St Luke's Post-Doc

ST. LUKE’S ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH

POSTDOCTORAL PSYCHOLOGY FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM

Positions are available in the Adult and Child Tracks of our Postdoctoral Psychology Fellowship Program.

The two tracks are separately described in the following document. Please Note: Application processes for the Adult and Child Tracks are slightly different.

Adult Track

Settings:

  • Center For The Intensive Treatment Of Personality Disorders – a DBT- driven program, infused with psychodynamic and process work, for individuals with personality disorders and other disorders;
  • Psychiatric Recovery Center – a Recovery Model-Based program for individuals with severe mental illness – integrating supportive, DBT-informed, CBT-informed, process-informed and other therapies, with case management, psychopharamacologic treatment, vocational rehabilitation and other services
  • Addiction Institute of New York – a comprehensive addiction treatment facility, including intensive inpatient and outpatient programs, outpatient individual and group psychotherapy, detoxification, and methadone, buprenorphine and other psychopharmacologic treatment, as well as specialty programs, tailored for various subgroups of patients
  • Trauma Focused Programs – a multi-faceted program for survivors of trauma or abuse, many of whom are also in substance abuse recovery. It provides empirically supported individual and group psychotherapy, pharmacotherapy and case management. Clients may have a range of problems (e.g. PTSD and other significant anxiety or mood disorders, or dissociative disorders).
  • Outpatient Psychiatric Clinic – a high volume, psychiatric outpatient clinic, serving a diverse population of individuals with wide-ranging sociodemiographic, ethnocultural and psychiatric characteristics.

Clinical, Supervisory and Didactic Activities:

  • Experience in individual psychotherapy, group therapy, crisis intervention, and, in some Programs, dyadic/family therapy, and testing and/or evaluation, as well as in conducting supervision
  • Intensive supervision
  • Under the leadership of Leora Heckelman Ph.D., Associate Director, Adult Psychology Education:
    • Case conference (viewing target cases from different theoretical/technical perspectives)
    • Specialty didactic modules on newly evolving, evidence-based intervention modalities
    • Intensive psychoanalytically-driven Psychotherapy Case Conference
    • Supervision seminar – including discussion of theories of supervision, an opportunity to supervise, and live supervision of supervision

Terms: One-year Fellowships – from July 1 – June 30 – at a salary of $35,000 with full benefits

Eligibility:

  • Must have completed an APA-accredited internship
  • Must have completed coursework in an APA-accredited Ph.D.or Psy.D program in clinical or counseling psychology. This includes completion of defense of doctoral dissertation.

Application Process: By January 9, please email:

  • CV
  • Cover letter -- highlighting the aspects of your clinical and academic experiences and your interests which align with the Fellowship(s) you are seeking)
  • 2 Letters of Recommendation (from Doctoral Program and Internship)

To: Susan Tross Ph.D., Director, Psychology Education and Training, stross@chpnet.org AND

To: Director(s) of the Fellowship(s) to which you are applying:

Center For The Intensive Treatment of Personality Disorders: Andrew Twardon Ph.D. – atwardon@chpnet.org

Addiction Institute: Paul Rinaldi Ph.D. – prinaldi@chpnet.org

Psychiatric Outpatient Clinic: Paul Rosenfield M.D. – prosenfield@chpnet.org

Psychiatric Recovery Center: Susan Palmgren Ph.D. – spalmgre@chpnet.org

Trauma-Focused Programs: Lisa Litt Ph.D. – llitt@chpnet.org

Post-Doctoral Fellowship Positions in Child and Adolescent Psychology at the Child and Family Institute 2014-2015

Introduction:

Each year the Child and Family Institute at St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital Center offers post-doctoral fellowship positions for candidates who are interested in extending their knowledge and experience in the practice of clinical work with urban children, adolescents and families. All of our fellowships offer a full range of training experiences in clinical work with an ethnically and socio-economically diverse population. Fellows provide individual, group, dyadic and family therapy, crisis services, diagnostic interviews, neuropsychological assessment and school and community-based interventions. The implementation of empirically validated strategies is emphasized. All fellows have the opportunity to develop supervisory skills and will participate in advanced courses on supervision and psychotherapy. We offer five positions based in our outpatient department (OPD) and one in the Comprehensive Rehabilitation and Education Service (CARES), a day program for singly and dually-diagnosed teens.

Program Descriptions:

The post-doctoral fellowship training program in psychology at the Child and Family Institute OPD consists of the following tracks:

Parent-Infant Treatment/Community Psychology:

The fellowship in our Parent-Infant Center (PIC) provides the opportunity for two trainees to spend approximately half of the their time focusing on assessment, intervention strategies, and program development related to work with at-risk caregivers and their babies/toddlers ages 0 to 3. Under the supervision of Dr. Wendie Klapper and a team of specialists in early childhood development, the fellows will conduct intakes, developmental screenings and dyadic psychotherapy sessions with the goal of facilitating the establishment of healthy attachments between caregivers and their young children and promoting healthy child and parent development.

Testing and Assessment/Community Psychology:

The fellowship in Testing and Assessment will allow one trainee to focus on the development of skills in neuropsychological testing and assessment with adolescents who present with learning difficulties and developmental delays. This fellow will spend time each week in our adolescent day program administering evaluations, analyzing results, writing reports and collaborating with educational and clinical staff to implement recommendations. The fellow will work closely with Dr. Preetika Mukherjee, a pediatric neuropsychologist who will provide mentoring and supervision.

Community Psychology (DBT Focus):

Under the supervision of Clare Dacey, LCSW and Dana Parchi, Psy.D. this post-doc will learn about the assessment and treatment of patients with affect regulation difficulties. Responsibilities will include providing evidence-based Dialectical Behavior Therapy in both individual and group formats to adolescents and their families in our outpatient program. Individual supervision will be provided by the program’s lead clinicians. The fellow in this position will also attend weekly consultation team meetings as well as an intensive didactic course on DBT.

The other portion of the fellows’ clinical time for all of these positions will be spent working in the general OPD and in the community treating children and adolescents in satellite clinics located within local elementary and high schools. Throughout the training year they will have the opportunity to supervise both psychology and psychiatry trainees as part of a course on supervision. They will also attend case conferences, Journal Club, Grand Rounds and a variety of individual and group supervision sessions (i.e., family therapy supervision and group therapy supervision).

Adolescent Substance Abuse and Day Treatment:

This is a one-year full time position for a recent, unlicensed Ph.D. or Psy.D. interested in working with adolescents who have co-occurring psychiatric and substance abuse diagnoses in a milieu treatment setting. Fellowship training takes place at the Comprehensive Adolescent Rehabilitation and Education Service (CARES). At CARES the fellow will act as a junior staff member in a community-oriented day treatment setting serving high school students with integrated Mental Health, Substance Abuse, and educational services. The fellow will also serve as a clinical liaison to the Education Staff. The CARES program incorporates an eclectic approach to treatment with an emphasis on Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), the Transtheoretical Model of Stages of Change, and trauma-focused treatments. The fellow will receive intensive training and supervision in these models. They will also receive training in the treatment of substance abuse and will have the opportunity to provide clinical supervision to a pre-doctoral intern. As part of their training, fellows also function as milieu staff where they gain experience in brief solution-focused triage and intervention. Fellows carry a caseload of individual therapy patients and co-lead various therapy groups, which may include recovery groups as well as DBT groups. Fellows also conduct psychiatric intake evaluations for CARES referrals.. In addition, they take seminars on professional development, supervision and advanced psychotherapy techniques. Additional opportunities for supervision and/or teaching at CFI may be available and can be tailored to individual interests.

Stipend and Benefits:

The stipend for the post-doctoral fellowships is currently $35,000. Post-doctoral fellows are entitled to full health insurance benefits for themselves and their families. They received four weeks of paid vacation, four personal days, twelve sick days and three conference days.

Instructions for Applying:

In order to be considered for a position applicants are required to defend their dissertations by June 30, 2014.

Please include the following materials in with your application:

1) One copy of your CV

2) One copy of a psychological testing report if you are applying for a testing position

3) One copy of an article/manuscript OR a brief (600 words or less) description of your dissertation research

4) Official transcript(s) of doctoral-level work

5) Two letters of reference (one academic/research, one clinical)

6) One copy of a personal statement illustrating your ideas about how the fellowship you are applying for will help you reach specific professional goals.

All applications are due by January 6th, 2014. If you mail your application all materials must be sent in a single envelope. Email submissions must be sent with all documents attached to a single message. Offers for all positions will be made on February 19th, 2014.

Please send your application to the attention of:

Rakiya Spady, Education Coordinator

St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital Center

Department of Psychiatry

1090 Amsterdam Avenue,16th FL

New York, NY

10025

Telephone: (212) 523-5194

Fax: (212) 523-3642

Email: rspady@chpnet.org

Please contact Elizabeth Merrill, Psy.D., ABPP, CGP, Assistant Director of Child and Adolescent Psychology Education and Training with questions about these positions at emerrill@chpnet.org.