POSITION SUMMARY:
Fellowship position to train with child psychiatry staff and pediatric & psychiatry mentors to become a clinician and researcher in pediatric behavioral health.
Position: Children and Family focused Community based Postdoctoral Fellow
Department: Psychiatry
Schedule: Full Time
ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES / DUTIES:
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Characteristics of normal and abnormal child development
- Comprehensive psychiatric diagnostic evaluation of children and adolescents
- Differential diagnosis of child and adolescent psychiatric disorders
- Bio/psychosocial clinical formulation
- Comprehensive treatment planning
- Evidence-based treatments for child and adolescent psychiatric disorders
- Utilizing child-serving systems that interface with children and adolescents experiencing psychiatric disorders
- Appropriate use of standardized symptom rating scales
- Cultural competence
- Utilization management and quality improvement initiatives
- Clinical documentation using electronic format
- Compliance with regulatory agency requirements
- Appropriate billing for clinical services
- Collaboration with medical professionals
- Standards of care in child and adolescent psychiatry
- Gain knowledge and experience in the following research skills:
- Quantitative and qualitative research design and methodology
- Statistical analysis and interpretation
- Literature search methodology and bias ratings of extant literature
- Gain knowledge and experience in the following teaching skills:
- Teaching evidence-based therapy to clinical social workers
- Teaching child & adolescent psychopathology and evidence-based management to primary care physicians and residents
JOB REQUIREMENTS
Basic requirements
Successful applicants will have:
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Earned a doctorate in psychology (including defense of dissertation prior to the start of fellowship) from an appropriate health service provider training program in a properly accredited doctoral training program
- Completed an internship accredited by the American Psychological Association/Canadian Psychological Association prior to the beginning of fellowship
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