Mental Health Internships and
Residency Training
The Kaiser Permanente Medical Care
Program is a health maintenance organization and is the world's
largest non-government system for the delivery of health care,
serving over 8.5 million members nationwide in 32 hospitals
and 413 medical office buildings. Our Northern California
region serves over 3.3 million members at our 19 medical centers
and hospitals as well as over 80 medical office buildings.
The patient population consists of Kaiser Health Plan members
having prepaid psychiatric benefits and covering a broad ethnic,
cultural, and socioeconomic spectrum. All age groups and virtually
all psychiatric categories are represented.
Every year, Kaiser Permanente's
Mental Health Training Program enrolls over one hundred interns
and psychology residents. We are committed to training within
an Evidenced-Based Practice (EBP) model. Our trainees are
offered monthly seminars on Evidence-Based Practice at the
Northern California Regional level as well as weekly seminars
within the individual medical centers.
We are also committed to diversity
training. Through targeted seminar topics, supervision, and
therapeutic work, trainees are exposed to a patient population
representing a wide variety of ethnicities, races, socio-economic
levels, and sexual orientations.
All trainees are placed in outpatient
departments within the Departments of Psychiatry, Chemical
Dependancy, or Chronic Pain. They work within multi-disciplinary
teams that afford them opportunities to consult with, and
gain from, practitioners involved in various aspects of patient
care.
The overall administrator of the Mental Health Training Program
is John B. Arden, Ph.D. For inquiries about the overall program,
Dr. Arden can be reached at:
John B. Arden, Ph.D.
Director of Training, Northern California Region
Department of Psychiatry, 3900 Lakeville Highway, Petaluma,
CA. 94954
Phone: (707) 765-3761 E-Mail:
For more information
about specific mental health training programs, please choose
the appropriate link below.
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