The Psychology Internship Training Program
Of The
Karen Horney Clinic
329 East 62nd Street
New York, New York 10021
(212) 838-4333
Philosophy and Goals
The Psychology Internship
Training Program of the Karen Horney Clinic is fully accredited by the American
Psychological Association. The primary goal of the program is to further the
training and professional development of doctoral level psychologists by providing
the knowledge and skills necessary for diagnosis, assessment, and intervention
with a variety of patients in a diverse outpatient setting. The program
emphasizes the scholar-practitioner model and closely integrates courses and
seminars in theory and technique with extensive clinical experience. The
primary treatment model employed in the Karen Horney clinic and taught in the
internship-training program is psychodynamic and the intern is exposed to a
range of psychoanalytic theories, techniques, and treatment modalities with
special emphasis on their application to the diverse patient population served
by the clinic. Training is provided in individual psychotherapy,
psychodiagnostic testing and assessment and crisis intervention. Interns work with patients from different
ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds, as diverse as severely impaired very
young children, older children and adolescents in foster care and high
functioning college students and adults.
High quality supervision is
at the heart of the training program and all supervisors and faculty have
extensive clinical experience and most have post-doctoral training. Multiple
supervisory and learning experiences are provided, enabling the intern to
enhance professional skills, establish a professional identity and pursue and
develop individual interests.
Interns are highly regarded
and respected members of the clinic staff. They actively participate in case
conferences, contribute to clinical and administrative decisions and are at all
times considered professionals in training. The administration of the clinic
and psychology faculty is committed to providing a program where training and
training needs take precedence over service requirements.
Setting
The Karen Horney Clinic, a
nonprofit outpatient mental health clinic located on the Eastside of Manhattan,
serves a culturally and ethnically diverse patient population drawn from all
areas of New York City. The clinic, founded in 1955 by friends and colleagues
of the pioneering psychoanalyst Karen Horney, provides low cost psychoanalysis
and psychotherapy, and training opportunities to mental health professionals.
It is operated by a not-for profit corporation whose board of trustees appoints
personnel, reviews policy, and approves the budget. Initially, the clinic
provided long-term psychoanalysis and psychotherapy to relatively
"healthy" adults, but over the years the programs and services
provided by the clinic have expanded greatly.
The last fifteen years particularly, have seen the development of a
number of innovative specialty programs treating patients of all ages and
diagnoses. The Clinic operates an Adult Psychotherapy Program, a Child and
Adolescent Program, and a Trauma Treatment Center. These programs provide
complete diagnostic assessment and evaluation, individual and group
psychotherapy, psychopharmacology, and consultation. The Clinic is licensed by
the New York State Office of Mental Health.
The clinic is housed in a
four-story six thousand square foot building. Facilities include administrative
and clinical staff offices, numerous treatment rooms, many of which are large
enough for group and family treatment, seminar and class rooms, an extensive
library, a fully equipped therapeutic nursery, and an auditorium used for professional
meetings, presentations, and community education.
The Staff of the Karen Horney
Clinic includes Psychiatrists, Psychologists, and Social Workers. The staff is
multicultural and multilingual and members speak many languages. The Karen Horney Clinic is an equal
opportunity employer, offering employment to all regardless of age, religion,
race, ethnic background, or physical disabilities.
Overview
The Psychology Intern Program
is composed of three main components: treatment of clinic outpatients, didactic
seminars and lectures, and intensive individual and group supervision. The
interns work in different specialty programs of the clinic with adults,
adolescents and children, and adult survivors of incest and trauma. Interns
spend approximately one third of their time working with children and
adolescents, and their families. Psychological testing is done primarily with
adults using intelligence and projective techniques and interpreting results
which are psychoanalytically informed. Treatment modalities include individual
psychodynamic psychotherapy, crisis intervention, and consultation with
parents, teachers, and other agencies.
The Didactic Seminars are
intended to provide the interns with in-depth coverage of the theoretical and
technical knowledge necessary for responsible and skillful performance of their
duties. There is a 22-week seminar addressing psychodynamic theory and
technique and a series of shorter seminars on diagnosis, assessment and
psychopharmacology, ethics and professional issues, multicultural
sensitivities, eating disorders and process research using the Analytic Process
Scales.
In addition, each clinic
program has its own case conferences and seminars. The interns are invited to
attend the case conferences of the American Institute for Psychoanalysis and
the scientific meeting program sponsored by the Association for the Advancement
for Psychoanalysis in which faculty members and invited distinguished speakers
present their work.
Intensive individual and
group supervision is a key component of the internship training program as
supervisors teach clinical skills and serve as role models for the development
of professional identity. Each intern has at least one supervisor in each
specialty program and two supervisors in the adult psychotherapy program.
Interns participate in almost
all the specialty programs as a group. Additional training in an area of
special interest will be provided when possible.
Description of the Program
Adult Program in
Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
The Adult Program in
Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis provides therapeutic services for people with
a wide range of problems including: mood disorders, anxiety, psychosomatic
disorders, phobias, personality problems, sleep disturbance, obsessive
compulsive disorder, eating disorders, family problems, interpersonal
difficulties and phase of life issues. The treatments provided are geared
toward alleviating suffering from distressing psychological symptoms, helping
people change characteristic and self-defeating behaviors, assisting in
adjusting to life circumstances, as well as in-depth exploration of underlying
psychological processes from which much suffering emanates.
In this program, interns will
serve as primary therapists for seven to eight patients, requiring up to twelve
hours of direct clinical service a week. They will receive training in
evaluation and diagnosis, psychopathology, crisis intervention and
psychodynamic psychotherapy.
Child and Adolescent
Services Program
The Child and Adolescent
Program serves patients up to eighteen years of age with a variety of problems
including: school failure, behavior disturbance, depression, anxiety, and
parent-child disturbance. In this program interns will do intakes, serve as
primary therapist for at least three children or adolescents, meet bi-weekly
with parents, and consult with school and agency personnel. Interns attend a
weekly diagnostic and treatment conferences and perform psychological
evaluations using intelligence, projective, and neuropsychological tests.
Interns receive training in evaluating and diagnosing learning disabilities.
The Trauma Treatment
Center (Incest and Abuse)
This program provides
long-term psychodynamic therapy to adult female and male survivors of incest,
physical child abuse, and family violence. The long-lasting effects of
childhood sexual or physical abuse often result in depression, anxiety, shame,
guilt, eating disorders, low self-esteem, identity problems, interpersonal
problems and serious psychiatric problems. Interns will serve as primary
therapists for at least three patients in this program, and will receive
training in evaluation and diagnosis, individual psychotherapy, and
consultation with courts and community agencies.
Curriculum
The core curriculum consists
of a series of seminars and longer courses on assessment and diagnosis,
psychodynamic theory and technique of psychodynamic psychotherapy. There are
also seminars on research, professional ethics, eating disorders and
multi-cultural issues.
Courses and Seminars
1. Assessment and
Diagnosis
a. Diagnosis, Assessment and
Psychopharmacology-Reviews psychiatric diagnosis and psychopharmacology.
b. Multicultural Perspectives
on Diagnosis and Treatment-Addresses the multiple influences of race and
culture on diagnosis and treatment of mental illness
2. Psychoanalytic
Theory
a. Karen Horney’s
Psychoanalytic theory -Covers the motivational premises, basic concepts, and
dynamics of Karen Horney’s theory of personality.
b. Shame and Guilt- Covers
the affect states of shame and guilt and explores how they participate in the
evolution of maladaptive relationships with self and others and how they relate
to different diagnoses.
3. Technique of
Psychotherapy
a. Technique of Psychodynamic
Psychotherapy with Adults - A 22-week long course focusing on all aspects of
treatment including: the initial interview, the therapeutic frame and concepts
of therapeutic action, the analysis of resistance and transference, dreams, and
termination.
b. Child and Adolescent
Psychotherapy- This is a 12-week course focusing on selected topics
specifically related to the treatment of children and adolescents. Some of
the specific material covered are:
understanding and using play therapy, observing and using latent content
as it appears in play and models of
working with parents.
c. Eating Disorders- This is
a 6-week course focusing on the etiological factors associated with eating
disorders, as well as, the specific psychoanalytic techniques that can be used
for treatment.
4. Process Research
Seminar and Practicum using
the Analytic Process Scales- This course utilizes the Analytic Process Scale
and the Shedler Weston Assessment of Personality Q-sort for defining, learning
and measuring key aspects of the therapeutic process and outcome.
5. Ethics
This seminar reviews ethical
standards and issues in psychology with special emphasis on implications for
the therapeutic relationship.
Lectures and Case
Conferences
1. Interns attend weekly case conferences in the
Trauma Program and the Child and Adolescent Program.
2. Interns attend and are
invited to participate in the case presentations and conferences sponsored by
the American Institute for Psychoanalysis of the Karen Horney Psychoanalytic
Center.
3. Interns attend the
scientific meetings of the Association for the Advancement for Psychoanalysis.
Evaluation
Faculty and Supervisors
provide ongoing evaluation of intern's performance throughout the year. Formal
evaluations of performance in each clinic program are given twice a year and
are closely reviewed with the interns. Evaluations are regularly discussed at
meetings of faculty and supervisors and at end of the year these evaluations
are summarized and communicated by the Director of the Internship Training
Program to the interns.
Interns also provide ongoing
evaluation of the training program to the Internship Director at regular weekly
internship meetings. Interns also formally evaluate their supervisors twice a
year and all didactic seminar instructors. These evaluations are shown to the
staff members being evaluated and are discussed with the Director of Training.
Interns also meet regularly with the Director of Training to review the program
and are asked to write an evaluation at the end of the year.
Stipends and Benefits
The internship is a full time
commitment and begins in early September and continues for a year. The stipend
is currently $17,000 annually. Benefits include 3 weeks of vacation, 3 personal
days, and 10 sick days accumulated one per month. No insurance benefits are
paid for by the clinic. There are three funded intern positions.
APPLICATION PROCEDURES
Applications for admission to
the internship-training program may be obtained by writing, or by calling the
Karen Horney Clinic at 212-838-4333. Applicants must be matriculated in an A.P.A.
approved Psychology Doctoral Program, have completed their course work and
practicum, and passed their doctoral qualifying exams by the time they begin
the program. The deadline for applications is Novemeber 15, 2008. The
internship participates in the APPIC Internship Applicants Matching Program.
This internship site agrees to abide by the APPIC policy that no person at this
training facility will solicit, accept or use any ranking-related information
from any intern applicant. Applicants must submit:
1. A completed APPIC
Application for Psychology Internship (AAPI) for the 2008-2009 year. This can
be obtained on the APPIC web site: www.appic.org.
2. A transcript from graduate
school.
3. A letter from the office
of the graduate program attesting to matriculation and eligibility for the
internship.
4. Three letters of
recommendation.
5. A stamped self-addressed
postcard to be used to inform you of receipt of your application materials.
Please address all
application materials to:
Jacqueline Simon,
Psy.D.
Director of Internship Training
Karen Horney Clinic
329 East 62nd Street
New York, New York, 10021
Henry Paul, M.D.
Executive Director, Karen
Horney Clinic
Director the Child and
Adolescent Program
Director the Adult Program of
Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
Jacqueline Simon, Psy.D.
Director, Psychology
Internship Training Program
Trauma Program Supervisor
Amy Ober, C.S.W.
Director, Trauma Treatment
Center
Elliott Adler, Ph.D.
Hilli Dagony-Clark Psy.D.
Marjory Kalb, Psy.D.
Julie Marcus, PhD
Michele Munoz, Ph.D.
Henry Paul, M.D
Monica Pierreponte LCSW
Franklin Porter, Ph.D.
Jacqueline Simon, PsyD
Ariella Soffer, Ph.D.
Marjorie Solbetz, LCSW
Ken Winarick, PhD
Wendy Wolfson, D.O.
Typical Weekly Schedule
Didactic Seminars and
Case Conferences
Core Curriculum (3 hours)
Seminars ( 2-3 hours)
Case Conference (2-4 1/2
hours)
Scientific Meetings (2 hours
a month)
Clinical Service
Adult Psychotherapy Program
Individual Psychotherapy
(8-10 sessions)
Trauma Treatment Center
Individual Psychotherapy (3-4
sessions)
Child and Adolescent Program
Individual Psychotherapy (3-4
sessions)
Parent Counseling (1-2
sessions)
Intakes (2-3 sessions every
other month)
Psychodiagnostic Testing
(Minimum of two full batteries in 12 months)
* All sessions are 45 minutes
Supervision
Adult Psychotherapy Program
Individual Supervision (2
sessions per week)
Child and Adolescent Program
Individual Supervision
Group Supervision
Psychodiagnostic testing (5-6
sessions per battery)
Trauma Treatment Center
Group Supervision (1 hour per
week).
Individual Supervision (1
session per week)