Family Therapy
Under the direction of Lois Slovik, M.D., family therapy training is provided in the MGH outpatient rotation. In the outpatient rotation in Year 1, residents participate in a core, 10 month Beginning Family Therapy Seminar for one hour per week. They may then elect to take a more advanced family therapy seminar. Families are referred to MGH and McLean from various sources: self-referral, courts, school systems, community and hospital. Clinic referrals include referrals from the inpatient medical, pediatric and psychiatric units and from outpatient departments. Each resident is required to treat at least one ongoing case. In addition, in Year 1, one and a half hours per week, year-long, are reserved for multidisciplinary team supervision and diagnostic evaluation. The team consists of four trainees and a faculty supervisor. Diagnostic evaluations are done every other week, with alternate weeks used for direct ongoing case supervision. Cases for diagnostic evaluation encompass a wide range of families, including those in which a child is depressed or psychotic, has a conduct disorder, attention deficit disorder, personality disorder, phobic, psychotic or eating disorder. The family is interviewed either by the supervisor or resident, using the one-way mirror. The family is videotaped and the tape is reviewed.

In the inpatient, acute residential and partial hospital rotations, family therapy is taught on both the McLean and Franciscan Hospital facilities.