Assessment and Treatment Skills

Developing competence in assessment and psychotherapy represents the core goal for the internship program at Montefiore Medical Center. During training, interns receive intensive supervision to acquire a wide range of assessment and treatment skills, in a number of different clinical settings, using a variety of treatment modalities.

Assessment Skills

• Psychopathological Diagnosis
• Personality Assessment 
• Neuropsychological Assessment 
• Suicide/Violence Risk Assessment
• Educational/Learning Disability Testing
• Child Abuse Reporting

Treatment Skills

• Cognitive Behavior Therapy
• Dialectical Behavior Therapy 
• Psychodynamic Psychotherapy 
• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
• Crisis Intervention 
• Motivational Interviewing
• Family Systems
• Cognitive Remediation

Modalities

• Individual
• Family/Couples
• Group
• Multi-family Group
• Consultation/Liaison
• Parent Training

	Program graduates at lunch with Grand Rounds speaker Martin Franklin, PhD., Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and Director of the Child and Adolescent OCD, Tic, Trich & Anxiety Group (COTTAGe).

Evidence-Based Protocols and Principles

Our faculty members represent all of the major schools of psychological thought and are united in their belief in teaching theory and principles, as well as specific interventions. For example, while many of our faculty members have been involved in the development and promulgation of evidence-based treatment protocols, others are strong proponents of adapting these protocols to more complex and challenging populations (i.e., effectiveness), use of evidence-based principles where no protocol exists, and either the integration of various theories of psychotherapy or the integration of various techniques into a core theory of psychotherapy.

In keeping with our pluralistic approach, we also offer training and supervision in psychodynamic and other therapies, despite their having been critiqued for being underresearched as, in keeping with Fonagy (2006), “the absence of evidence for efficacy is not evidence of ineffectiveness.”

The following is a list of the evidence-based protocols that are offered as part of the internship training: 

• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy-Enhanced Behavior Therapy for Trichotillomania (Woods and Twohig, 2008)
• Behavioral Activation for Depression (Martell et al., 2001; Jacobson et al., 2001)
• Cognitive Behavioral Coping Skills Therapy for Substance Use Disorders (Kadden et al., 1995)
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Child and Adolescent Anxiety Disorders (Kendall, 1994; Kendall et al., 1992)
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Child and Adolescent Depression (Clarke et al., 2001)
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Child and Adolescent Trauma (Cohen et al., 2002; Deblinger & Heflin, 1996; Deblinger et al., 1996)
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Classroom Management (Anhalt et al., 1998; Bahl et al., 2000)
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Eating Disorders (Agras & Apple, 1997; Fairburn, 1985; Fairburn et al., 1993)
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Generalized Anxiety Disorder (Brown & Barlow, 2001; Brown et al., 1994)
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Hypochondriasis (Warwick & Salkovskis, 2001)
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (Morin et al., 2006; Lichstein & Morin, 2000)
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Panic Disorder (Barlow & Cerny, 1988; Barlow & Craske, 1994; Craske & Barlow, 2001)
• Cognitive Processing Therapy for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (Monson et al., 2006; Chard, 2005; Resick et al., 2002)
• Cognitive Therapy for Major Depressive Disorder (Beck et al., 1979)
• Cognitive Therapy for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (McGinn & Sanderson, 1999; Salkovskis & Kirk, 1997)
• Cognitive Therapy for Panic Disorder (Clark, 1989)
• Cognitive Therapy for Social Anxiety Disorder (Clark & Wells, 1995; Scholing et al., 1996)
• Comprehensive Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Social Anxiety Disorder (Turk et al., 2001)
• Coping with Depression Course for Adolescent Depression (Clarke et al., 1990)
• Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder (Linehan et al., 1991; Linehan, 1993a; 1993b)
• Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Suicidal, Self-Injurious Adolescents (Miller et al, 1997; 2004; in press; Rathus & Miller, 2002)
• Exposure and Response Prevention for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (Foa & Franklin, 2001; Franklin et al., 2002; Kozak & Foa, 1997; Riggs & Foa, 1993)
• Exposure Therapy for Specific Phobias (Bruce & Sanderson, 1998; Craske et al., 1997)
• Group Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression (Lewinsohn, 1974; Lewinsohn et al., 1984)
• Group Skills Training for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (Resnick & Calhoun, 2001)
• Guided Self-Help for Eating Disorders (Wilson & Pike, 2001)
• Habit Reversal Training for Trichotillomania (Stanley & Mouton, 1996)
• Harm Reduction Therapy for Substance Use Disorders (Tatarsky, 2002)
• Incredible Years Child and Parent Groups for Disruptive Behavior Disorders (Webster-Stratton, 1992; 2001; Patterson & Forgatch, 2005)
• Individual and Group CBT for Child/Adolescent Anger, Aggression, and Externalizing Disorders (Feindler, 1990; Ecton & Feindler, 1990; Feindler & Baker, 2004)
• Interpersonal Therapy for Major Depressive Disorder (Weissman et al., 2000)
• Motivational Enhancement Therapy for Substance Use Disorders (Miller et al., 1994)
• Neuropsychological Educational Approach to Remediation for Psychiatric Patients (Medalia et al. 1998; 2000a; 2000b; 2001; 2002a; 2002b)
• Problem Solving Skills Training for Children and Adolescents (Azrin et al., 2001; Shure, 2001)
• Problem Solving Therapy for Major Depressive Disorder (D’Zurilla et al., 2007; Nezu et al., 1989)
• Prolonged Exposure for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (Foa et al., 2004; Foa & Rothbaum, 1998; Padesky et al., 2002)
• Short-Term Psychodynamic Therapy for Major Depressive Disorder (Gabbard & Bennett, 2006)
• Relapse Prevention for Addictive Disorders (Marlatt & Gordon, 1985)
• Transference-Focused Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder (Doering et al., 2010; Clarkin et al, 2007)
• Twelve Step Facilitation (Nowinski et al., 1995)