Populations Served
Adolescents, Adults, Children, Couples, Elders, Elders/Seniors, Ethnic Minorities, Gay/Lesbian/Transgender, Homeless, Infants, International, Low Income, Outpatient, Rural, Students, Teens
Provide a brief demographic and/or diagnostically descriptive statement about the population your program serves:
The internship at Mindhealth, Inc. provides direct psychological services to consumers. We do frequent psychological assessment, treatment and consultation. These services are primarily focused on injured workers who have claims of work-related stress, chronic pain from physical injury, PTSD from workplace assault or serious workplace injury, or traumatic brain injury. The clinic conducts forensic assessment of claimants with questionable validity. We provide general consultation evaluations to physiatrists, pain management physicians and surgeons. We provide a wide variety of psychological services including, chronic pain management, hypnosis, biofeedback, CBT, exposure therapy, and EMDR to a truly diverse clientele. We frequently use interpreters for non-English-speaking monolingual patients. In the past four months, we have used interpreters for Serbian, Mandarin, Cantonese, Spanish, Farsi, Tagalog, and American Sign Language. The intern will be expected to develop competency and familiarity with a wide range of clients.
POPULATION (approximate percentages of clients in each category):
| Life Cycle % |
| Children (ages 0-12): |
|
| Adolescents (ages 13-17): |
|
| Adults (ages 18-64): |
90 |
| Families: |
|
| Elders/Seniors (>65): |
10 |
| Gender % |
| Male: |
49 |
| Female: |
49 |
| Transgendered: |
2 |
| Dysfunction Level % |
| High: |
10 |
| Moderate: |
60 |
| Mild: |
30 |
| Ethnic/Cultural Identity (% = 75) |
| African-American: |
30 |
| Asian & Asian-American: |
15 |
| Euro-American: |
10 |
| Latino/Latina: |
30 |
| Native American: |
1 |
| Bi-racial: |
14 |
| Other Group Identified % |
| Gay/Lesbian: |
5 |
| Clients with disabilities: |
30 |
| Other (International subsets, etc.): |
20 |
California Psychology Internship Council