Postdoctoral

Types of trainees

• Doctoral internship
• Postdoctoral

Approximate percentage of group training of staff

• Staff has graduate training in group therapy: 70%
• Staff has earned CE credits/courses in group therapy: 40%
• Staff has taken AGPA Group Principles course: 10%

Approximate percentage of staff that have run at least one psychotherapy group each year

• Doctoral internship: 90%
• Postdoctoral: 90%
• Licensed staff: 90%

About the program’s groups and training

• Approximate number of groups facilitated on site each week: 20-30
• Levels of care offered to clients: Inpatient or residential, partial/intensive outpatient (IOP), outpatient: brief, outpatient: long-term
• Groups available for trainees to lead/co-lead: Psychotherapy/process; mindfulness/meditation/relaxation; theme/topic-specific; psychoeducational; diversity-related (sexual orientation, gender, race or ethnicity based, etc.)
• Hours of group leadership acquired during training: 120
• Average length of groups: Semester, quarter
• Theoretical orientations: Interpersonal process, cognitive behavioral, re-decision/solution-oriented
• Training formats: Experiential seminars, group supervision of group therapy, serving as a process observer
• Can a trainee lead a group independently (with supervision)? No
• Trainees co-lead groups with: Senior staff, another trainee
• Supervision types: Direct observation of supervising clinician (e.g., trainee leading with senior staff); feedback from a process observer
• Additional information: The patient population is composed mainly of Puerto Rican veterans of the US Armed Forced, proving great opportunities to learn about multiple, intersecting identities and cultures.