Both the Multicultural Family Therapy Training Program and Brief Psychotherapy Research Program serve as integral parts of the outpatient experience. Interns meet as a group one full afternoon every week for live supervision of their family cases. As one intern works with the family, other interns and the supervisor observe behind a one-way mirror, functioning as part of a treatment team in understanding family process within the cultural context, and designing appropriate clinical interventions. The training models available to interns are a cognitive-behavioral treatment, and an integrative treatment of relational and experiential perspectives. As part of their outpatient experience, interns participate in a four month rotation on the Child and Adolescent Outpatient Service, where they conduct intake evaluations and psychological assessments.
Supervision is available from both individual and family perspectives.
As part of their work with children and adolescents, interns regularly interface with various members of the school system who come in contact with the child. A supervising psychologist on each unit provides regular supervision for all of the intern's inpatient responsibilities. Assignments are made to either a general adult service, a dual diagnosis substance abuse service or a combination geropsychiatric and general adult service. The typical caseload for interns assigned to these services is two to three patients at any one time. On all units, interns organize and coordinate the delivery of services for their assigned patients in the context of the multi disciplinary treatment team.