The roles and responsibilities of the psychology resident include psychological assessment, consultation, individual therapy, group therapy and program evaluation. In addition, residents work directly with other members of the treatment team. Clinics in the institute provide services for children and adolescents, adults and the elderly. All residents divide their time during the MSI rotation between core experiences in psychotherapy, psychological assessment, intake evaluations, and participation in grant-funded clinical research. The core experience in psychotherapy includes work with adult patients seen through the Anxiety Disorders Clinic and the General Adult Clinic.
Supervision is largely from a cognitive behavioral perspective.
Clinical training is provided through a variety of formal diagnostic evaluations of children, adolescents, families, adults and the elderly. Evaluations may be comprehensive or specialized in nature. Typical clinical issues that form the foci for evaluation include mental retardation, learning disability, ADHD, thought disorder, depression, and dementia. Evaluations are tailored to answer specific referral questions and typically apply a sequential multiple hurdles approach. Residents may request the assignment of referrals to meet individual training objectives, such as an emphasis on neuropsychological assessment, the evaluation of adolescents, personality assessment, or experience with infants and preschool children.