About our Division of Psychology
The CHA Division of Psychology includes approximately thirty-five core faculty and staff and draws on a large pool of psychologists affiliated with Harvard Medical School for supervision and supplementary services. The Division includes licensed full-time and part-time staff (including clinical psychologists, psychoanalysts, health psychologists, personality and developmental psychologists). We place a strong emphasis on interdisciplinary training in psychiatry, psychology, social work and nursing. Psychologists also hold central leadership positions in the Adult Ambulatory Psychiatry Service, Center for Child and Adolescent Development, Child and Adolescent Ambulatory Service, Victims of Violence Program, Behavioral Medicine Program, Program for Psychotherapy, Portuguese Mental Health Clinic, Latino Mental Health Clinic, Asian Mental Health Clinic and Adult, Child and Adolescent Inpatient Units, as well as a variety of research teams.
Clinical Psychology Training Programs
CHA offers an internship in clinical psychology accredited by the Committee of Accreditation of the American Psychological Association. This is based at its Cambridge campus and its community locations. The Division of Psychology also sponsors an extensive post-doctoral training program in clinical psychology with fellows based in core clinical services throughout our system. Additionally, doctoral students in clinical and counseling psychology are eligible to apply for advanced practicum experiences.
The Clinical Psychology Training Programs prepare doctoral candidates and postdoctoral fellows in clinical psychology to understand and treat persons suffering with a broad spectrum of emotional distress. In addition, we aim to prepare psychology students in all of our programs to be future leaders in service and training. Using a scholar-practitioner model, our curriculum emphasizes a biopsychosocial approach to the understanding of people and values the use of psychological intervention and psychotherapy. Our talented and multidisciplinary faculty engage trainees in didactics and in individual and group supervision designed to teach about sponsoring change. With close faculty-trainee interaction, we provide a solid grounding in case formulation utilizing psychodynamic and developmental theories that take into account ethnic and cultural influences. We also teach all psychology students to integrate a variety of treatment modalities while working with persons with an array of psychological problems, including persons diagnosed with major mental illness and severe personality disorders.
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