Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Since our founding in 1902, Cedars-Sinai has been solely focused on providing the finest healthcare available among California hospitals. As a result, many advances in all areas of healthcare have been made and hundreds of thousands of lives have been significantly impacted.

More than 1,800 physicians in virtually all medical specialties are affiliated with the California hospital, Cedars-Sinai. They join more than 8,000 employees, 2,000 volunteers and 15,000 fundraising support group members to form a unique partnership in delivering world-class medicine.
Art Therapy Internship

Description

The Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health offers a challenging post-Masters training internship in Clinical Art Therapy. Since the internship's inception some 30 years ago, the department has been a leader in integrating clinical art therapy into a diverse and intensive training program. We encourage our interns to participate in training and treatment of clients in individual, group and family therapy modalities. Interns benefit from training opportunities in our Outpatient Clinic.

Given the opportunities for clinician training at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, it is not surprising that the department has maintained one of the finest post-masters training programs on the West Coast. The training program employs a well-rounded approach that integrates psychodynamic, developmental and family systems theories. We offer in-depth training in evaluations/assessments, diagnosis and a broad range of psychopathology. The multidisciplinary character of the clinic affords the trainee opportunities to work with professionals from several disciplines including psychiatry, psychology, social work, educational psychology and pharmacy.

The Art Therapy Internship is for one year - either part time (20 hours per week) or full time (40 hours per week) with the option of a second year, mutually agreed by staff and intern. A stipend of $200 per month is offered for the 20 hour per week position and $400 per month for the full time position. All internship hours can be applied toward the marriage and family therapist (MFT) license and toward the registered art therapy (ATR) awarded by the American Art Therapy Association.

* Seminars in dynamic individual, family and group theory and practice
* Seminars on child development and psychopathology
* Special seminars on dreams, termination, psychopharmacology and art therapy