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Our Training Model

​Clinical Training and Workforce Development

Since 2006, our Integrated Health Psychology Training Program (IHPTP) has been partnering with community health organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area to provide expansive, accessible, affordable, culturally responsive integrated behavioral health services and formalized training to prepare a workforce to meet the needs of populations with the most health disparities.

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Integrated Health Psychology Training (IHPTP)

Our comprehensive multi-level centralized training program provides affordable amplified direct-access culturally responsive service delivery to complex, vulnerable and historically marginalized populations.

 

We bring person-centered care to address the health & mental health impacts from:

  • Systemic racism and health disparities

  • Poverty, homelessness and addiction

  • Adverse childhood experiences and trauma

  • Social determinants of health

  • Reentry transitions

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With more than a decade of experience, we recruit and retain high quality team members. The IHPTP training model adheres to the APA’s Profession-Wide Competency standards as well as the Core Competency Guidelines for Integrated Behavioral Health and Primary Care set forth by SAMHSA - HRSA Center for Integrated Health Solutions.

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Cultural Competency & Care Delivery

Despite growth in the application of cultural competency in health care delivery, there remains unequal treatment and care confronting minority groups as presented and explored in data and literature showing minorities groups suffering from cardiovascular diseases like hypertension, diabetes, asthma, COPD associated with psychological issues like depression and anxiety (Betancourt et al., 2016; Smith et al., 2009; Cohen, J. J., Gabriel, B. A., & Terrell, C. 2002). Likewise, in academia or training programs, little opportunities are created to purposefully foster diversity inclusion (Ginther et al., 2011; Valantine, H. A., & Collins, F. S. 2015; Vega, I. E., & Colón-Berlingeri, M. 2016) despite longstanding efforts to dialogue about current societal racial challenges, public health diversity, inclusion, and awareness about isms, inequality, and privilege. In developing a comprehensive system of integrated care, the Integrated Health Psychology Training Program (IHPTP) provides cultural competency training that aims to reduce racial and cultural health disparities, both through service delivery and training of future psychologists. IHPTP provides diversity training for students and staff that is grounded in a solid foundation of complex multicultural issues, including but not limited to race, ethnicity, culture, national origin, language, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, disability, and socio-economic status. The aim is to instill the knowledge, diversity skills, and self-reflective attitude that is critical for culturally competent clinical practice and to create and promote a welcoming environment that is safe and supportive to trainees, staff, patients particularly those from underrepresented groups. IHPTP can provide practical approaches to engage with differences and create inclusion among members of multidisciplinary teams in the primary care setting.

Benefits of Partnering with an Academic Training Program

The Wright Institute is the sponsoring institution of the Integrated Health Psychology Training Program (IHPTP). The Wright Institute’s mission is to educate students to be critical thinkers and ethical problem solvers, to address community and societal needs, and to function effectively as professionals in a diverse society.  The three aims of the program are to provide students with 1) a broad and general foundation in the science of clinical psychology, 2) the knowledge, skills and attitudes that will prepare them for the effective biopsychosocial practice of clinical psychology, and 3) knowledge of cultural and individual diversity, as well as skills and attitudes necessary for culturally informed practice as a clinician.

 

For over a decade, the Wright Institute's Integrated Health Psychology Training Program (IHPTP) has provided a much-needed and highly sought-after training experience in Primary Care and Community Health Care. IHPTP offers multi-level training programs: Practicum and Masters, Doctoral Internship and Postdoctoral Residency.

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Our Program Description and Partnership with The Wright Institute: 

Link: https://www.wi.edu/training-ihptp

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What Collaborators are Saying

"Having a trained mental health clinician in the clinic gives us a more full appreciation of the patient’s needs. The immediate availability of
Health (Psychologists) in our clinics has helped us address these issues in a collegial way, allowing us to develop treatment plans that address the psychological as well as the physical needs of our patients."

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Supporting Healthy Minds, Healthy Bodies, Healthy Communities
CONTACT
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Tel. 925 899-9038

IHPPartnerships@gmail.com

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