The community mental health center and psychology internship training.

Abstract

Training centers are moving toward incorporating community mental health into their programs. This article describes the community component of a medical-school-based psychology internship program. The community program is based in three rural counties and affords the intern preplacement training as well as direct field training. The program involves one day a week for 12 months in one setting and a second day a week for three months in another. Field training focuses on crisis intervention and short-term treatment approaches, individual, group, and agency consultation, formal and informal community education experiences, and both program development and program evaluation.

A survey of APA-approved internship facilities.

“…Although such a directory is currently available through the Association of Psychology Internship Centers (Fox, 1974), its existence has not been widely publicized. Some additional scattered information may be obtained by reviewing the professional journals (Hoiroyd, 1973;Johnson & Bornstein, 1974;Pinkerton, Miller, & Edgerton, 1972;Rice & Gurman, 1973;Routh, 1970), but even after reading this literature the prospective intern will not know what to expect when he begins the application process.…”

Training of interns and practicum students at community mental health centers

“…Several studies have described training, staff orientation, and internships at various CMHC settings (Pinkerton, Miller, & Edgerton, 1972;Weiss, 1975;Taynor, Perry, & Frederick, 1976;Bloom & Parad, 1977a, 1977b. A recent survey of APA-approved training facilities (Matthews, Matthews, & Maxwell, 1976) reported general areas which were covered, as well as training orientations.…”

A developmental approach to postdoctoral training in community psychology.

“…This state includes updating our assessment and intervention skills with the goal of solving community as well as clinical mental health problems. The training programs described by Pinkerton, Miller, and Edgerton (1972), Cowen (1971), Cohen and Shulberg (1970), and Shulman and James (1973 are geared to this end. What lies beyond this transitional state Requests for reprints should be sent to…”