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The New Brunswick Outpatient office provides services to the underserved population of New Brunswick (a small city in central New Jersey) and its surrounding area. Patients with a wide variety of diagnoses seek services at the New Brunswick Outpatient program, including many with serious and persistent mental illness and very low socioeconomic status.
There are, on average, about 1000 active patients at this site, at any point in time. Approximately 44% of the population is Latino, many presenting with immigration-related issues, often trauma involved.
Psychology Resident activities include assessment and evaluation; individual, family, and group therapy; multidisciplinary team participation; and consultation with other mental health staff and paraprofessionals. In addition to general outpatient treatment, the intern at this site has the opportunity to see patients in the Intensive Outpatient Treatment Specialized Services (IOTSS) program.
Intensive Outpatient Treatment Specialized Services (IOTSS) serves individuals with frequent acute crisis episodes or those just released from partial hospitalization. Clients receive individual and group therapy before moving to traditional outpatient services after being in the program for approximately 3 months.
This track is housed primarily in the New Brunswick Outpatient office which provides services to the underserved population of New Brunswick (a small city in central New Jersey) and its surrounding area. There are, on average, about 1000 active patients at this site, at any point in time. Approximately 44% of the population is Latino, many presenting with immigration-related issues, often trauma involved.
Dr. Suzi Millar is the primary supervisor for the Child / Adolescent - School-Based Track. This program is a unique collaboration between Rutgers UBHC and the Edison School District, a large, suburban, culturally diverse school district in central New Jersey. The program is funded through the school district, which allows for the students to receive mental health services within the school at no cost to them. This allows individuals who would otherwise not seek services to receive quality mental health therapy and psychiatry.
Additional Services provided by Psychology Residents include evaluation and assessment; multidisciplinary team participation; faculty and parent training, consultation with other mental health staff; and participation in school and community advocacy groups. The primary location for the Psychology Resident is the Edison High School, although there are opportunities for assessment, group work and training at the Middle and Elementary schools depending on interest. A typical caseload would consist of 7-10 individual/family therapy cases as well as 1-2 groups. Every effort is made to provide the intern with a culturally, clinically and socioeconomically diverse caseload. The program is located approximately 5 miles from the main Rutgers campus.
Day School unit serves students that are classified by their school district and require out-of-district, therapeutically based treatment. The students range in age from 3 to 13 and are of diverse cultural backgrounds. Interns provide services such as assessment, treatment planning, individual therapy, family therapy, group therapy, and milieu therapy. The Psychology Resident functions as part of a multidisciplinary team and provides consultation to other mental health and non-mental health staff, including teachers and specialists. Due to the high need of this population, Psychology Residents rotating at Rutgers Day School will carry an individual caseload of up to 4 students, and additional clients will be acquired through group therapy provided by the intern.
Drs. Holly Lister, Kristen Riley, and Mark Versella are the primary supervisors for the Integrated Primary Care track. The four positions within this track are funded by a Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) grant. Trainees interested in working with a multidisciplinary team of healthcare providers in primary care medical settings, who also have interest in substance use disorder treatment, will be a good match for this track. The Psychology Residents on the Integrated Primary Care track will provide behavioral medicine interventions for patients in primary care settings. Consults will include care for depression, anxiety, trauma, sleep disorders, substance use, chronic health conditions such as diabetes, and lifestyle management (e.g., changes to health behaviors such as nutrition and physical exercise). Psychology Residents on this track will train in settings with other disciplines including physicians, nurses and advanced practice nurses, physician assistants, and social workers.
All Psychology Residents on this track will complete their minor rotation in Substance Use Disorder Treatment. Possible relevant minor rotation sites include Specialized Addiction Treatment Services (SATS) / ASAP Program in Middlesex County Jail, RWJMS Division of Addiction Psychiatry, and the Rutgers Health Addictions Center.
In addition to their core rotation, each Psychology Resident spends one day per week within a secondary rotation. Like the core rotations, the secondary rotations have been positioned strategically by the Training Committee. Consonant with the core rotations, the secondary rotations have sufficient variability within the treatment population to allow for adequate experiential exposure toward meeting internship goals. These placements are mostly at Rutgers UBHC. However, given our collaboration with Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, there are also opportunities to work with licensed psychologists who are Rutgers RWJMS faculty on clinically-based research projects and on service units affiliated with Rutgers RWJMS. As is the case with the major rotations, intern participation is typically limited to one Psychology Resident per minor rotation. Below is a list of currently available secondary rotations, including a description of each. Please note that availability is subject to change, in particular, in response to unforeseen COVID-19 policies.
This emergency service department provides crisis assessment and intervention, both on site and through outreach programs. It services all ages. These services are provided to an average of 325 patients per month from the surrounding urban and suburban community. Activities include crisis assessment of patients and families, interdisciplinary consultation, case disposition, and referral to varying levels of care.
Residents who choose this rotation will be involved in: (1) delivering a brief cognitive-behavioral intervention based on the Unified Protocol and (2) a research study that tests the effect of augmenting this in-person psychotherapy with a smartphone app that allows patients to practice the skills learned in therapy in the real world. There are opportunities to deliver this intervention in both adult and adolescent populations to patients presenting with suicide risk as well as a broad range of other transdiagnostic complaints.
This minor rotation is in the Department of Pediatrics, with locations at Pediatrics in Somerset, and the Child Health Institute of New Jersey (CHI) in New Brunswick. As part of a multidisciplinary team of healthcare providers, the Psychology Resident will provide brief assessments and interventions for patients who have behavioral health needs in primary care medical settings. The range of consults will include care for depression, anxiety, sleep disorders, substance use, diabetes management, and lifestyle management around nutrition and physical exercise. Dr. Holly Lister is the clinical supervisor for this rotation.
This minor track is located in a medical clinic in New Brunswick in affiliation with RWJMS. Adolescent and adult medical patients who are deemed by medical personnel to be at potential psychological risk are referred to a psychologist/Psychology Resident/student team. Services provided by the Psychology Resident include evaluation and treatment planning; crisis screening; individual, and family therapy. The Psychology Resident consults with medical staff as well as psychology graduate students. Please note that as of this writing (August 2023), this availability of this minor rotation for 2024-2025 will be determined at a later date as we determine supervisor availability.
Rutgers RWJMS Department of Psychiatry faculty member Marc Steinberg, Ph.D. is the director of the Tobacco Research and Intervention (TRI) Lab. The TRI lab focuses on tobacco use and dependence, including tobacco dependence treatment development, tobacco use in smokers with psychiatric comorbidity, the relationship between smoking and task persistence/distress tolerance, and motivational interviewing as an approach to encourage smokers to make a quit attempt. We have used human laboratory designs to study predictors of initiation of quit attempts (i.e., task persistence / distress tolerance) and clinical trials to develop treatments to encourage and facilitate quit attempts (i.e., variations of cognitive behavioral therapy, motivational interviewing, and reduction-to-quit strategies). A minor rotation in the TRI lab is dependent upon funding for a clinical trial grant application submitted to the National Cancer Institute. Dr. Steinberg will serve as a research mentor to a Psychology Resident interested in doing their required research on issues related to tobacco or cannabis use disorder regardless of grant funding.
A psychology resident could receive training in and experience with a group manualized mindfulness-based intervention for opioid use disorder, motivational interviewing, tobacco dependence treatment, and treatment for chronic physical pain as part of large NIH funded clinical trials conducted in methadone treatment and primary care clinics. The intern will have the opportunity to be part of a multidisciplinary team that includes researchers and clinicians. The opportunity for research experience is also available.
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