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- From: RQPO%UORDB4.BITNET@pucc.Princeton.EDU (Robert Pollard)
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- Subject: Mental Health Trainees Sought
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- Date: 23 Nov 92 20:21:44 GMT
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- [Note from Bill McGarry - this is from the DEAF-L mailing list]
-
- Announcing:
-
- A PROGRAM FOR DEAF TRAINEES
- at the
- UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER
- DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY
-
- The National Institute of Mental Health has funded a program to
- train mental health professionals who are deaf or hard of hearing
- at the practicum, internship and fellowship levels. This program,
- the first of its kind in the country, was established at the
- University of Rochester Medical Center by Assistant Professor of
- Psychiatry (Psychology) Robert Pollard, Ph.D.
-
- Four training positions will be available annually during the
- three year course of this grant -- one for a postdoctoral
- psychologist, one for a predoctoral psychologist, one for an
- individual with one or more years of graduate education in
- clinical social work or a related mental health field, and one for
- a BSW student. A modest stipend is paid for all post-
- baccalaureate positions. Applicants must be deaf or hard of
- hearing and fluent in American Sign Language. In accordance with
- the ethnic-compatibility intent of this NIMH grant, the emphasis
- for these deaf trainees will be on serving deaf patients but not
- exclusively so.
-
- In this program, multidisciplinary as well as discipline-specific
- didactic and experiential training is provided, where assessment,
- treatment, consultation, and research activities are interwoven.
- Each trainee will receive a rich, linguistically accessible, and
- culturally appropriate training experience that will ready them
- not only for independent practice but for advancing to leadership
- positions involving service, teaching, and/or research in the high
- need area of deafness and mental health.
-
- The trainees will receive experience in a number of outpatient and
- inpatient treatment settings that serve a broad array of deaf (and
- hearing) patients. The majority of the clinical work will take
- place in the University of Rochester Medical Center's Department
- of Psychiatry. Trainees will also be assigned rotations in three
- Rochester area mental health facilities that have special programs
- for deaf patients -- an inpatient alcohol clinic, a residential
- treatment facility for deaf children, and the psychological
- services division of the National Technical Institute for the
- Deaf.
-
- The faculty of this program includes five sign-fluent mental
- health professionals, two of whom are deaf. These individuals,
- along with the other deaf professionals employed at each of the
- four training sites, provide supervision and serve as role models
- for these trainees. Ample sign language interpreting services are
- also provided in this program, for those times when trainees
- interact with non-signing faculty, staff, and patients. An
- additional attraction of this program is its location in the
- acclaimed deafness-sophisticated environment of Rochester, New
- York, home of the largest per-capita deaf population in the world.
-
- Applications are now being accepted for all positions. The 1992-
- 1993 positions will be filled on an ongoing basis until all four
- candidates are selected. Their program will begin as soon as
- possible thereafter, hopefully by March of 1993. Applications for
- 1993-1994 positions are also being accepted at this time, although
- these candidates will not begin their program until the Fall of
- 1993. To request application materials or for further
- information, contact:
-
- Robert Pollard, Ph.D.
- Department of Psychiatry
- University of Rochester Medical Center
- 300 Crittenden Boulevard
- Rochester, NY 14642
- (716) 275-3544 v/TDD
- Bitnet: RQPO@UORDBV
-