HEARTLAND Behavioral Health
Heartland Behavioral Health is an Adult Inpatient Psychiatric State 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, forensic patients adjudicated incompetent to stand trial- non restorable, and forensic patients adjudicated incompetent to stand trial – restorable. Some of the activities the interns participate in are: assessment of newly admitted patients, DBT group, NGRI groups, competency restoration services, SAMI-oriented services, illness management and recovery groups and psychological assessment.
Interns are active and valued members of the multidisciplinary treatment team which meets daily. Interns work in a newly refurbished state-of-the-art facility with an office 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