YOU MAY ONLY APPLY TO ONE TRACK WITHIN HARBOR/UCLA
HARBOR-UCLA MEDICAL CENTER
ADULT COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY
Department of Psychiatry, Psychology Division
1000 W. Carson St., Box 488
Torrance, CA 90509
Phone: (424) 254-8855
# of openings: 1-4
(4 may apply)
LEVEL:
PRACTICUM
CONTACT: Lynn McFarr, PhD (harborcbt@gmail.com)
NATURE OF AGENCY / POPULATION SERVED
Externs rotate between both inpatient and outpatient settings including the Cognitive
Behavioral Therapy Clinic in Adult Outpatient Psychiatry Clinic, and the Acute Inpatient
Unit (8 West). Externs provide cognitive behavioral therapies to adult in both individual
and group formats. All settings are interdisciplinary and patients are seen for
empirically supported treatments.
DIRECT AND INDIRECT SERVICES
The externships aims to familiarize the extern with four evidence based treatments,
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Cognitive
Behavioral Analysis System of Psychotherapy (CBASP) and Acceptance and
Commitment Therapy (ACT). The externship is divided into two six-month rotations.
 The inpatient rotation provides the extern with intensive CBT training with the
severely and persistently mentally ill. Externs lead inpatient and outpatient
groups primarily using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and CBT for
patients with psychoses. Externs also typically carry 2 individual CBT patients, 2
DBT patient and 2 CBASP patients in the outpatient clinic while they are on the 8
West Inpatient rotations.
 The second six-month rotation is in the CBT Clinic in the Adult Outpatient Clinic.
Externs typically carry 2 individual CBT patients, 2 DBT patients, and 2 CBASP
patients. Externs also lead 2-3 outpatient CBT-DBT groups including CBASP for
chronic depression, DBT skills training group, ACT for chronic pain, CBT groups
for insomnia, behavioral activation and anxiety disorders.
For both rotations, externs will have the opportunity serve on committees for multiple
local and international CBT organizations.
Additionally, externs develop a group research project to complete for the year. For the
past several years, the projects have been reported at national and international
conferences. Several are in preparation for publication.
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SUPERVISION AND TRAINING
Primary supervision is provided by licensed clinical psychologists or postdoctoral
fellows. Required courses include the CBT course, the DBT team consultation and the
CBT case conference. The extern will be provided several required trainings at the
beginning of the year including: a three day required training in DBT, a one day training
in CBASP, and a one day training in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.
Opportunities for other seminars and courses are available.
THEORETICAL ORIENTATION
CBT and DBT
LENGTH OF TRAINING
Training begins the first week of September and ends the last week in August.
REQUIRED DAYS
Externs are required to be on site a minimum of 16 hours a week. Attendance is
required at the Advances in Cognitive Therapy (Mondays 10:30-12:00), the DBT Group
Skills Supervision (Mondays 12:45-1:30), the DBT Case Consultation Team meeting
(Mondays 1:30-3:00), and the CBT Case Conference (Wednesdays 10:30-12:00). For
individual DBT patients, the extern must make themselves available (within their limits)
for supervision between session
phone coaching for their patients.
VACATION
Two weeks of vacation are offered.
STIPEND
There is no stipend.
DISABILITY ACCESS
This agency is wheelchair accessible, but there is no guarantee of accessibility when
practicum students are in the field.
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APPLICATION INFORMATION
After receiving approval from the Division of Professional Field Training to apply, please
mail the following to Dr. Saberi:
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Your CV
Your letter of interest (specific to interest in CBT)
2 letters of recommendation
Unofficial transcripts
YOU MAY ONLY APPLY TO ONE HARBOR-UCLA PRACTICUM SITE!
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Students applying to this position may have had previous psychotherapy experience
providing direct services to adults. Completion of a course in CBT is preferable, but not
required. Students must have a distinct interest in Cognitive Behavioral Therapies.
Please visit the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center Psychology Division’s website at:
http://psychology.labiomed.org/index.htm Note that this practicum is called an
“externship” at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center.
REVISED 10-15