Training Opportunities at Hamm Clinic
Our unique and comprehensive approach to training enables interns and fellows to provide direct client care under close supervision. Hamm Clinic emphasizes clinical work with a major focus on careful diagnostic evaluation and individual psychotherapy from a psychodynamic perspective. Training may also be available for supervised work with couples and group psychotherapy. Each student has the opportunity to learn and experience the multifaceted role of clinical social worker, clinical psychologist, or psychiatrist-psychotherapist in an outpatient clinic setting while maintaining a case-load and managing the related practice responsibilities throughout the academic year.
Duties include:
- Providing psychotherapy
- Providing personality testing and test interpretation
- Being responsible for on-going case management
- Attending meeting and seminars
- Preparing written records
- Coordinating therapy and medication management
- Arranging referrals to other agencies and services
- Learning the ethical and legal considerations involved in service delivery to a broad mental health population
Supervision
Hamm Clinic trainees receive intensive clinical supervision. The supervisory experience includes attention to such things as how to:
- Listen to the presenting problems during intake
- Gather a psychiatric and psychosocial history
- Assess the need for and arrange for psychological testing
- Clarify the patient's symptom profile and arrive at an accurate diagnostic assessment
- Create a treatment plan
- Work with defenses and resistance
- Understand transference/transference-counter reactions
- Work dynamically during various stages of the therapy process
- Address specific learning objectives
During supervision clinical cases will be discussed from various theoretical and therapeutic perspectives. Audio equipment and co-therapy may be used to facilitate close and helpful supervision.
Supervision is provided in a group setting as well. All students participate with staff psychotherapists in a one-hour weekly, multi-disciplinary team meeting for case consultation.
In addition to the primary learning derived from the close supervision of therapy cases, education curriculum for trainees involves a year long series of classes and seminars on various topics taught by Hamm Clinic staff. Past offerings have included courses on:
- Basic Psychodynamic Theory and Therapy
- Attachment and Empathy
- Transference
- Counter-Transference
- Personality Disorders
- Couple Therapy
- Cross-Cultural Competence
- Resistance
- Dreams
- Anxiety
- Seniors and Aging
Time Commitment and Stipend
The time commitment and stipend for internships and fellowships varies. For more information please see Clinical Social Work, Clinical Fellowship, Pre-Doctoral Psychology Internship, and/or Psychiatry Resident rotation.
Questions about the Training program should be addressed to: Pamela Henderson, PsyD., L.P., Training Director at (651) 224–0614.