Psychology Internship and Residency

 Brochure, Program Procedures, & Fact Sheet

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Faculty & Agency Commitment: This set of policies and procedures represent the commitment of the agency, faculty, and psychology trainees to commit to an organized training program in pre doctoral and postdoctoral psychology. Each admitted student will read and attest to follow these policies and procedures prior to starting their training. Each faculty member and member of the CMHC, Inc. Board of Directors reviews, approves, and signs off on these procedures and attests in writing that they will follow them annually.  The Training Director is Jerry Morris, Psy.D., MBA, MS(Pharm), ABPP and faculty include Roger Wise, Psy.D., Kim DelGado, Psy.D.,  Glen Christie, Ph.D., John Toronto, MD, Amy Bradley, MSW.

General Training Programs Description: No intern may be admitted to the internship until all the requirements of their training program except dissertation are completed and they are deemed qualified for internship by their professional or graduate school. No resident may be admitted to the post doctoral training program at CMHC, Inc. until they have completed an internship which meets or exceeds APA & APPIC standards & the requirements of the MO State Committee of Psychologists and they have documented completion of their doctoral program in an appropriate area of psychology from a regionally accredited program in psychology. Satisfactory completion of the CMHC, Inc. residency program meets the requirements for licensure in Missouri and most other jurisdictions. Residents should review the requirements of the states in which they intend to practice for specific details.

The program includes 40 hours per week, 2,040 per year of supervised training experience including individual, group, and family psychotherapy, class room didactics with written examinations, two hours minimum individual supervision per week, and two to six hours per week of group supervision (depending upon the numbers of rotations running simultaneously). One Saturday per month the intern will be in a didactic classroom setting in which recent research, clinical interventions, and specialized topical areas of practice will be presented. The interns will attend a one to two hour didactic each week that is taught by the director of training. These didactics will cover professional issues, ethics, reviews of national and state practice trends, and certification and quality improvement issues related to practice as a psychologist in health care settings. On Friday interns will also attend an addictions treatment seminar for two hours that covers the research related to the epidemiology, prevention, and treatment of individuals and families with addiction, and various treatment and intervention theories and techniques. This weekly seminar is taught by the director of training and invited faculty. All interns have core rotations, which they must complete which insure competency in the treatment of major populations encountered regularly by the rural clinical psychologist. The duration of these core rotations are flexible and will be determined by the supervisor and faculty to ensure that the trainee has competence in all areas which contribute to becoming a generalist psychologist and rural community healthcare resource. Occasionally, where foundation knowledge is lacking and is deemed necessary by faculty, trainees are required to complete remedial course work at a nearby university or selected readings and in depth study with one of our faculty.

Multisite Training Facilities: The training program is a multisite psychologist owned and operated community mental health center recognized by the state of Missouri, funding sources. The main corporate and training center is in <b>Nevada Missouri</b> and outlying centers are located at Harrisonville (Kansas City suburb), Lamar Missouri.

Most interns and postdoctoral residents are posted in Nevada Missouri where the mental health center has a large multidisciplinary staff, three facilities including a professional staff library and research support, class rooms and an educational auditorium, and where the Training Director (Jerry Morris, Psy.D., MBA, MS(Pharm), ABPP) and Assistant Training Director (Kim Delgado, PsyD) office. The Nevada site has outpatient adult and child mental illness services, a certified addictions and licensed day treatment program, two in town hospital affiliations, emergency crisis and on call services, transportation services, has Medicaid, Medicare, OCHAMPUS, state funded purchase of service, and managed care contracted programs. The program features a program of multidisciplinary team treatment with a psychologist supervising all admissions, discharges, and treatment plans and training. A licensed psychologist is on the premises during all hours of center operation and on call 24 hours per day 7 days per week. This center truly models the cutting edge of the psychologist as the attending and primary care doctor. At this center the psychologist supervises the psychiatrist, nurse, professional counselor, social worker, certified substance abuse counselor, & case mangers. The facility offers a transportation program, a central admissions center, a recreational therapy facility, biofeedback and assessment labs, and a comprehensive automated management information and communication network.

The Nevada facility is set in the heart of rural Missouri 98 miles south of Kansas City, 60 miles north of Joplin, and 120 miles northwest of Springfield. The area sports farming communities, small towns, easy access to cities, three lake and recreational areas within easy driving distance, excellent hunting and fishing, regional universities within easy driving distance, and a very appealing cost of living.

The Harrisonville training facility has a licensed psychologist supervisor (Roger Wise, Psy.D.) available during all hours that services are provided, faculty that travel from Nevada to provide services and training so that there is continuity of program and approach, and interns and residents are required to travel to Nevada for Friday training each week and one Saturday per month for didactics. The Harrisonville clinic has a smaller staff than Nevada with the involvement of three licensed psychologist supervisors (Dr. Wise, Dr. Morris), nurses, social workers, certified substance abuse counselors, licensed professional counselors, psychiatrists, and case managers. This center truly models the cutting edge of the psychologist as the attending and primary care doctor. The facility offers a transportation program, a central admissions center with computerized intake and database, group therapy and educational class rooms, computer support and modem linkage with the main CMHC, Inc. management information system in Nevada, day treatment programming, family, adult, and child programs, programming for the dually diagnosed and serious and persistent mental illness, certified substance abuse programming, crisis intervention and local on call services, and linkage to an in town local hospital. About 25% of our interns and residents choose this location because of its’ close proximity to Kansas City (30 miles to the heart of the city and 20 miles to the thriving suburbs).