George Mason University Center for Community Mental Health - Child and Pediatric Psychology
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George Mason University
Fairfax, Virginia
Starts on Thursday, August 1, 2024
Applications due Friday, December 8, 2023
This program 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 mainly focused on providing supervised hours for licensure:
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This training experience ensures that training takes priority over service delivery regarding its nature, content, volume, and quality of training activities.
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This training experience ensures that postdocs receive at least two hours of individual supervision per week for the program's duration.
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This training experience ensures that postdocs receive at least two hours of individual supervision per week for the program's duration.
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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 program's goals and activities.
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This training experience has two or more psychologists who have sufficient time to provide quality supervision and training.
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This training experience includes regularly scheduled, structured educational activities that help postdocs meet your program’s defined goals. These activities may include didactics, seminars, case conferences, and/or research activities.
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The American Psychological Association (APA) accredited George Mason University (GMU) Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program, is seeking a Child Clinical/Pediatric Psychology Postdoctoral Fellow in our training clinic, the GMU Center for Community Mental Health. This is a 1-year full time position, with potential for renewal.
George Mason University has a strong institutional commitment to the achievement of excellence and diversity among its faculty and staff, and strongly encourages candidates to apply who will enrich Mason’s academic and culturally inclusive environment.
About the Program: George Mason University is the largest, most diverse public research university in Virginia. The Clinical Psychology Program is committed to training graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to meet the evolving roles of clinical psychologists in an evidence-based and antiracist framework. Detailed information about the program, including its mission statement, can be found at https://clinical.gmu.edu/. We strongly encourage individuals from underrepresented minority groups to apply.
Responsibilities:
Join our Center team to provide evidence-based therapy and testing services to the greater Washington DC community, with a focus on cultural sensitivity, accessibility, and equity. Our Postdoctoral Fellow will have an opportunity to gain experience across settings – both in primary care and a community-based mental health center.
Specifically, the fellow will engage in providing primary care behavioral health services at one or two of our partner pediatricians practices, as well as develop a combination of assessment and therapy hours at the Center. Specifically, our Fellow will work 10 -20 hours/week in our community partner pediatrics practice, providing short term, evidence-based therapy services as well as ongoing support to pediatricians, nurses and other providers.
The fellow will spend their additional time working at the GMU Center for Community Mental Health providing evidence-based testing and therapy services to children and adolescents (depending on preference). The Fellow will complete approximately two comprehensive assessments per month, with a child and/or adolescent focus. The remainder of hours will be determined by the Fellow’s interests, and include therapy, BRIEF intervention, supervision and/or other community-based intervention. Supplemental opportunities include helping supervise doctoral students in our clinical science program, gaining experience in our unique stepped care model of behavioral health (ccmh.gmu.edu/services/therapy), and other community-based projects of interest. There are additional opportunities to participate in monthly interdisciplinary case conferences with our psychiatric nurse practitioner colleagues who collaborate with us to provide sliding scale psychopharmacological services to our Center clients. This is a great opportunity to gain hours for licensure and hone both primary care and specialty care skills. Supervision will be provided by a minimum of three supervisors, one for primary care behavioral health, one for testing at the Center, and one for additional experiences that the Fellow chooses to pursue.
Additional Information
- Agency Type
- Community Mental Health Center
- APPIC Membership
- No
- APA Accredited
- No
- Recognized Specialty
- Clinical Child Psychology
- Emphasis or focus area
- Primary Care
- Other Emphasis
- Child/Adolescent
- Research Time
- No research time
- Training Director
- Robyn Mehlenbeck, PhD, ABPP
- Contact Email
- rmehlenb@gmu.edu
- Contact Phone
- 7039931371
- Virtual Interviews
- Available
- Duration in Months
- 12
- Hours Per Week
- 40
- # of Licensed Supervisors
- 2
- Number of Positions
- 1
- Applications recieved last year
- 6
- Stipend
- $61500
- Will follow APPIC Selection Standards
- Yes
- Estimated offer date
- Monday, January 8 2024
- Created Date
- Friday, November 4 2022
- Unfilled Positions
- 0
- Fringe Benefits
- Benefits at Mason are excellent. You are listed as an administrative faculty member, with all benefits as such including health insurance, paid leave and retirement savings. Mason also closes for 2 weeks at the end of December/early January and this is paid time off that does not count against your leave.
- Research opportunities
- Research is optional, but as we are part of the Clinical Science APA approved doctoral program, there are many opportunities for pediatric and/or child clinical research with our faculty.
- Additional Comments
- Required Qualifications:
Ph.D. or Psy.D. in clinical psychology from an APA-accredited program by the start date of the position; completion of an APA-accredited predoctoral internship; and prior experience with both therapy and testing of children/adolescents. All degree requirements, including dissertation defense, must be completed prior to beginning fellowship. The stipend for the 2024-2025 Fellowship year is $61,500.
Note: Because this position involves working with minors, university policy requires a criminal background check prior to employment.
Deadline for applications is Friday, December 8, 2023. Interviews will be completed virtually for this training year. Interested candidates are encouraged to submit the following:
1. Cover letter
2. Curriculum Vitae
3. Graduate School Transcript (does not need to be an official transcript)
4. Three (3) Letters of Recommendation
5. De-identified sample child comprehensive assessment report
Applications can be submitted through e-mail to:
Robyn Mehlenbeck, PhD at rmehlenb@gmu.edu or
Alison Senold, MA at asenold@gmu.edu
- Application Instructions
- Deadline for applications is Friday, December 8, 2023. Interviews will be completed virtually for this training year. Interested candidates are encouraged to submit the following:
1. Cover letter
2. Curriculum Vitae
3. Graduate School Transcript (does not need to be an official transcript)
4. Three (3) Letters of Recommendation
5. De-identified sample child comprehensive assessment report
Applications can be submitted through e-mail to:
Robyn Mehlenbeck, PhD at rmehlenb@gmu.edu or
Alison Senold, MA at asenold@gmu.edu
This record was last updated on Wednesday, November 1, 2023
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