Postdoctoral Fellowship in Clinical High Risk for Psychosis Assessment and Intervention
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University of Nevada, Las Vegas (Psychology Department)
Las Vegas, Nevada
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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.
This training experience does not meet one or more of the elements of quality clinically-focused postdoctoral training. Applicants are encouraged to consider this in making decisions about post-internship plans.
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.
No
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 Department of Psychology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas invites applications for a postdoctoral position in the CHARGE UP Clinical High Risk for Psychosis coordinated specialty care (CSC) treatment program in collaboration with UNLV PRACTICE, UNLV Health, and NAMI Southern Nevada. Our postdoctoral fellowship program is designed to promote clinical skill development toward independent licensure in a setting that values socially and culturally responsive practice in training and clinical care.
The successful candidate will become part of a multi-disciplinary CSC program that provides assessment and intervention to aged 12-25 years old who are at clinical high risk for psychosis. The program is led by Daniel Allen, Ph.D. and aims to identify, assess, and treat individuals who are at clinical high risk for psychosis in order to (1) delay and mitigate the deleterious clinical and social outcomes associated with the disorders and (2) reduce the societal and economic burdens produced by lengthy durations of untreated illness. Individuals seen in the program often have additional presenting concerns, including depressive disorders, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder. The postdoctoral fellow will provide evidence-based assessment and intervention services to program clients, help coordinate outreach and referral activities, provide supervision to CSC trainees, and complete other related responsibilities. Opportunities to provide telehealth services through the Rural Communities Mental Health Outreach Program at UNLV PRACTICE are also available. Additional information regarding the CHARGE UP Clinical High Risk for Psychosis can be found at https://www.unlv.edu/thepractice/charge-up.
UNLV: The Department of Psychology has 29 full-time faculty members and more than 80 doctoral students. The Department offers doctoral degrees in Clinical Psychology (APA accredited, www.unlv.edu/psychology/graduateprograms/phd-clinical) and Psychological and Brain Sciences (www.unlv.edu/psychology/graduateprograms/phd-psychological) with cognitive, developmental, neuroscience, and quantitative/social/community areas of study. The department also offers a B.A. in psychology and a neuroscience minor. UNLV is a doctoral-degree-granting institution of approximately 29,000 students and more than 3,000 faculty and staff that is classified R1 by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. UNLV is the third most ethnically diverse campus in the nation, with over 20,000 students from underrepresented groups. UNLV has been designated as an Asian American and Native American, Pacific Islander-Serving Institution (AANAPISI) and as a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI). The university is committed to recruiting and retaining top students and faculty, building and fostering a culturally inclusive environment, educating the region's diversifying population and workforce, driving economic activity through increased research and community partnerships, and creating an academic health center for Southern Nevada that includes the UNLV School of Medicine. UNLV is located on a 332-acre main campus and two satellite campuses in Southern Nevada. For more information, visit us online at: http://www.unlv.edu.
Additional Information
- Agency Type
- Other
- APPIC Membership
- No
- APA Accredited
- No
- Recognized Specialty
- Clinical Psychology
- Emphasis or focus area
- Serious Mental Illness
- Research Time
- Less than 25%
- Training Director
- Daniel Allen, Ph.D.
- Contact Email
- Daniel.allen@unlv.edu
- Contact Phone
- 702-856-6059
- Virtual Interviews
- Virtual Only
- Duration in Months
- 12
- Hours Per Week
- 40
- # of Licensed Supervisors
- 3
- Number of Positions
- 1
- Applications recieved last year
- 1
- Stipend
- $65000
- Will follow APPIC Selection Standards
- No
- Estimated offer date
- Thursday, October 24 2024
- Created Date
- Tuesday, May 14 2024
- Unfilled Positions
- 1
- Fringe Benefits
- Health Insurance; Retirement - Mandatory 403(b) plan. Employee & Employer contribution; Paid Vacation, Holiday and Sick Time; Full University library privileges, access to Faculty and Staff Primary Care Clinic, campus wellness center, and other campus amenities (e.g. reduced fee sporting or performing arts event tickets) etc.; funds and paid leave to support training (e.g. conference registration and travel) or licensing/examination fees.
- Research opportunities
- The first year of the program will focus on establishing assessment and intervention services. Outcome data and other program evaluation metrics will be collected and reported back to grant funders. As the program develops research opportunities are expected to follow. Dr. Allen welcomes inquiries regarding the research plan he expects to emerge from this service grant.
- Additional Comments
- This position is newly funded by the state of Nevada. It is an exciting opportunity to build an innovative program in a high-need, underserved area with an enthusiastic interdisciplinary team. There may be an opportunity to extend the position to a second year depending on performance evaluation and funding.
- Application Instructions
- Applicants must have a doctorate in Clinical, Counseling or School Psychology from an APA-accredited training program. Preferred qualifications include experience providing evidence-based assessment and intervention services to individuals with early serious mental illness in the context of an interdisciplinary program. The position starts as soon as possible. Address all inquiries to Dr. Allen (daniel.allen@unlv.edu). To apply, email Dr. Allen your CV, names and contact information for three professional references, and a detailed cover letter describing your clinical and research experience, career goals, and other qualifications for the current position. Ask your references to email their letters of support to Dr. Allen. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position fills. If we are interested based on your initial application, we will conduct a brief telephone interview. Full virtual interviews will be offered to top candidates.
This record was last updated on Thursday, October 24, 2024
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