2024-2025 Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Clinical Child Psychology - Nationwide Children's Hospital
20 Oct 2023
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Clinical Child Psychology
Nationwide Children's Hospital
Applications for the 2024-2025 NCH Clinical Child fellowship are due by Friday, December 15, 2023. Virtual interviews for selected candidates will take place in January 2024. Fellowship start date is Monday, June 24, 2024, though this can be adjusted to accommodate completion of an applicant’s pre-doctoral internship. Applicants for the Clinical Child fellowship must be on track to complete all requirements of an APA-approved doctoral program in clinical, school, or counseling psychology and a one-year clinical APA-accredited internship, the bulk of which must be focused on children and adolescents.
Each applicant is required to submit a current CV, three letters of recommendation (one must be from an internship supervisor), a copy of the APPI form the applicant used for internship, and a cover letter that describes relevant training and career goals (max. 2 pages).
The salary for 2024-2025 Clinical Child fellows will be $61,742, and fellows are eligible for a full benefits package (medical/dental/vision). In addition, Clinical Child fellows receive 15 days of paid vacation; 6 additional paid holidays; up to 6 days of paid sick time; up to 5 days of paid leave for professional development activities (e.g., licensure exams, job interviews, conference attendance); up to $1500 in professional development funds (e.g., for licensure, conference attendance); and up to $3000 reimbursement in moving expenses, if relocating from out of state.
The goal of Nationwide Children's Hospital's (NCH) Clinical Child fellowship in psychology is to provide fellows with the best available generalist training, to develop and achieve mastery of the knowledge and skills needed to become successful, versatile, independently-licensed psychologists. The broad-based training foundation provided via the Clinical Child fellowship should prepare trainees either for future careers as generalist child and adolescent psychologists or for future specialization. We aim to provide this knowledge through didactics, supervision, and diverse clinical experiences in a community mental health center setting.
Clinical Child fellows devote approximately 50 percent of their client contact hours to the role of primary clinician for long- and short-term individual therapy cases with children and adolescents, as well as cases requiring parent behavior management training. Fellow caseloads will include a range of internalizing and externalizing psychological disorders that occur in children and families across all age ranges. Fellows will also have the opportunity to co-facilitate an evidence-based group treatment (The Incredible Years). In addition, fellows will have the opportunity to observe an additional evidence-based group treatment (based on Barkley's Defiant Children protocol).
Clinical Child fellows devote the remaining 50 percent of their client contact hours to psychological assessment. Typical referral questions include learning disorders, ADHD, and diagnostic clarification regarding other behavioral and emotional difficulties. Evaluations involve evidence-based assessment strategies and typically center on objective testing of cognitive, academic, and emotional/behavioral functioning.
At NCH, Everyone Matters. We know it takes a diverse and collaborative culture and workforce to deliver on our promise to provide the very best, innovative care. As a result, diversity and inclusion is strategically linked to the hospital's overall success and requires true partnership and participation from all. Learn more about NCH's commitment to diversity and inclusion at https://www.nationwidechildrens.org/about-us/everyone-matters---diversity--inclusion
The Clinical Child fellowship program is administratively housed in NCH's Big Lots Behavioral Health Services, a multidisciplinary service line responsible for all mental/behavioral health services at NCH. Big Lots Behavioral Health services is the third largest department in NCH, providing over 229,000 outpatient visits to over 33,000 unique patients in 2018 alone. In 2020, NCH opened the Big Lots Behavioral Health Pavilion, the largest behavioral health treatment and research center on a pediatric medical campus in the United States. NCH is also pleased to announce the launch of a new Institute for Mental and Behavioral Health Research, and its inaugural director, Eric Youngstrom, PhD. The Institute for Mental and Behavioral Health Research will be located in the Big Lots Behavioral Health Pavilion, with a mission to conduct innovative translational, clinical and epidemiological research focused on the causes, prevention, and treatment of mental, emotional and behavioral disorders in children and teens. It is one more example of NCH’s strategic goal of integrating clinical care and research.
Named to the Top 10 Honor Roll for the last ten years on U.S. News and World Report's list of "Best Children's Hospitals", NCH is one of America's largest not-for-profit, freestanding pediatric health care systems, providing wellness, preventative, diagnostic, treatment, and rehabilitative care for infants, children, and adolescents, as well as adult patients with congenital disease.
Please see our website (link below) for additional information regarding the fellowship and application process.
Please email Ben Fields, PhD, MEd with any questions and with all application materials.
Nebraska Internship Consortium in Professional Psychology