Components of the Clinical Traineeship

The traineeship incorporates an extensive orientation comprised of a coordinated series of four to six hour-long workshops over a three-week period that covers:

 

 

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 Agency overview,
 

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 Clients' psychosocial issues,
 

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 Paperwork and intakes,
 

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 The role of culture in our work,
 

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 Time-Limited Dynamic Psychotherapy,
 

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 Care management for clients with more severe mental illness,
 

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 Substance abuse treatment, and
 

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 Risk reduction

 

Starting on Tuesday, August 14th trainees are expected to be at AHP from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm every Tuesday and Thursday for orientation and trainings. Starting the week of September 3rd trainees start their 20-22 hour a week traineeship. They will be required to be at AHP on Thursdays 9:00 to 12:00 throughout the course of the traineeship.

In September, trainees are assigned therapy clients, begin conducting intakes, and meet with their individual supervisors. Most trainees will carry a case load of six to eight clients and some of them will have the opportunity to co-facilitate a group.

• Group Supervision. Trainees present cases for weekly group supervision. Each trainee is expected to use group supervision to examine their work with their clients including countertransferential reactions and get feedback on their case presentations. Trainees will present their cases using the Time Limited Dynamic Psychotherapy model. Additionally, trainees can incorporate other working models into their case presentations.

• Didactics. AHP will provide weekly didactic sessions on a variety of relevant clinical topics. The didactics are taught by a cadre of mental health professionals, including UCSF faculty psychiatrists, psychologists, LCSWs, and MFTs (many of them are members of the LGBT community). An AHP clinical staff member facilitates the monthly professional development group. This monthly meeting addresses topics such as:

 

 

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 "Therapist Use of Self Disclosure in a LGBT Mental Health Center”
 

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 "Cultural Identity and Impact of Similarities and Differences on
"the Clinical Relationship”
 

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 "Self Care and Developing Your Therapeutic Voice"
 

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 "Clinical Boundaries: Extra-therapeutic Contact, Frame Considerations
and Legal and Ethical Issues”
 

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 "Developing Personal/Professional Identities”

 

• Case Presentation. During the second half of the year, trainees present a completed case for group discussion. This case which focuses on a completed course of therapy with a client provides an opportunity for trainees to lead a group discussion about the utility of the model they used and demonstrates the strengths and limitations of the model they used. Agency staff is invited to attend these presentations.

 

Application Procedure

AHP is accepting 14 trainees. To apply, please send a cover letter, curriculum vita, and two recommendation letters to:

Michelanne Baker, Psy.D and Mary Beth Reticker, LMFT

UCSF AIDS Health Project
1930 Market Street
San Francisco, CA 94102.

In your cover letter please explain your interest and experience working with the LGBTQ Community and/or HIV-affected people..

Traineeship begins in mid-August and lasts for 11 months. Applications must be postmarked no later than February 13, 2012 for Psy.D. and Ph.D. and March 1st for MFT and SW for first consideration. Any applications received after this date will only be considered if trainee positions remain available after the first consideration applications are processed. As we typically receive many more applications than available positions, all applicants are strongly encouraged to apply before these dates. Please note, there is no AHP application.