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COSIG Co-Occurring Disorders Conference, Hershey PA, May 15-17, 2006
Still More for Recovering Candidates
• APCIP is six months of hard work, people work, written work,
carrying yourself like a new professional work, facing issues in
others that frightened you in yourself work.
• APCIP is learning the pain of illnesses that overwhelm not just
your new skills but those of the psychiatric, medical, social
work, nursing, psychology, rehabilitation, case management
education, care team that treats you like a member, just like all
the other clinical students they are helping to train.
• APCIP is also sharing the triumphs of people finally well
enough to go home, just as you are getting ready to finally, go
home.
APCIP’s Message to Vocational Counselors
• Addiction Psychiatry Counseling Internship
Project (APCIP) at Bronx Psychiatric Center
confronts vocational counseling professionals with a
difficult and sought after choice, the opportunity to
place the high function, high potential client in a
supportive high demand training environment that
leads not only to employment but to careers with
continuing growth and promotion potential. The
difficulty is of course in whom should you choose for
referral.
APCIP Program Statistics to Date
1000
800
600
860
400
200
0
567
405
260
Candidates
screened
Candidates
Accepted
Candidates
Graduating
Graduates
Employed in
MICA Services
What does APCIP want from
students?
• Stable recovery that has included facing
community stress and using treatment to cope,
• Adult literacy and a willingness to tolerate
learning from mistakes,
• Real interest in counseling and clinical work
that goes beyond use/ not use, and
• Tolerance for delayed gratification and
complexity, with minimal brittleness.
66%,71%, 64%
From culture shock to full integration
into
the therapeutic milieu:
Addiction psychiatry interns on a psychiatric
residency in-patient unit
Maia Mamamtrashvili, M.D.
• Highlights of psychological challenges at
the beginning
• Culture shock
• Strong identifications due to similarities in
life and health histories
• Self disclosure
• Coping skills
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