Penn Psychotherapy Training

Didactics

• Seminars on supportive, psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioral therapy, prolonged exposure treatment, exposure and response prevention, motivational interviewing, dialectical behavioral therapy
• Cases conferences each year
• On-unit seminars on inpatient psychotherapy
• Observed Continuous Cases - psychodynamic, cognitive, CBT, systems

Psychotherapy Supervision

Residents’ Psychotherapy Practice (RPP)

• Begins PGY2 year
• General, Psychodynamic, CBT, Couples/Family, Group
• 3 Supervisors in PGY3, 3 or 4 in PGY4

Research

• Center for Psychotherapy Research
• Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety

Special Programs

Psychotherapy Track - elective

Collaborating Institutions

Residents’ Psychotherapy Practice (RPP)

• First patient PGY2
• Individual psychotherapy
• Diverse caseload, including supportive, psychodynamic, CBT
• Min. 5 hours/week patients seen
• Couples/Family Therapy
• Group Therapy, including DBT Group (optional)
• Quarterly RPP Administrative Supervision

Annual Penn Psychotherapy Professorship

• 2002 Aaron Beck, MD
• 2003 Glen O. Gabbard, MD
• 2004 Edna Foa, PhD
• 2005 John Markowitz, MD
• 2006 Cory Newman, PhD
• 2007 --
• 2008 Marsha Linehan, PhD
• 2009 Michael Thase, MD
• 2010 Evan Imber-Black, PhD
• 2011 Jacques Barber, PhD

Psychotherapy Track - click here for more information

• Additional caseload
• Weekly psychotherapy literature seminar (download last year’s schedule)
• Additional supervision
• Specialization
• Mentoring
• Academic project
• Other Psychotherapy Electives:
• Couples Clinic
• CAPS (Penn Student Health Psychiatry)