Training Programs at Menninger Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at Baylor College of Medicine
The Menninger Clinic Postdoctoral Training Program in Clinical Psychology
The Menninger Clinic is a not-for-profit inpatient psychiatric treatment center serving adolescents and adults with a broad range of psychiatric and substance abuse problems. Specialty units include the Adolescent Treatment Program, Compass Young Adult Program, Professionals in Crisis Program and the Hope Program for severely mentally ill patients. Treatment follows an integrated biopsychosocial model in which pharmacological, psychotherapeutic and systems approaches are employed to assist patients in understanding and managing their symptoms. Much attention is given to careful and thorough diagnosis and a compassionate, client-centered approach to patient care.
General Clinical Track
The core training experience on this track centers on the fellow’s work as Primary Clinician on one or more hospital programs, currently including Hope, Compass Young Adult Program and Professionals in Crisis. The Hope unit serves a population of chronically/severely disturbed or addicted adults. Compass is a young adult program with patients ages 18-30, most often with dual diagnosis disorders. The Professionals in Crisis Program is oriented toward professional people, often with combinations of impairing psychiatric and addiction problems.
Working on an interdisciplinary treatment team, the fellow integrates diagnostic formulations into treatment planning, meets with the rest of the team in weekly rounds, and provides individual evaluation and therapy services, as well as family evaluation, therapy and discharge planning for patients. In addition to these responsibilities, fellows provide psychological testing. Testing and evaluation are seen as central parts of the learning experience on this track, as fellows receive a combination of didactic seminars and intensive supervision in this area. The fellow also sees several individual therapy patients from other clinical teams and programs, usually 2-3 times per week, and co-leads group therapy.
Opportunities also exist for fellows to gain experience with focal patient populations, in psychological testing/assessment outside of the core rotation. According to the fellow’s interest, evaluation of patients with primary eating disorders, substance abuse and/or obsessive-compulsive disorders can be done.
Fellows conduct group and individual therapy both for patients on the units where they are assigned and for those on other units. Fellows carry four to eight hours per week of individual and group therapy, family therapy and/or family intervention, in addition to their primary clinician duties.
Research opportunities
Fellows are encouraged to become involved in ongoing research activities at the hospital and work on theoretical models including applications of mentalizing/ theory of mind and application to treatment of patients with Axis II pathology.
Supervision and Didactic Training
Senior staff psychologists provide approximately 5 hours of clinical supervision per week. The theoretical orientation is integrative, broadly and flexibly psychodynamic, with cognitive behavior therapy, family systems and other skills-building and empirically supported treatment approaches represented.
Didactic training includes a weekly case conference seminar, Baylor Psychiatry Department grand rounds, a psychodynamically-oriented psychological testing seminar and a course in family intervention and therapy for primary clinicians.
Qualifications
- PhD or PsyD in clinical or counseling psychology
- Completion of an APA-accredited predoctoral internship
- Experience in a psychiatric inpatient setting
- Experience administering psychological test batteries including projective measures
Information
Application/start dates
- Applications for the 2010-2011 class will be reviewed beginning February 1, 2010
- September 1, 2010, is the preferred start date, but this is negotiable
Benefits
- Salary is $34,000
- Health insurance, vacation and sick leave
To apply
Send completed, modified APPIC application form (download your copy), curriculum vitae, 3 letters from clinical supervisors and others familiar with clinical and academic work to:
Patty Daza, PhD, Director of Psychology Training
The Menninger Clinic
2801 Gessner Dr.
Houston, TX 77080
E-mail: pdaza@menninger.edu
Phone: 713-275-5421
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