Outpatient Psychological Treatment
The fellow will be expected to provide psychotherapy services to children and adolescents with a wide range of emotional and behavioral disorders.
Treatment activities will focus on family, systemic, behavioral, and cognitive-behavioral interventions for youth and their families presenting with a diverse set of clinical issues, such as ADHD, depression, anxiety, social-pragmatic communication disorders and neurodevelopmental disorders.
Patients are typically seen from the inpatient psychiatric unit, as well and have severe mental, behavioral, and emotional disorders that cause serious functional impairment that interferes with or limits one or more major life activities.
Disorders seen include mood, anxiety, behavioral, and psychotic disorders (i.e., bipolar, major depression, generalized anxiety, posttraumatic stress, ADHD, ODD, and schizoaffective).
Participation in psychoeducational groups for anxiety, social skills training, attention/ concentration, and parenting is also expected.
Outpatient Psychological Assessment
The fellow will be expected to provide assessment services to children and adolescents presenting with various neurodevelopmental and mood disorders.
Assessment services include developmental assessments (for children ages 2-5), psychoeducational assessments, and psychological / personality assessments. Assessment duties will include the use of a range of assessment tools including intellectual and educational measures, objective measures, self-report measures, and at times projective inventories, with most evaluations including assessment of the child’s developmental level as well as cognitive, behavioral, social and emotional functioning.
Fellows are involved in all aspects of testing, including intakes, administration, report writing, feedback sessions, as well as consultations with other professionals (e.g., psychiatry, speech pathologists, school staff, neurologists).