Children's Health Children's Medical Center Dallas - Outpatient Psychology Concentration (Outpatient Assessment/Intervention/Consultation Position and Suicide/Depression Position)
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Children's Health Children's Medical Center Dallas
Dallas, Texas
Starts on Monday, August 25, 2025
Applications due Monday, December 9, 2024
This training experience has chosen to follow the APPIC Postdoctoral Selection Guidelines.
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 Center for Pediatric Psychiatry at Children’s HealthSM in Dallas, Texas invites applicants for its APA-accredited Postdoctoral Fellowship in Clinical Child Psychology beginning late August, 2025. Six positions will be available within the Outpatient Psychology, Pediatric Health Psychology, or Eating Disorders concentrations:
Outpatient Psychology Concentration (2 positions)
General outpatient (1 position)
This position is focused on assessment and intervention for a diagnostically complex and high acuity population within an outpatient psychiatry clinic. Rotations for this position include:
- Early Childhood Mental Health Clinic (ECMHC) - major rotation in multidisciplinary assessment of preschool-aged children with behavioral concerns
- Therapeutic Assessment - major rotation in collaborative assessment model aimed at helping families develop a new understanding of their child, utilizing cognitive/neuropsychological measures, structured observation, projective and relationship-based assessment
- Outpatient Intervention - major rotation in individual and/or family therapy and parent consultation, as well as advanced training in the treatment of non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) and depression; caseload shaped by fellow's interests and training goals
- Functional Neurological Disorders Clinic - minor rotation in brief evaluation and consultation
- Social Competence Intervention Program (SCIP) - co-facilitation of weekly social skills group
Suicide/depression (1 position)
The postdoc in the suicide/depression position will focus on evaluation and treatment of suicidality and depression in adolescents. Clinical experience occurs primarily within a multidisciplinary intensive outpatient program (IOP) that is based in CBT and DBT-informed skills. Postdocs provide individual, family, adolescent group, and multi-family group interventions. This position also provides the opportunity for a small outpatient caseload.
Additional Information:
- Children’s Health is one of the largest pediatric healthcare providers in the nation and is ranked in all 10 specialties by US News and World Report.
- Fellows have the opportunity to work with patients who are diverse in age, diagnosis, functioning, family structure, socioeconomic status, religious and cultural background, gender identity and expression, and sexual orientation.
- Robust professional development programming is integrated into the fellowship, including:
- Training in supervision and opportunities for umbrella supervision of interns and students
- Experience with integration of program development and research into clinical care
- Preparation for licensure/EPPP
- Early career development
- Training in delivery of clinical services and group supervision in Spanish
Additional Information
- Agency Type
- Childrens Hospital
- APPIC Membership
- Yes
- APA Accredited
- Yes
- Recognized Specialty
- Clinical Child Psychology
- Emphasis or focus area
- Child/Adolescent
- Other Emphasis
- Outpatient Psychology
- Research Time
- Less than 25%
- Training Director
- Celia Heppner, PsyD, ABPP (Alexis Clyde, PhD, ABPP and Jessica Heerschap, PhD, ABPP - concentration primary supervisors)
- Contact Email
- ClinicalChildPsychologyFellowship@childrens.com
- Contact Phone
- 214-456-7000
- Virtual Interviews
- Strongly Preferred
- Duration in Months
- 12
- Hours Per Week
- 40
- # of Licensed Supervisors
- 40
- Number of Positions
- 2
- Applications recieved last year
- 15
- Stipend
- $61,008
- Will follow APPIC Selection Standards
- Yes
- Estimated offer date
- Wednesday, January 15 2025
- Created Date
- Friday, July 1 2016
- Unfilled Positions
- 0
- Fringe Benefits
- Our fellows are eligible for an educational allowance of up to $1,000 annually, which may be used for licensure preparation and fees as well as conference attendance. A one-time relocation allotment is provided upon starting the program for fellows who are moving from more than 50 miles away. Fellows receive a comprehensive benefits package, which includes Paid Time Off (at an accrual rate of 7.7 hours/biweekly pay period, or approximately 25 days/year), as well as health insurance, prescription coverage, vision and dental insurance, and retirement savings plans. In addition to regular Paid Time Off, fellows are eligible for up to 10 paid education days per year for conferences, job interviews, taking the EPPP, and other professionally relevant activities. Children’s covers the cost of premiums for basic life insurance, basic AD&D coverage, and short and long-term disability insurance, and matches employee dependent care savings contributions at 25%, up to $1000/year. Fellows are also eligible for other employee savings programs, including discounts on services and products and subsidized regional public transit passes. Children’s covers the cost of professional liability insurance for psychology fellows.
- Research opportunities
- Opportunities are available for postdoctoral fellows to be involved in program development and research through fellow-directed project.
- Additional Comments
Accreditation Status:
The Postdoctoral Fellowship Training Program in Clinical Child Psychology is accredited by the American Psychological Association (APA). Questions related to the program’s accreditation status should be directed to the Commission on Accreditation: Office of Program Consultation & Accreditation, 750 First Street NE, Washington, DC, 20002-4242 (Phone: 202-336-5979).
Non-Discriminatory Hiring, Selection, and Employment:
The success of Children’s Health System of Texas and its affiliates (collectively, Children’s HealthSM) is dependent on the talents of individuals with different experiences, strengths, cultures, and perspectives. As an equal opportunity employer, Children’s Health does not discriminate against employees or applicants because of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, national origin, military status, disability, or genetic information. This applies to all aspects of the employer-employee relationship including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, promotion, transfer, pay, training, discipline, reduction in staff, termination, employee benefits, and activities.
- Application Instructions
Applications are due December 9th, 2024 and will be received through the APPA, the Centralized Application System implemented by APPIC. Please go to https://appicpostdoc.liaisoncas.com/applicant-ux/#/login to submit your materials.
Materials required will include:
- Cover letter, describing the following:
- Concentration area and position of interest (each applicant may apply for only one concentration/position)
- Statement of interest and fit with the position
- Accreditation status of graduate and internship programs
- Anticipated date of degree conferral
- Curriculum vitae (CV)
- Three letters of recommendation
- Two de-identified work samples
- Degree conferral attestation form, signed by applicant and graduate program advisor or DCT (available on APPA portal)
This record was last updated on Monday, September 23, 2024
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