Current Training/Cohort
# of Half-Time PREDOCTORAL INTERNS in current training cohort:
# of Full-Time PREDOCTORAL INTERNS in current training cohort: 1
Number of current Predoctoral Intern Positions Filled Listed By Doctoral Program of Enrollment:
|
|
Half-Time |
Full-Time |
Program 1: |
The Chicago School-Southern California |
1 |
1 |
Program 2: |
Alliant/CSFS-LA |
0 |
1 |
Other Trainees in Current Training Program:
Postdoc, or Practicum |
Number |
psychology practicum students |
7 |
psychology postdocs |
1 |
MSW |
|
MFT |
1 |
Agency Description:
Riverside Behavioral Healthcare Center is a locked, skilled nursing/psychiatric facility serving the needs of up to 120 patients who are generally under provide or public conservatorship (deemed gravely disabled) and are a diagnosed with a pervasive thought and/or mood disorder. Patients have the opportunity to participate in a specialized treatment program provided by facility counselors. Psychology trainees (i.e., psychology interns, practicum students, and postdoctoral psychology trainees) add to the specialized treatment program and provide individual, group, special needs, and assessment services to the population, under the supervision of licensed psychologists.
***Special Considerations about Riverside Behavioral Healthcare Center (RBHC)
*National Awards Achieved*
-2000 American Healthcare Association Quality Award Winner Step 1 (National Award)
-2001 American Healthcare Association Quality Award Winner Step 2 (National Award)
-2020 American Healthcare Association Quality Award Winner Step 1 (National Award)
-Numerous other Awards of Excellence from Beverly Healthcare and Country Villa Health Services
*Commitment to Excellence and Department Deficient Free Achievements*
-2001 Deficiency Free Department of Public Health Surveys
-2018 Deficiency Free Department of Public Health Surveys
-One Deficiency Free Federal Survey
-20 Deficiency Free Department of Mental Health Surveys in the past 21 years.
-Over the past 20 years RBHC has remained under the State and Federal Deficiency Average
*Publicized Recognition*
-2001 Listed as one of the Top Nursing Centers in the United States by Nursing Provider Magazine
*Administrative Staff Experience and Achievement*
-RBHC Administrator has 33 Years of Professional Mental Health Experience (21 Years at RBHC)
-Administrator achieved Administrator of the year 2019
-Director of Nurses has 12 Years Professional Mental Health Experience (4 Years at RBHC)
-Director of Nurses is a Current Member of Cambridge Leadership Council
-Program Director has 19 Years of Professional Mental Health Experience (5 Years at RBHC)
Agency Mission:
The goal of the RBHC Psychology Training Program is to train competent, ethical, independent psychologists to provide psychological treatment and assessment services in a locked psychiatric environment. Psychology trainees will be trained to recognize situational stressors, trauma, biochemical changes, and external factors that overwhelm and minimize effectiveness of coping mechanisms that lead to the need of psychiatric hospital care. Psychology trainees will also enhance learning of accurate diagnostic abilities. Diagnostic Treatment interventions focused on increasing mental health stability helps to help stabilize patients to successfully make progress and achieve a level of functioning in the least restrictive setting possible.
Theoretical Orientation(s) of Staff:
Bio-psychosocial, Cognitive behavioral, Family Systems, Humanistic/Existential, Integrative, Jungian, Narrative, Other: Cross-cultural, Psychodynamic/Psychoanalytic, Psychosocial Rehabilitation, Transpersonal
Comments Regarding Theoretical Orientation of Staff
Primary supervisors, Dr. Navarro and Dr. Ealey, are supportive of effective individualized theoretical approaches by trainees. Both primary supervisors have utilized Cognitive Behavioral, Humanistic, Interpersonal, and Integrative Therapy Approaches within practice.
AGENCY ACCESSIBILITY AND DISABILITY ISSUES
Are you familiar with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990? |
Yes |
If not, would you like information? |
No |
Is the agency wheelchair accessible? |
Yes |
Do trainees have access to computers to do their paperwork? |
Yes |
Has there been a student/intern/trainee with a disability at the agency within the last five years? |
No |
Are there any training staff with disabilities at the agency? |
No |
Has the agency provided in-service training on disabilities in the past five years? |
Yes |
Comments on agency accessibility: