and ICD-10 criteria. Externs will develop treatment plans and learn how to articulate those plans to their patients and the interdisciplinary team. The Extern will utilize evidence-based interventions to provide a focused and brief short therapy within a feedback informed care model. The Extern will utilize both individual and group supervision for case formulation and treatment planning.