Harry S. Truman Memorial Veteran's Hospital is a core site for the Predoctoral Internship offered by the Missouri Health Sciences Psychology Consortium. This internship provides a fast-paced environment where psychology services are co-located and integrated within primary care. Trainees in Primary Care - Mental Health Integration will gain experience with a number of co-morbid psychological and medical conditions. Psychology interns are a vital part of the primary care team and provide consultation to primary care physicians, nurse practitioners, registered nurses, care coordinators, licensed practical nurses, dieticians, and social workers.
Services provided by the program include individual functional assessments for a variety of mental health conditions presented in primary care, staff development/education, group therapy/classes, and brief interventions (2-6 sessions) with a focus on motivational enhancement, treatment adherence, stress management, and increasing healthy behaviors/decreasing risky behaviors. This training experience is recommended for individuals interested in gaining experience with integrated care and working with a variety of co-morbid health conditions. Psychology interns who successfully complete this training will be well prepared for a postdoctoral fellowship in health psychology or position as a psychologist in a primary care outpatient setting.
This program is part of the Missouri Health Sciences Psychology Consortium which has been accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of the American Psychological Association. The last self-study and site visit was completed in 2012. The psychology internship program is accredited until the next site visit in 2019.
