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About the Program
Pennsylvania Hospital, a part of the University of Pennsylvania Health System, is the home of the nation’s first hospital and the nation’s first psychiatric unit. Founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1751, the hospital is located in the historic Society Hill section of Philadelphia. Behavioral health services include acute inpatient care, community mental health, consultation/liaison psychiatry, and a training clinic staffed by psychology interns.
The psychology internship is located on Manning Street just
one block from the general medical hospital. In this setting,
interns have individual offices, conference space, and computer
facilities. This setting also houses the department’s training
clinic, a sliding scale outpatient program that offers both
general, acute outpatient services and long-term psychodynamically
oriented treatment.
With this as the center for clinical training,
interns then rotate through services in other locations,
including the acute inpatient unit, the community mental health
program, the general medical hospital, and the palliative care
cancer center. Other auditorium and classroom facilities are
located in the hospital and in the community mental health
center. The behavioral health library is located in the historic
Pine Building of the main hospital.
Clinical assignments are
all at the Pennsylvania Hospital campus. Seminars are divided
between Pennsylvania Hospital and the Hospital of the University
of Pennsylvania. Choose a topic below to learn more:
Program Philosophy
It is the philosophy of the training staff that the predoctoral internship should
encourage a more deeply and clearly articulated clinical and theoretical viewpoint.
This should be accomplished while simultaneously preparing interns for work in
a diversity of clinical settings and with a variety of patient populations. Toward
this goal, the internship at Pennsylvania Hospital recruits applicants who are
interested in developing a psychodynamic viewpoint. It is the view of the staff
that psychodynamic theory is adaptable to a broad range of treatment goals and
clinical settings.
On our own, and in conjunction with the Psychoanalytic Center
of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania Psychiatry
Residency Program, we offer seminars in dynamic psychology,
case conferences, continuous case conferences, and supervision
from experienced psychoanalysts and other dynamically oriented
clinicians. This core theoretical model is augmented by other
topics in diagnostics, biological psychiatry, community mental
health, and various other areas. Recognizing that our interns
must be prepared for work in a wide range of clinical settings,
our interns will have rotations in such varied settings as
the outpatient training clinic, the acute inpatient service,
the community mental health center, and the medical consultation/liaison
service. With the help of outside supervisors and clinicians
working in these settings, interns will learn to adapt psychodynamic
principles to varied patient populations, diagnostic groups,
and clinical problems.
The internship is sequentially organized, beginning with
seminars on the opening phases of psychotherapy and the basics
of diagnostics, crisis management, and inpatient psychiatry.
Interns also receive extensive orientation to the goals and
procedures of each clinical rotation. As the year proceeds,
the focus shifts to more independent work, with supervision
increasingly focused on clinical formulation and treatment
process. Interns achieve greater independence as they carry
inpatients and outpatients in both brief and long term treatment.
Clinical Rotations
All interns will be assigned to the following rotations:
- Training Clinic
Individual outpatient psychotherapy, group therapy, including both long-term
psychotherapy and brief treatment. A portion of each intern’s time
is dedicated to the Penn Behavioral Health Employee Assistance Program.
This is a consultation and brief treatment service for Health System, University,
and other corporate staff. (full year, 9 hours/week)
- Diagnostic Testing
Comprehensive psychological evaluations, neuro-psychological evaluations,
and diagnostic screenings. (full year, approximately one consult
per month)
- Acute Care Inpatient Service
Primary therapist for inpatients. (6 months, 12 hours/week)
- Bariatric Surgery Evaluation and Treatment
Provide screening and treatment for patients undergoing gastric bypass surgery.
Interns will be assigned to one of the following:
- Palliative Care Program
Individual and family supportive therapy to patients and their families who
have been diagnosed with cancer. (6 months, 4 hours/week)
- Consultation/Liaison Service
Evaluation and follow-up of medically hospitalized patients. (6
months, 6 hours/week)
Optional Second Year
Mid-way through the first year, interns may apply for an optional second
year of training. In the second year, interns specialize in psychoanalytic
psychotherapy and some other elective (e.g., Child/Family, Consultation and
Liaison, Palliative Care Center, gastric bypass service, neuropsychology,
psychotherapy research, Mill Creek School, ob-gyn service). Second Year
interns also receive appointments as Fellows of the Psychoanalytic Center of
Philadelphia.
Seminars
Pennsylvania Hospital
- Case Conference
- Continuous Case Conference
- Weekly seminar on topics in psychology
- Testing Seminar
- University of Pennsylvania Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds
- MHC in-services
- As scheduled programs offered by the Psychoanalytic Center
of Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania Department of Psychiatry (weekly
seminars with residents)
- Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
- Adolescence
- Couples/Family Treatment
- Integrated Treatment Case Conference
- Hypnosis
Accreditation
The internship is fully accredited by the American Psychological
Association, Commission on Accreditation, American Psychological
Association, Washington, D.C., 750 First St., NE Washington,
DC 20002-4242, (202-336-5979).
Salary
and Benefits
The annual salary for 2008-2009 will be approximately $22,380.
The salary for the optional second year is $25,396 or $30,222
(with completed doctorate). In addition, interns are regular
hospital employees and will receive three weeks paid vacation,
medical coverage, and other hospital benefits.
How
to Apply
For 2012-2013, all applications should be submitted using
the AAPI online system. The application should include
the following supplementary materials:
- Current Curriculum Vitae
- Completed application (APPIC Uniform Application)
- Graduate transcript
- Sample psychological test reports (minimum of two)
- Three letters of recommendation
Submit all materials through the online system by November
20, 2012.
If you have questions, please contact:
Linda Shellenberger
Psychology Internship Program Coordinator
Pennsylvania Hospital
245 South 8th Street
First floor
Philadelphia, PA 19107
E-Mail: linda.shellenberger@uphs.upenn.edu
(215) 829-7335
The program participates in the uniform match (Program #153612)
Faculty
Supervisors and seminar leaders are drawn from the psychology
and psychiatry staffs. Some of these individuals are salaried
by the hospital and employed
in hospital-sponsored clinical programs. Other faculty may be members of
the Professional Staff, but are non-salaried practitioners in the hospital
community. The faculty’s interests reflect the primarily psychodynamic
orientation of the internship program. With this model as the core, there
are supervisors and seminar leaders with interests in general psychiatry,
consultation/liaison, forensics, community mental health, brief treatment
approaches, child and system orientations.
Supervision
Interns will have a minimum of two psychotherapy supervisors (commonly, one
psychologist and one psychiatrist), testing supervisors and an on-site supervisor
in the outpatient, inpatient, CMHC or consultation/ liaison rotations. With
a large open professional staff of over 100 psychologists and psychiatrists,
there is the opportunity to request additional supervision in many areas.
For example, interns may elect to receive supervision for intensive psychotherapy
on an individual case, a child case or a couple.
Program Director:
- Michael P. Kowitt, PhD, ABPP (Director, Psychology
Internship Program and Training Clinic)
Primary interests: Adult psychoanalysis and psychotherapy; diagnostic testing;
forensic evaluation; couples therapy
Rotation Directors:
- Scott Campbell, MD (Associate Director of Inpatient Psychiatry 6 Spruce Unit; Associate Director of Psychosomatic Medicine Services)
Primary Interests: Inpatient Psychiatry, psychopharmacology, community psychiatry, teaching
- Jody F. Foster, MD, MBA (Chair of the Department
of Psychiatry; Director of Inpatient Unit)
Primary interests: Inpatient psychiatry; crisis intervention,
psychopharmacology
- Reed Goldstein, PhD (Inpatient Unit)
Primary interests: Psychodynamic psychotherapy; interpersonal therapy; neuropsychological
and psychological assessment; treatment and research in the relationship
between depression and medical illness; research in depression and personality
disorder
- Spencer Kostinsky, MD (Co-Director, Inpatient Unit)
Primary Interests: Community Mental Health, severe mental illness
- Mark Moore, PhD (Palliative Care Program)
Primary interests: Psycho-oncology and health psychology; psychodynamic psychotherapy;
outcome research and hypnosis
- Deborah Seagull, PhD (Palliative Care Program)
Primary
interests: Psycho-oncology and health psychology;
psychotherapy; women's issues
- Matthew Purcell, PsyD (Inpatient Unit)
Primary interests: Psychodynamic psychotherapy, adolescent treatment, diagnostic testing
- David Weiss, MD (Director Psychosomatic Medicine
Service, Pennsylvania Hospital; Unit Chief – 6
Spruce; Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry)
Primary interests: Geriatric and Neuropsychiatry; Neuromodulation; Psychopharmacology
Supervisors, Seminar Leaders:
Susan Adelman, PhD
Peter Badgio, PhD
Ellen Balze, PhD
Steven Berkowitz, MD
Peter B. Bloom, MD
Lawrence Blum, MD
Jay Bonovitz, MD
Robert Brody, MSW
David Burns, MD
Scott Campbell, MD
Kevin Castro-Convers, PhD
Richard Cornfield, MD
Donna Cotzen, MD
Newell Fischer, MD
Ruth Fischer, MD
Fred Fisher, MD
Sari Fogel, MD
Jody F. Foster, MD, MBA
Elio Frattaroli, MD
Ruth Garfield, MD
Vincent Gioe, PhD
Reed Goldstein, PhD
June Greenspan-Margolis, MD
Delano Heard, MD
Sally Holtz, PhD
Christie Huddleston, MD
Patti Inacker, LCSW
Marc Inver, MD
Audre Jarmas, PhD
Spencer Kostinsky, MD
Michael P. Kowitt, PhD, ABPP
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Richard Kluft, MD
Gretta Leopold, MD
Steve Levick, MD
Bruce Levin, MD
Craig Lichtman, MD
Richard Limoges, MD
Laurel Lipshutz, MD
Eva Loeb, MD
Geoffrey Margo, MD
Gerald Margolis, MD
Michael McCarthy, MD
Lewis Merklin, MD
Monisha Nayar, PhD
Naomi Rosenberg, PhD
Diana Rosenstein, PhD
Judy Saltzberg, MD
Lann Salyard, MD
Anita Schmukler, DO
Deborah Seagull, PhD
Susan Shivley, MD
Melvin Singer, MD
Julian Slowinski, PhD
Jack Solomon, MD
Lindsay Sortor, PsyD
Howard Sudak, MD
Richard Summers, MD
Robert Toborowsky, MD
Pamela Vail, PsyD
Jeanine Vivona, PhD
David Weiss, MD
Roger Weiss, MD
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