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Mount Sinai Morningside/Harlem Health Center High-Risk DBT Fellowship

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Mount Sinai Morningside/Harlem Health Center
New York, New York

Starts on Friday, August 15, 2025

Applications due Sunday, December 1, 2024

This training experience will NOT follow the APPIC Selection Standards with Common Hold Date (CHD) and may not allow applicants to hold offers until the CHD. Applicants may need to respond to an offer for this position prior to completing interviews or knowing their standing with other positions.

This training experience is not an APPIC Member program and is not APA Accredited. Applicants should be aware that this training experience has not undergone a formal external quality review process.

Elements of quality clinically focused postdoctoral training

This training experience is a planned and programmed sequence of training that aims to ensure preparation for advanced practice rather than one that is focused on providing supervised hours for licensure. Yes

This training experience ensures that training takes precedence over service delivery regarding the nature, content, volume, and quality of the postdoc’s activities. Yes

This training experience ensures that postdocs receive at least two hours of individual supervision per week for the duration oof the experience. Yes

This training experience is administered by a doctoral-level licensed psychologist who directs and organizes the training experience and its resources, is responsible for the selection of postdocs, and monitors and evaluates the goals and activities of the experience. Yes

This training experience has two or more doctoral-level licensed psychologists who have sufficient time to provide quality supervision and training.   Yes

This training experience includes regularly scheduled structured educational activities that help postdocs its defined goals. These activities may include didactics, seminars, case conferences, and/or research activities. Yes

This training experience has written Due Process and Grievance procedures. Yes

This training experience has the stable and necessary financial (e.g., stipend) and physical resources (e.g., computers, physical space) needed for effective training. Yes

The Mount Sinai Morningside/Harlem Health Center High-Risk DBT Fellowship is a one-year, full-time, postdoctoral training opportunity based at MSM Harlem Health Center's Child and Family Institute, Outpatient Department (CFI-OPD). The goal of the Fellowship is to gain experience providing psychotherapy to underserved youth (7-17yo) and their families in an urban hospital setting, with a focus on working with high-risk cases and cases enrolled in the clinic's comprehensive DBT-A program. The Fellow's caseload will be comprised of both general OPD cases and DBT-A cases (DBT cases are capped at 4). Fellows will also complete intakes and co-lead multifamily and/or teen DBT groups. 

The Fellow will receive 2 hours of individual supervision per week, plus weekly DBT consultation team meetings as well as weekly DBT group prep/supervision meetings. Didactics: Fellows participate in a weekly supervision class (1 hour) focused on theoretical and practical aspects of supervision, a weekly didactic course (1.5 hours) focused on a variety of topics, and a 6 month DEI lecture series. Fellows will have opportunities to provide supervision to trainees and staff and will be asked to teach didactics throughout the academic year (depending on the year, may be asked to teach to medical residents and/or OPD externs). The Fellowship start date will likely be mid-August or early September 2025, but may vary based on date of degree conferral. Please reach out to Dr. Izzo with any questions about start date/limited permit concerns.

About Mount Sinai Morningside/Harlem Health Center's Child and Family Institute, Outpatient Department: CFI-OPD is a psychiatric outpatient clinic that emphasizes evidenced-based practices within a culturally informed, shared decision-making model of care. The clinic offers diagnostic and therapeutic services to youth and their families with a wide range of sociodemographic, ethnocultural, and diagnostic characteristics. This is a multidisciplinary environment where Fellows work and collaborate with psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, case managers, and trainees of all levels. 

Qualifications: Fellows must have completed their dissertation defense in an APA-accredited Ph.D or Psy.D. program in clinical or counseling psychology or combined clinical-school psychology and completed their APA-Accredited psychology internship.

Additional Information

Agency Type
Private/General Hospital
APPIC Membership
No
APA Accredited
No
Recognized Specialty
Clinical Child Psychology
Emphasis or focus area
Child/Adolescent
Other Emphasis
evidence-based treatment, high-risk, DBT, outpatient
Research Time
No research time
Training Director
Leora Heckelman, PhD; Genevieve Izzo, PhD
Contact Email
genevieve.izzo@mountsinai.org
Contact Phone
332-243-0302
Virtual Interviews
Virtual Only
Duration in Months
12
Hours Per Week
40
# of Licensed Supervisors
2
Number of Positions
1
Applications recieved last year
25
Stipend
$60,400
Will follow APPIC Selection Standards
No
Estimated offer date
Monday, January 15 2024
Created Date
Wednesday, December 21 2016
Unfilled Positions
0
Fringe Benefits
full health benefits
Application Instructions
To Apply, please submit the following materials via email to Dr. Genevieve Izzo at Genevieve.izzo@mountsinai.org: 1) CV, 2) official transcript of doctoral-level work, 3) two letters of reference, 4) a letter of interest. Please direct inquiries to: Genevieve Izzo, PhD Director, Adolescent Dialectical Behavior Therapy Program Mount Sinai Harlem Health Center Genevieve.izzo@mountsinai.org 332-243-0302

This record was last updated on Friday, October 4, 2024

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