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Beyond its reputation for academic excellence, Yeshiva University provides a values-driven education that inspires students to give back to their communities and beyond. YU students proudly live their values, dedicating their time, efforts, knowledge and talents to help others. Below are some of the many programs and initiatives they engage in to make the world a better place. OurWalls YU Students Help Those Around the Corner and Around theWorld
Presurgery Interventions In consort with several medical departments at the Montefiore Medical Center (including ENT, surgery and anesthesiology), Ferkauf’s Health Psychology students have been conducting motivational interviews in an eort to decrease presurgical anxiety and cancellations. This initiative is in its second year. Mental Health Counseling (MHC) Program Students in Ferkauf’s 20-year- old Mental Health Counseling Master’s Program are seeing patients at the Parnes Clinic. They have joined the school’s Marriage and Family Therapy (MFT) Program as its newest cohort of student therapists. Ferkauf/Parnes Predoctoral Internship Parnes, which has full membership in the Association of Psychology Postdoctoral and Internship Centers (APPIC), oers the only predoctoral internship based at a training
The Max and Celia Parnes Family Psychological and Psychoeducational Services Clinic: Bringing Ferkauf’s Expertise to the Local Community
The Parnes Clinic’s mission is to oer compassionate and aordable psychological care to a broad-based population. It provides a wide range of supervised state-of-the-art therapies and is especially important to those who cannot otherwise aord or access these services within the community. Recently introduced programs and initiatives include: Lemle Clinic for Non-Verbal Learning Disorder The first clinic on the East Coast treating people with non-verbal learning disorder, it provides treatment and assessment. Its ocial opening was in September 2024.
For more than 45 years, the Max and Celia Parnes Family Psychological and Psycho- educational Services Clinic has served as the teaching and training center of YU’s Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology. At the university’s Jack and Pearl Resnick Campus in the Northeast Bronx, the clinic, under the leadership of Dr. William Salton, oers low-cost, confidential, state-of- the-art mental health services for children, adolescents, adults, couples and families living in the Bronx and the greater New York City communities.
clinic, providing a unique opportunity for psychology graduate students. Interns treat eight to 10 patients at Parnes, and in addition, train YU’s Katz School of Science and Health’s Physician Assistant students to do mental-health evaluations as part of their practicum training in psychiatry. Research on Immigrant Patients In April 2024, the Parnes Clinic received an interdisci- plinary research grant, along with YU’s Wurzweiler School of Social Work, to perform qualitative research on the immigrant patients at Parnes.
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