Federal Medical Center, Carswell

• Serve as consultants to the medical staff concerning the emotional aspects of physical illness and the behavioral management of difficult, non-compliant patients.
• Responsible for providing non-medical treatment of physical illness and the promotion of wellness.
• Treatment approaches include patient education, self-management training, assessment, counseling, pain management, and psychotherapy.
• The Psychology Services Department has state of the art biofeedback and neurofeedback equipment.

Sex Offender Management Program

Resolve Trauma Program

Training Objectives:

Clinical Health Psychology Service

• Understand and apply scientific research to the practice of psychology generally, and the professional practice of psychology in corrections specifically.
• Demonstrate awareness of and sensitivity to cultural factors impacting clinical services with diverse individuals, groups, and communities who represent various cultural and personal backgrounds and characteristics.
• Perform professional activities that may include providing supervision, training, conducting accountability audits and program evaluation, and/or implementation and administration of psychological services and programs.

Outplacement Training

• 16 hours per week for one year
• Working with psychology staff responsible for low security inmates and/or camp inmates
• Designed to ensure interns receive intermediate to advanced level of proficiency in providing professional assessment, diagnosis, intervention, supervision, and consultation services firmly grounded in psychological science
• Complete a minimum of 8 comprehensive psychological evaluations
• Participate in formal case presentations
• Assist with peer review

Forensic Evaluation Service

General Population

• Psychologists are responsible for conducting evaluations to determine whether inmates are competent to stand trial, criminal responsibility, and dangerousness.
• Responsible for conducting previously listed evaluations, forming opinions, and serving as expert witnesses in Federal court.
• Interns may participate in all portions of this service, including conducting background investigations, interviewing, testing, report writing, and providing expert-testimony in federal courts throughout the US.
• May be involved in treatment efforts to restore competency.

Overview of Internship

• Conduct screening, assessment, and diagnosis for a wide range of disorders and problems, using a multimodal approach, specific to the needs of the situation for individuals, groups, and/or organizations.
• Plan and implement a variety of evidence-based practices, including empirically supported treatments, to address mental health needs among individuals, groups, and organizations.
• Coordinate relationships with various disciplines in the correctional environment by providing written and vernal communication, and professional assistance responsive to client or system needs and goals.
• Practice psychology within the coundaries of ethical and legal principles governing professional behavior, and demonstrate a commitment to professional growth and development generally, and within the correctional environment specifically.

• Organized around the pratitioner-scholar model
• Annual Stipend= $51,825
• Must pass Comprehensive Exams and propose dissertation to apply.
• Minimum Number of Intervention Hours= 375
• Minimum Number of Assessment Hours= 75
• Minimum Number of Years of Grad School= 3
• Only accept applicants from APA Accredited Doctoral Programs.
• Year 2012-2013: 139 Applicants --> 22 Invited for interviews --> 3 Interns (2 Ph.D., 1 Psy.D.)
• 40 hours work week (normal hours are 7:30am- 4:00pm).
• Training:
• Interns will begin with a two week Institutional Familiarization training program to introduce them to the correctional environment and to working with female offenders.
• Psychology training activities include a required year-long General Population assignment, and two elective training area assignments, each lasting for six months.

Mental Health Program

Spanish Language Services

Drug Treatment Program

Didactic Training

Research

Regular on-site and off-site seminars are likely to include: Ethics and Professional Issues, Cultural Diversity, Working with Female Offenders, Assessment and Diagnostics, Intervention and Psychotherapy, Forensic Issues, Behavioral Medicine, Psychopharmacology, and Special Populations.

Questions?

• Inters are strongly encouraged to engage in professional research activities for up to 8 hours each month.
• Completion of a scholarly project with a presentation to staff, participating in on-going research at FMC, Carswell, or completion of dissertation with a presentation to staff are all strongly supported.
• On-site research time or leave time for off-site research activity may be approved Director of Clinical Training.

Supervision

Federal Medical Center, Carswell

• Interns will participate in a minimum of 2 hours per week of face-to-face individual supervision by a licensed psychologist.
• The interns will also meet twice weekly for group supervision.
• Complete quarterly evaluations of the training and supervision they receive.
• Inters are also assigned as supervisors to practicum students.
• This process, along with didactic presentations helps interns develop knowledge and skill in theories and methods of supervision.

• The Federal Medical Center, Carswell opened in the summer of 1994, and serves as the only medical and psychiatric referral center for females in the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
• Houses over 1,600 inmates.

Carswell is comprised of four interrelated facilities...

Mission Statement

• A 450-bed Medical Referral Center
• Over 1000-bed General Correctional Unit
• A 24-bed Administrative Unit
• A 250-bed Minimum Security Prison Camp

FMC, Carswell will provide specialized medical and mental health services to female offenders, as well as appopriate correctional programs. The staff of FMC, Carswell have identified the following as significant institutional objectives:

• Provide as safe, secure, humane environment for inmates while protecting society.
• Develop and implement an efficient system of providing quality medical care and surgical evaluation and care.
• Provide a diversity of programs and activities beneficial to inmates, the institution, and the community.

Federal Medical Center, Carswell

Fort Worth, TX