George Mason University Center for Community Mental Health - Adolescent/Young Adult Focus
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George Mason University
Fairfax, Virginia
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
Postdoctoral Fellow – Youth and Young Adult Clinical Psychology
The American Psychological Association (APA) accredited George Mason University (GMU) Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program, is seeking a youth and young adult Focused 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 working with youth, young adults and nontraditional college students from a variety of diverse backgrounds.
Specifically, the fellow will engage in comprehensive testing of youth, and college students with ADHD, anxiety, depression and other comorbidities, and assist in developing appropriate treatment recommendations as well as recommendations for college accommodations. This will include consultation with our colleagues across George Mason University, as well as our psychiatric nurse practitioner.
Our Fellow has the opportunity to learn and offer brief intervention services through our unique stepped care model (https://ccmh.gmu.edu/services) and provide evidence-based therapy to adolescents and/or young adults seen in our community based clinic, based on preference.
Additional optional experiences include helping supervise doctoral students in our clinical science program, provide clinical services in pediatric primary care or the pediatric endocrine clinic, or other community-based projects of interest.
Specifically, our Fellow will work at the CCMH full time, dividing your time between comprehensive testing and therapy for adolescents, young adults and nontraditional college students. The Fellow will complete approximately two comprehensive assessments per month, with an adolescent, young adult and nontraditional college student focus. In addition, you will carry a caseload of approximately 4 clients for evidence based therapy, which may include hours within the stepped care model program, which specifically targets underserved populations. You will have the opportunity to see a range of clients presenting with different issues, including clients who self-identify with a range of identities.
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 and opportunities to gain supervision experience of graduate students or externs. This is a great opportunity to gain hours for licensure and hone both testing and therapy skills. Supervision will be provided by a minimum of two supervisors, one for testing and one for therapy. Center therapy caseload will be adjusted if you choose to work in one of our community pediatric settings for ½ day/week.
Additional Information
- Agency Type
- Community Mental Health Center
- APPIC Membership
- No
- APA Accredited
- No
- Recognized Specialty
- Clinical Psychology
- Emphasis or focus area
- Assessment
- Other Emphasis
- Adolescent/Young Adult
- Research Time
- No research time
- Training Director
- Robyn Mehlenbeck, PhD, ABPP
- Contact Email
- rmehlenb@gmu.edu
- Contact Phone
- 7039931371
- Duration in Months
- 12
- Hours Per Week
- 40
- # of Licensed Supervisors
- 2
- Number of Positions
- 1
- Applications recieved last year
- 3
- Accepts Int'l Students
- Stipend
- $61500
- Will follow APPIC Selection Standards
- Created Date
- Wednesday, November 1 2023
- 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 opportunities for research with faculty specializing in working with college populations
- 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 2025-2026 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 6, 2024. 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 comprehensive assessment
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
- There is flexibility in the start date as we have an unexpected current opening. However, we plan to interview for the upcoming year. 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 Tuesday, October 8, 2024
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