HEARTLAND Behavioral Health

Heartland Behavioral Health is an adult inpatient state-sponsored psychiatric hospital where interns train full-time for the internship year.  Interns work with both forensic and acute care patients in group, individual and assessment modalities. Patients include voluntary and involuntary civil status patients, forensic patients adjudicated not guilty by reason of insanity (NGRI), forensic patients adjudicated incompetent to stand trial—non-restorable (IST-U), and forensic patients adjudicated incompetent to stand trial—restorable (IST-R).  Some of the activities in which the interns participate are:  assessment of newly admitted patients, group and individual therapy for long-term forensic patients, competency restoration services, DBT group, SAMI (substance abuse/mental illness) services, and psychological assessment.

Interns are active and valued members of a multidisciplinary treatment team.  Interns work in a newly refurbished state-of-the-art facility with offices outside of the treatment units, equipped with computers.  Interns have access to didactic trainings offered to the hospital staff and also have the opportunity to be involved in hospital committees such as the Behavior Therapy Committee and the IDDT (Integrated Dual Disorder Treatment, or SAMI) Team.