The Day Treatment rotation is led by James Norcross, M.D., Medical Director. Educational activities range includes case conferences, teaching rounds and discussions. Residents are supervised daily in a report by the medical director; participate in educational discussion with multidisciplinary team centered around daily review of patients including treatment planning and crisis intervention; participate in frequent scheduled focus meetings structured by patient needs which provide clinical material for education; examples include focused behavioral programming meeting and educational consultation. The presentations are multimodal and multidisciplinary.  Residents receive group therapy education/supervision with a co-therapist. 

Average caseloads are 5 – 7 patients.   Clinical duties for the CR I include: leading community group with both patients and their parents and staff, co-leading the play latency group and adolescent group, leading the afternoon community group, leading reporting conferences where a psychologist reviews testing results with parents in a multidisciplinary meeting, and parent teaching class on psychopharmacology.

Formal individual teaching/supervision session occur at least 2 – 3 hours per week.  Daily teaching rounds are provided in a multi-disciplinary setting with the residents and all staff present. 

Residents will receive an eclectic faculty experience in assessment, psychotherapy, behavior therapy, family therapy, and pharmacotherapy. Unique to Day Treatment is the specialized preschool program.  Preschool children with behavioral problems, depressive and anxiety symptoms are taught developmentally appropriate coping and social skills.

This first year rotation consists of 2 ½ months.