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Site Number 2008
APA accreditation – no
APPIC member – yes
The JFS Collaborative of Richmond, VA is a Greater Richmond Consortium of three member agencies. We offer three full-time slots for pre-doctoral interns from counseling and/or clinical psychology programs in the United States and Canada.
The JFS Collaborative provides a comprehensive training program that follows the standards set by APPIC. This includes at least 2 hours per week of individual supervision by licensed clinical psychologists, a comprehensive didactics program, multiple opportunities for training and collaboration with fellow students, and a myriad of clinical experiences. In addition, all three membership agencies place a strong emphasis on interdisciplinary team work.
Member Agencies
(1) JFS of Richmond is currently in its third year of pre-doctoral training. JFS is a non-profit social service agency that has provided a wide variety of services to the greater Richmond community since 1849. In addition to a very active and diverse counseling department, JFS provides home health care, telephone reassurance, bill paying and guardianship services, a Wee-care program for new mothers, an adoption program, and Independence for seniors programming.
JFS has a highly experienced multi-disciplinary counseling department that includes 2 licensed psychologists, a psychiatric consultant, social workers, and a resident in psychology. JFS serves a wide variety of clients in individual, group, family, and couple’s therapy. In addition, the counseling program is known for its involvement in a wide range of projects, services, and consultation, including school consultation and planning and community outreach. JFS has a reputation for providing excellent training in both intensive psychotherapy and therapy as a creative and dynamic process. Interns will be provided with a wide range of experiences including opportunities to participate in family therapy with experienced co-therapists, short-term and long-term treatment of outpatients, child and adolescent therapy, psycho-diagnostic assessment, dream analysis, sand-tray therapy, school consultation and counseling, and outreach. Interns emerge from our training program with a strong understanding of the client as a whole person. In addition, interns learn the value of team work and work within a community. They learn skills in community outreach, preventive mental health, and marketing of psychological services, in addition to training in dynamic process, and strong family therapy experiences.
For additional information about the agency, please access our website at www.jfsrichmond.org
(2) Piedmont Geriatric Hospital is a 128-bed inpatient geropsychiatric hospital, operated by the Virginia Department of Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Substance Abuse Services (DMHMRSAS). It is the only Virginia state facility that exclusively treats elderly persons (65+ years of age) who are in need of inpatient treatment for mental illness; meet the requirements for voluntary or involuntary admission as determined by their mental health center (Community Services Board, or CSB) and do not have a medical condition that requires priority treatment in an acute care hospital. Piedmont’s clientele present with a wide array of psychiatric and behavioral disturbances, including severe and persistent mental illness, dementia syndromes, adjustment and other emotional disorders, and personality disorders. The hospital operates with an interdisciplinary model of care, and treatment teams include psychologists, nurses, social workers, and rehabilitation services professionals (e.g., music, activity, recreational, and occupational therapists). The Piedmont Psychology Department has four licensed doctoral-level psychologists on staff; doctoral-level practicum students are also on site and provide interns the opportunity to gain experience as clinical supervisors.
Piedmont is a progressively-minded and highly dynamic organization that places a high priority on student training and professional development. Although the PGH population is somewhat specialized, many students with interests outside of geriatric psychology have gained knowledge and skills that are relevant and readily applicable to many other patient populations. PGH also operates a teaching arm of the hospital called Piedmont Geriatric Institute (PGI), which provides both geriatric-specific and general mental health training to community health care professionals, caregivers, and mental health consumers. Interns have the opportunity to create and present workshops through PGH. More information about PGH can be found at www.pgh.dmhmrsas.virginia.gov.
(3) Cumberland Hospital for Children and Adolescents, built in 1983, is a 94-bed hospital in New Kent, Virginia, which provides treatment for young persons with complex medical, behavioral, and social profiles who have failed to get better repeatedly in other more traditional settings. By offering integrated medical, rehabilitative, behavioral, and educational services, Cumberland is able to stabilize and treat medical problems, help the family cope with their child’s illness and injury, address severe behavior management problems, and reduce the likelihood of repeated hospitalizations. Over the last 25 years, Cumberland built its reputation on treatment programs for brain injury, chronic illness, and neurobehavioral rehabilitation. For information about our facility please access our website at www.cumberlandhospital.com.
Cumberland’s dynamic multi-disciplinary psychology department is comprised of 4 licensed clinical psychologists, a psychology technician, and several licensed clinical social workers and licensed professional counselors for a total of 15 positions. Therapists have an individual caseload of patients for whom they facilitate individual and family therapy. Because of the broad spectrum of diagnoses and psychological issues represented by our patients, therapists are constantly challenged to find creative ways of engaging patients who have often been in several other placements prior to coming to Cumberland. Therapists also facilitate same sex adolescent process and chronic illness groups for patients in the chronic illness program. In addition, the psychologists complete social/emotional psychological evaluations with all of the patients in the chronic illness program. Educational evaluations are completed as needed. Therapists collaborate with the members of their patients’ multi-disciplinary treatment teams comprised of the physician, physical, occupational, and speech therapists as applicable, dieticians, teachers, nurses, behavior specialists and behavior counselors.
Coordinator of Psychology Internship Training Robin B. Zeiger, Ph.D., received her Ph.D. in 1985 from the University of Illinois at Chicago and has worked at JFS of Richmond since 1991. Dr. Zeiger has a wide variety of clinical and training experiences with outpatient, inpatient, and residential treatment. Her interests include Jungian psychotherapy, the interface of spirituality and psychology, women’s issues, sand-tray work, dream analysis, and family work. She has a strong background in Object Relations Theory and incorporates an interpersonal approach to her clinical work. Dr. Zeiger has a love of supervision and training.
Additional Psychologists Include:
Andrew Heck, Psy.D., ABPP, Director of Psychology, Piedmont Geriatric Hospital, PGH site supervisor for JFS Collaborative. Dr. Heck received his undergraduate degree at Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana, and his graduate degree from the University of Indianapolis. He has been awarded diplomate status in Clinical Psychology from the American Board of Professional Psychology and serves as a Fellow in the American Academy of Clinical Psychology. Dr. Heck works primarily with older adults, and holds clinical faculty appointments in the Psychiatry, Psychology, and Gerontology departments at Virginia Commonwealth University. His areas of clinical interest include decision-making capacity evaluations, neurocognitive screening, differential diagnosis of dementia and related disorders, depression in the elderly and behavioral treatment.
Deborah Hill-Barlow, Ph.D., Director of Psychology, Cumberland Hospital; CH site supervisor for JFS Collaborative. Dr. Hill-Barlow received her Ph.D. in 1997 from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. She has worked at Cumberland Hospital since 1999 and has experience in working with children, adolescents, adults and families in both outpatient and inpatient settings. She thoroughly enjoys the collaboration involved in supervision and training. Various clinical interests include working with patients with significant trauma histories, eating disorders, and other significant emotional issues that impact an adolescent’s ability to cope effectively with a chronic illness.
Cumberland
Jennifer Rice, Psy.D. –Licensed Clinical Psychologist
Michael E. Hayes, Ph.D. – Licensed Clinical Psychologist
Tammy W. Redman, Psy.D. – Licensed Clinical Psychologist
JFS Psychology Staff
Rebecca Kiefer, Ph.D. – Resident in Psychology
Jordan Kilgour, Ph.D. – Licensed Clinical Psychologist
Piedmont
Patricia Hooker, Ph.D. – Licensed Clinical Psychologist
Lindsey K. Slaughter, Psy.D. – Licensed Clinical Psychologist
Daphne Bethune, Ph.D. – Resident in Psychology
Stephen M. Herrick, Ph.D. – CEO & Director of Piedmont Hospital
Stipends
Students will be accepted for three separate positions.
2 students will be jointly assigned to JFS/Piedmont – Students will be expected to spend 2 days per week at JFS and 2 days per week at Piedmont. They will spend one day of training at JFS.
Stipends will be $15,000 with two weeks off (one in December and one in the Spring).
1 student will be assigned to Cumberland Hospital for 32 hours per week. The additional day will be spent in training at JFS with the other interns.
Stipend will be $18,000 with Cumberland Health Benefits
APPIC and APA
We became members of APPIC in December of 2008. We hope to pursue APA accreditation in the near future.
Dates of Training
August 31, 2009 to August 27, 2010.
.All students should expect to put in additional driving time. Cumberland is 45 minutes from JFS. Piedmont is about 65 minutes from JFS. There is no compensation for travel.
Vision Statement
The JFS Collaborative seeks to provide high-quality intensive, pre-doctoral internship training for the practice of professional psychology. Although the participating sites are diverse in their service missions and populations served, across all sites the internship strives to promote a generalist perspective on psychological evaluations, interventions, and related professional activities. Training is provided via direct clinical work with patients, regular supervisory contact, and scheduled didactic and discussion-based educational forums.
The JFS Collaborative is looking for students with a wide variety of clinical interests who are flexible, insightful about self, and eager to work in a team setting. We do not select students based on theoretical orientation. However, we encourage students to develop an openness and self-awareness through supervision and training. We support a therapist as a model who uses her/his own self as a change agent. Thus, we place an emphasis on process and interpersonal issues in the therapy interaction, while attempting to tie theory to practice. Students interested in assessment should bring a strong academic background in psychometric theory and practice, as well as exposure to a variety of assessment instruments and techniques.
Further Information
For further information please refer to our Intern Handbook
Application Procedure
Please use the two-part AAPI application downloaded from the APPIC website (http://www.appic.org/match/5_3_match_application.html [link to AAPI application text]).
To apply, please mail us the standardized AAPI application form, the Academic Program's Verification of Internship Eligibility and Readiness Form, three letters of recommendation, and a brief cover letter.
Include a paragraph describing why you are interested in our consortium, and please make sure you have reviewed our website information first.
Deadline for applications is: January 15, 2009
Students will be notified by January 20, 2009 of our interest in interviewing them. We will offer phone interviews, but prefer in-person interviews.
Mail to:
Dr. Robin B. Zeiger, Ph.D.
Coordinator of Psychology Internship Training
The JFS Collaborative
6720 Patterson Ave.
Richmond, VA 23226
You may e-mail Dr. Zeiger at rzeiger@jfsrichmond.org with questions.
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Revised December 11, 2008
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