Training Sites
The training program utilizes clinical facilities of the Department of Psychiatry--the Connecticut Mental Health Center (CMHC), Yale-New Haven Hospital (YNHH), and the Yale Stress Center.
CMHC offers child and adult individual, family, and group psychotherapy, as well as a wide range of indirect, psychoeducational, preventive, and community-oriented services, and incorporates a Neuropsychological and Psychological Assessment Service. The Center participates actively with community agencies and organizations in the development of comprehensive mental health services and new treatment models.
YNHH is a 900 bed general hospital that encompasses the Yale-New Haven Psychiatric Hospital (YNHPH) a 74 bed, acute care, psychiatric facility that consists of four main inpatient programs and a range of intensive outpatient/day hospital programs. Psychology training is devoted primarily to the assessment and treatment of adolescents and adults who suffer from a variety of problems including mood disorders, PTSD, substance abuse and dependence, psychosis, disruptive behavior disorders, and severe personality disorders. Psychology training is provided within YNHPH’s inpatient and intensive outpatient programs, as well as within several key medical specialty services of YNHH.
The Yale Stress Center is a clinical and research facility, offering a range of interdisciplinary treatment interventions that address chronic stress and stress related maladaptive behaviors affecting health outcomes. Services offered included comprehensive stress evaluations, individual therapy, group therapy, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction, exercise and yoga training, stress relaxation response training, and breath training. The Yale Stress Center’s research program takes an interdisciplinary approach in examining the mechanisms underlying human response to stress, the role of self-control, and how compulsion drives addictive behavior, with the goal of developing new prevention and treatment strategies to decrease the harmful impact of stress on health. Interns participate in interdisciplinary seminars and work with clinicians and researchers from many disciplines, such as psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience, genetics, endocrinology, epidemiology and public health, and pharmacology.
Each clinical facility and its component units maintain an inter-disciplinary approach to clinical and community service as well as to research and training. Mental health professionals and paraprofessionals work together in various service, research, and training activities. A fellow's learning is enriched by participation in interdisciplinary seminars offered within each clinical facility and by the Psychiatry Department.
