The Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center doctoral internship program is an APA-Accredited Doctoral Internship in Clinical Psychology. As such, our program is a year-long, rigorous training program for three psychology interns in an adolescent-focused interdisciplinary setting. All internship positions are filled through the APPIC matching program.
The Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center (MSAHC) is the home of the Division of Adolescent Medicine of the Department of Pediatrics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and is part of the Mount Sinai Hospital. Although part of a larger health system and medical school, the MSAHC is a freestanding outpatient facility, which provides confidential, comprehensive and integrated health care to young people ages 10-26. All of the services at the MSAHC are confidential and are provided regardless of ability to pay or insurance status. The multidisciplinary staff at the MSAHC also engages in applied research activities, presents widely in the community, and participates in numerous advocacy efforts. . The MSAHC has a long history of breaking down economic and social barriers to care for underserved populations, and this aspect of the MSAHC’s mission informs the vision of the psychology training program.
An overarching goal of the MSAHC and the internship program is the provision of high-quality and integrated services to young people who are typically underserved, or who have been impacted by societal neglect. The MSAHC internship program training aims are as follows: 1) To train interns to provide developmentally appropriate, evidence-informed interventions in a flexible and culturally competent manner. 2) To train interns to administer developmentally and culturally appropriate comprehensive psychological assessment batteries, including the development of feasible and applicable recommendations. 3) To prepare interns for careers focused on providing services to young people who are typically underserved or who have been impacted by societal neglect. 4) To provide the training and skills necessary to work in integrated and interdisciplinary settings.
Throughout the training year, interns provide individual, family, and group therapy to a diverse range of youth ages 10-26. Interns also conduct comprehensive psychological assessment batteries. Finally, interns have the option of choosing between a range of elective intervention experiences, including the Teen Parent Program, the Dialectical Behavior Therapy Elective, the Behavioral Health-Primary Care Integration Elective and the Integrated Transgender Healthcare Service. Interns’ provision of these direct clinical services is strongly supported by a strong didactic curriculum and intensive supervision.
Our most up-to-date Internship Program Disclosures, Admission, Support, and Initial Placement Data can be found here.
Questions related to the program’s accreditation status should be directed to:
Office of Program Consultation and Accreditation
American Psychological Association
750 1st Street, NE
Washington, DC 20002
Phone: 202-336-5979
E-mail: apaaccred@apa.org