Universal Psychology Postdoctoral Directory Entry

Arizona Psychology Training Consortium/ Gentry Pediatric Behavioral Services

Arizona Psychology Training Consortium
Phoenix, Arizona

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Applications due Thursday, January 2, 2025

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

Gentry PBS provides comprehensive, diagnostic evaluations to help identify and understand a child’s strengths and needs. Testing also helps to provide a better understanding of a child’s behavior, emotions and/or learning styles. The goal of a comprehensive evaluation is for parents to have a complete understanding of their child’s current functioning, diagnosis, and treatment needs. Information is gathered through a variety of sources, and often includes a diagnostic clinical interview with parents; direct testing of intelligence, academic achievement, executive functioning skills, phonological processing, speech and language, and/or the ADOS-2 (Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule); interviews with teachers and related service providers, and social-emotional and behavioral questionnaires. Gentry PBS also conducts observations in the natural setting, such as school, home, or a community location, when appropriate. Once evaluations are completed, parents are provided with a comprehensive evaluation report. We also meet with parents for a feedback session to go over all assessment results and recommendations and answer any questions they may have and to be sure that they have a plan moving forward.

The psychologists at Gentry PBS have been extensively trained in the areas of assessment and treatment of a variety of childhood struggles and disabilities. Most evaluations conducted at Gentry PBS are done with more than one psychologist to provide collaboration between our professionals. Our doctors believe that a team approach to evaluation and diagnosis allows us to look at each case from multiple perspectives to be sure that we are making the best clinical decisions possible, while we also work closely with parents and caregivers to get information and input from those who know our patients the best. Gentry PBS also employs Speech/Language Pathologists and Board Certified Behavior Analysts who often work together as a multidisciplinary team on more complex cases.

Gentry PBS has experience in working with and diagnosing many childhood challenges and disabilities including, but not limited to: Autism Spectrum Disorder, AD/HD, Learning Disorders and/or Dyslexia, Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Depression, Anxiety, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Conduct Disorder, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Selective Mutism, and Attachment Disorder. Additionally, Gentry PBS conducts testing for giftedness.

Expected work hours are typical, Monday-Friday (9am-5pm), but we are flexible with options to do indirect work from home. No evening or weekend work.

Our site provides numerous benefits including: Health Insurance, Dental, 401(K) with 3% match, Life Insurance, generous PTO, Stipend towards EPPP study materials, Cell Phone, Computer. We also help set aside dedicated EPPP study time for the resident.

https://www.azptc.org

Additional Information

Agency Type: Private Practice Clinic
APPIC Membership: Yes
APA Accredited: No
Recognized Specialty: Clinical Child Psychology
Emphasis or focus area: Assessment
Other Emphasis: Pediatric Diagnostic; Evaluations/Multidisciplinary Evaluations. Although we see children with a wide range of concerns, we are most well known for our work in the ASD field.
Research Time: No research time
Training Director: Elizabeth Capps-Conkle, Psy.D.
Contact Email: drcappsconkle@gmail.com
Contact Phone: 480-712-9998
Virtual Interviews: Available
Duration in Months: 12
Hours Per Week: 40
# of Licensed Supervisors: 3
Number of Positions: 2
Applications recieved last year: 10
Stipend: $55,000
Will follow APPIC Selection Standards: Yes
Estimated offer date: Saturday, February 15 2025
Created Date: Wednesday, July 25 2018
Unfilled Positions: yes
Fringe Benefits: Our site provides numerous benefits including: Health Insurance, Dental, 401(K) with 3% match, Life Insurance, generous PTO, Stipend towards EPPP study materials, Cell Phone, Computer. We also help set aside dedicated EPPP study time for the resident.
Research opportunities: None
Additional Comments: The psychologists at Gentry PBS have been extensively trained in the areas of assessment and treatment of a variety of childhood struggles and disabilities, including learning disabilities, anxiety/depression, selective mutism, AD/HD, ASD, OCD, developmental disorders and conduct/behavioral disorders. Most evaluations conducted at Gentry PBS are done with more than one psychologist to provide collaboration between our professionals. Our doctors believe that a team approach to evaluation and diagnosis allows us to look at each case from multiple perspectives to be sure that we are making the best clinical decisions possible, while we also work closely with parents and caregivers to get information and input from those who know our patients the best. Gentry PBS also employs Speech/Language Pathologists and Board Certified Behavior Analysts who often work together as a multidisciplinary team on more complex cases. 70% Evaluation/Direct Assessment, 20% Report Writing, 10% Other (Counseling/Group/Therapy) Individual Supervision is provided.
Application Instructions: Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Please send a letter of interest and CV to both Dr. Joe Gentry Joe@gentrypbs.com and Dr. Elizabeth Capps-Conkle: drcappsconkle@gmail.com Applications accepted throughout the year. Residency may start on any date, depending upon when positions open. The full application includes: Letter of Interest, CV, transcript, (3) letters of recommendation, and expected graduation date.

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