DEPARTMENT RESEARCH
Interns participate in a research seminar during the training year
in which they will present work from completed or ongoing dissertation
projects. This seminar allows interns to build links between their
areas of research expertise and their clinical experiences at Cambridge
Health Alliance. Interns may also learn from one another about specialized
areas of scholarship in clinical psychology and may use the seminar
to develop presentations and publications.
It is also possible for interns to be assigned research mentors
from psychologists who are involved in the Department of Psychiatry's
research units. We encourage interns' participation in the ongoing
research projects in the Department, and the development of proposals
for original research. Currently, approximately twenty faculty members
are engaged in research projects - a few with major research grants,
and other with smaller grants or unfunded projects. Primary investigators
often develop research projects in cooperation with other members
of the Department of Psychiatry, with other schools within Harvard
University, and with other affiliated institutions.
The Department of Psychiatry values research as the foundation
for improving the quality of clinical care, and considers the conduct
of research to be essential for determining the efficacy of methods
of care, and for disseminating these methods to the larger professional
community. Psychology Trainees, Interns and Post-doctoral Fellows
are urged to join existing research activities, and are provided
with technical and creative support in the development of new research
endeavors.
Affiliation with the Austen Riggs Center
The Division of Psychology maintains an affiliation with the Austen
Riggs Center a small, non-profit open psychiatric hospital in Stockbridge,
MA specializing in the psychotherapeutic treatment of psychiatric
disorders. Additional information about Center may be found on their
website (www.austenriggs.org).
This affiliation has permitted interns in the past to participate
in two multi-day intensive learning experience on the Austen Riggs
campus with their faculty for which interns use some of their conference
time. Travel to and from Stockbridge and accommodations are provided
for interns.
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