Psychiatry and Psychological Services: Postdoctoral Fellowship in Clinical Child Psychology

Application Deadline

Applications for the 2012-2013 training year are due no later than January 15, 2012. Applicants should send a cover letter, CV, and three letters of recommendation to Dr. Sunita Stewart at sunita.stewart@utsouthwestern.edu. Applicants must also indicate in their application to which concentration area they are applying.  Please click here for detailed application information. Children’s Medical Center will participate in the Uniform Notification Date on March 14, 2012.  Please see the APPIC website for detailed information: http://www.appic.org/About-APPIC/Postdoctoral/APPIC-Postdoc-UNDr.

Philosophy

The Postdoctoral Fellowship in Clinical Child Psychology at Children's Medical Center Dallas provides training in clinical child psychology through the incorporation of specialized experiences in eating disorders, outpatient psychology/autism spectrum disorders, and pediatric health psychology in the pediatric setting. Fellows are trained as practitioner-scholars through a focus on direct clinical care and evidence-based practice. These skills are developed through multidisciplinary experiences in assessment, intervention, and consultation, including individual and group supervision, didactics, and a postdoctoral seminar. Supervision follows a developmental model. Multicultural competence and ethical practice are integral components of all areas of training. At the completion of the training year, fellows will be prepared for licensure and independent practice with children and adolescents and their families.

Overview of Training (PDF)

Clinical Concentrations

Eating Disorders

Outpatient Psychology/Autism Spectrum Disorders

Pediatric Health Psychology

Service Recipient Populations and Direct Service Delivery

Postdoctoral fellows at Children's Medical Center work with children, adolescents, and families presenting with a variety of mental health and medical diagnoses. Training at Children's also provides the opportunity to work with diverse and underserved populations, as a large number of families at CMC receive government subsidized health insurance, are of an ethnic minority population, and/or speak a language other than English as their primary language. The large majority of fellows' time is spent in direct service delivery.  In years that the training program includes bilingual trainees, a bilingual licensed psychologist at CMC offers group supervision in Spanish to facilitate trainees’ understanding and expression of psychological constructs and concepts in Spanish.

Opportunities Related to Diversity

Training at Children’s Medical Center offers postdoctoral fellows rich and varied training in cultural and individual diversity.  Fellows have the opportunity to work with patients and patient families of diverse backgrounds.  Diversity topics are also a focus of individual supervision, group supervision, and postdoc seminar.  Additionally, fellows at Children’s can participate in the following diversity-related training activities:

• Bilingual group supervision (in Spanish)
• Collaboration and mentorship with the Cultural Diversity Scholar, a first year graduate student in clinical psychology completing work at Children’s
• Participation in the Diversity Club offered at UTSW’s Clinical Psychology program

Supervision

Each fellow receives of minimum of two hours of individual, scheduled, face-to-face supervision each week, plus an additional two hours of structured learning activities (e.g., didactics, seminars, group supervision).

Didactics

• Postdoctoral Fellowship Seminar (PDF)
• Didactic Seminar & Journal Club (PDF)
• Consult Grand Rounds (PDF)
• Psychiatry Grand Rounds (PDF)
• Neuropsychology Didactics (PDF)
• Autism Program Weekly Meetings (PDF)
• Psychological Services Monthly Meetings (PDF)

Duration of Program

The Postdoctoral Fellowship in Clinical Child Psychology at Children's Medical Center is a full-time, 12 month program that begins in late August or early September each year.

APA Accreditation Status

The Postdoctoral Fellowship Training Program in Clinical Child Psychology is currently being reviewed by the American Psychological Association for accreditation.

The phone number for the APA Commission on Accreditation is 202-336-5979.