We Serve
Hazelden Mental Health Centers serve residents and outpatient clients of addiction services, as well as the recovering community on an outpatient basis. Clients served tend to be well educated with at least a high school education, come from a mid to upper socioeconomic background and about half are married or in stable relationships. Approximately 43% are from Minnesota with the remaining individuals and families served from across the U.S. and other countries.

The adults we serve on our Center City campus typically have a minimum of a high school education, 46% have had at least one previous experience in a residential treatment program and 73% have been treated on an outpatient basis for mental health related issues. Seventy-two percent of the patients in 2003 were diagnosed as dependent on both alcohol and other drugs.

At Hazelden Center for Youth and Families in Plymouth, Minnesota, we serve adolescents and young adults ages 14-25. In 2003, 29% of the residential patients had at least one previous experience in a residential treatment program. Eighty percent had been treated for mental health related issues on an outpatient basis and 44% were using psychotropic medication. Fifty-four percent of patients were diagnosed as dependent on both alcohol and other drugs, while 43% were diagnosed as dependent on other drugs only (no alcohol).

Mental Health services are provided to residential primary care, extended care and intermediate care as well as outpatient clients.

Interdisciplinary Team
The treatment model utilized at Hazelden involves a multidisciplinary team. The interdisciplinary team consists of addiction professionals, psychologists, medical, spiritual and wellness professionals. Psychology plays an integral role in the multidisciplinary team to include assessment of psychological variability and differences, as well as provide co-case management to individuals with co-occurring mental health conditions and complications.

Resources
The Pre-Doctoral continuing education program offered through Hazelden Mental Health Centers is an extension of the student's academic learning that provides an avenue for the integration of knowledge and skill resulting in clinical competence. Consistent with Bellar and Perry (1990), the training in a scientist/practitioner model integrates prior learning from diverse courses and practicum experiences with application in a multifaceted practice. The internship is a seamless process of incremental learning involving key psychological processes that converge with the major practice domains of substance dependency, individual variability and mental health conditions and complications. Key psychological processes represent major methods of professional psychology based on the interdependence of service and skill.

Offices are housed in the Mental Heath Clinics in Center City or Plymouth, Minnesota. Each intern is equipped with a computer and other office materials and equipment as needed. Administrative support is available to assist with scheduling, billing, etc.

Computer Lab
The employee computer labs are available for specific blocks of time for student use and specific hours of availability are posted.