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Psychology Fellowships
Fellowship overview
Psychology fellowships will be available for graduates of PhD, EdD and PsyD programs in Clinical, Counseling or Educational Psychology, starting Sept. 2008. Applicants will be required to have completed a full year (1,500 clinical hours) of pre-doctoral internship and are expected to have completed their doctorates by Sept. 2008.
The goals of our Psychology Fellowship are similar to those of our Psychology Internship:
- To develop competent, effective child and family therapists with expertise in the pediatric and urban community setting.
- To expose trainees to a wide range of psychological, developmental, behavioral pediatrics, and family systems issues in the context of a children’s healthcare system.
- To develop clinicians knowledgeable about multicultural issues and sensitive to working with families from a variety of cultural, socioeconomic and gender backgrounds.
- To develop familiarity with the medical treatment of children and with the uses of psychotropic medication, where appropriate.
- To develop the ability to work comfortably and effectively within a treatment team which includes physicians, school and community personnel.
- To enhance skills in working collaboratively with the many systems that interface with the mental health system in the care of children including foster care, schools, the courts, county mental health and social services.
Specific to our Psychology Fellowships, it is our goal to:
- Provide more intensive and specialized training at an advanced level in the specialty area of placement.
Psychology fellows will work with more challenging patients, assume a higher level of responsibility appropriate to their level of skills, and will be assigned roles not expected of psychology interns. For example, depending on their program, they might have such duties as consultant to specialty clinics, consultation-liaison to particular in-patient units, on-call duties, etc. Fellows will have access to a range of didactic seminars, case conferences, training experiences and hospital-wide events.
Each site offers different specialized services, different training experiences and different emphases. For example, ages of patients served, typical diagnoses of patients treated and treatment approaches will vary by department/service placement.
Psychology fellow positions are available in the following departments:
Psychology fellowship
As with our internships, our fellowships are paid positions, and include vacation, health and dental benefits. The deadline to apply is Feb. 10, 2008.
To apply please send the following materials to the program of
interest below:
1. A cover letter describing your background and interests.
2. Your C.V.
3. Three letters of recommendation
4. Your graduate program transcript
5. Part I (only) of the AAPI, which is found on the APPIC website.
If you wish, you can simply update Part I of your
previous year's internship application and send it to us.
Readiness for Fellowship
All Psychology Fellows must have completed all requirements for
graduation from their doctoral programs by the starting date of the
fellowship. This is defined as having the diploma in hand on the first
day of Fellowship, or a letter from their Director of Graduate Studies
verifying the completion of all degree requirements pending the
institution's graduation ceremony. Completion of all degree/graduation requirements is necessary so that the Fellow can successfully apply for Registered Psychologist status from the Board of Psychology before starting Fellowship training.
Upon acceptance of our initial Fellowship offer, the applicant will
also be required to provide a letter from her/his dissertation chair
verifying the applicant's ability to meet the above completion
requirements by the first week of September.
To apply, please contact the program of interest below:
Early Childhood Mental Health
Mary Claire Heffron, PhD
Early Childhood Mental Health
747-52nd Street
Oakland, CA. 94609
mheffron@mail.cho.org
Behavioral Pediatrics Clinic (Child Development Center)
Karla Sagramoso, PhD
Child Development Center
747-52nd Street
Oakland, CA. 94609
ksagromoso@mail,cho.org
Department of Psychiatry
Judith Libow, PhD
Dept. of Psychiatry
747-52nd Street
Oakland, CA. 94609
jlibow@mail.cho.org
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