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Elective experiences provide interns with year-long exposure to specialty services offered at NYU-Bellevue. At the beginning of the year, in consultation with the internship director, interns may choose to participate in one of these two elective options. Should they do so, they will be involved in the clinical and didactic elements of these electives during some portion of the afternoon and evening hours throughout the year. Interns participating in electives will also count patients from the elective program as part of their outpatient caseloads.
Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture (PSOT)
The Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture, which is part of the Division of Primary Care Medicine, has been providing multidisciplinary care to torture survivors and their families since 1995. This program, the first comprehensive one of its kind in the New York City area, provides integrated treatment addressing the medical, physical, rehabilitative and mental health needs of individuals who have survived torture and other human rights abuses. Services offered by the program include comprehensive medical care, mental health treatment, physical and occupational therapy, gynecological care and social services. In addition, the PSOT functions as a training and resource center for other New York City organizations assisting refugee and immigrant populations, as well as health professionals, lawyers, and government organizations such as the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
Psychology interns are invited to become part of this program by offering psychological counseling or psychotherapy, and by participating in advocacy activities for clients who are applying for political asylum. Opportunities to participate in research on effective treatment and rehabilitative models for survivors of torture may also be available to interested interns.
Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP)
ISTDP is an individual psychotherapeutic treatment suitable for a variety of psychiatric disorders, which, while based on psychoanalytic theory, employs techniques that differ substantially from psychoanalysis or psychoanalytic psychotherapy. The ISTDP therapist actively employs an array of interventions intended to achieve a rapid rise in the therapeutic alliance and immobilize patient defenses in order to gain access to previously unconscious pathogenic affects and impulses. Interns participating in this elective will receive didactic instruction, view presentations of videotaped clinical material and receive supervision of their videotaped sessions treated in the technique of ISTDP as developed by Habib Davanloo, among others.
Participants in this program meet weekly as a group for two-and-one-half hours, the first hour of which is devoted to discussion of technical and theoretical readings. The remainder of the meeting is devoted to supervision of interns' and residents' videotaped cases. Trainees carry a caseload of one to two patients assigned from Bellevue's Adult Mental Hygiene Clinic. The interns’ experience also includes presentations by various senior clinicians who lecture, supervise, and conduct live patient interviews in observation rooms equipped with one-way mirrors.
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