Nebraska Mental Health Centers

Psychology Residency Program (NMHC-PRP)

Thank you for your interest in Nebraska Mental Health Center’s Psychology Residency Program (NMHC-PRP). The NMHC-PRP provides residents the opportunity to assume a comfortable, yet challenging degree of responsibility for carrying out major professional psychological functions while maintaining a high level of supervisory support, professional role modeling, mentorship, guidelines for ethical practice and awareness of administrative structures.

Nebraska Mental Health Centers is a member of APPIC. Applicants can expect that the NMHC-PRP meets APPIC membership standards. APPIC Membership insures the postdoctoral applicant that the APPIC member site has met a certain level of quality and training standards, such as having due process procedures in place, and providing adequate and qualified supervision. APPIC Member sites are required to provide an organized sequence of training experiences that meet or exceeds membership criteria for APPIC.

The residency program is designed to be completed over a twenty-four month period. It is intended to prepare the resident in a great many of the facets of clinical psychology that cannot be accomplished in a 1-year residency program. The first year serves as the post-doctoral year required by most states for licensure. The second year offers increased opportunity to provide supervision and training to interns and other behavioral health professionals, participate in mental health administration, while receiving supervisory support. The program will prepare the resident in greater depth in the areas of psychological assessment, diagnosis, psychotherapy, psychotherapy supervision, consultation/liaison, clinical team management, and mental health administration. A graduate of this program will be well prepared to serve as a leader of a treatment team in number of environments.

Mission Statement

It is the goal of NMHC-PRP to provide a spirited and safe environment enabling the further development of an early career psychologist through advance training experience by emphasizing culturally sensitive comprehensive, systemic, and intensive training in the areas of assessment, intervention, consultation, education, administration, and supervision. To accomplish this goal, a philosophy of progressive development and comprehensive supervision serves as the basis to train residents to be competent, worthy practitioners able to adapt and thrive in the ever-burgeoning field of psychology.

Director of Residency Program

The NMHC clinical director, Dr. Leland Zlomke, serves as the Director of NMHC-PRP and is responsible for coordinating and directing all activities of the residency program and resources, including resident supervision, evaluation of program goals and activities, and documentation and maintenance of resident records.

In addition to Dr. Zlomke, four (4) additional licensed psychologists participate in the training committee processes, such as monitoring the progression of each resident toward training goals, determining appropriate policies and procedures, and in the recruitment and selection of future residents.

Basic Requirements

The residency programs require a 45-50 hour workweek for a total of approximately 2000+ hours each year, including 1,000 or more hours of direct service hours. All residents are expected to attend the program full-time and reach completion in 24 months for the advanced clinical program. Residents shall maintain certification and/or licensure required by the State of Nebraska to meet the requirements of their professional activities and professional or business needs of NMHC. Additional requirements are to be licensed within the first 16 months of residency. Approximately 28 hours of each week are spent in direct face-to-face service delivery. On average, four hours of supervision/training per week will be provided. The remainder of each week is spent in providing training activities, mentoring and supervising others, case conferences, didactic seminars, grand rounds, writing evaluations, and community outreach.

How to Apply

NMHC-PRP requires all applicants to have completed all doctoral degree requirements from an APA-accredited or APA-equivalent program and completion of an APA or APPIC-member residency. Qualified applicants interested in the NMHC-PRP should provide the following information to receive consideration to enter the program:

Selection is based upon quality of the application and level of fit between applicant's interest and NMHC-PRP goals and objectives. NMHC-PRP abides by all rules and regulations set forth by APPIC in regard to application for residency as well as the entire conduct of the program.

Applications are being accepted for the Residency Program that begins August/September 2015. Interested applicants should email Lee Zlomke, PhD at lzlomke@nmhc-clinics.com. Applications are reviewed as received and positions will remain open until filled by qualified applicants. Applicants interested in the Residency Program beginning August/September 2016 are encouraged to email Lee Zlomke, PhD at lzlomke@nmhc-clinics.com of their interest and complete and submit application materials via APPIC's APPA CAS application process.

Nebraska Mental Health Centers Psychology Residency Program Manual