General Training and Sub-Rotations

All members of the fellowship cohort will develop a caseload of child, adolescent and family therapy patients. Fellows learn to manage cases, with a focus on practicing in a pediatric outpatient clinic. In addition to the primary focus on treatment, all fellows complete a select number of psychological assessments. These are determined in consultation with the program faculty and are based on the trainee’s specific professional development needs and goals.

Fellows are assigned to one of five sub-rotations. In select cases, they may have the opportunity to experience activities in more than one of the rotation areas. The 12-month sub-rotations include: 

• Psychological testing and neurodevelopmental assessment: This fellow will have the opportunity to specialize in the practice of assessment, with emphasis on neurodevelopmental disorders. While all fellows will have the opportunity to engage in limited testing, fellows earmarked for this rotation will do more batteries over the course of the year. They’ll also develop advanced skills in interviewing, providing feedback and identifying autism, intellectual disability, learning disorders and ADHD. This fellow can observe testing psychologists in our program and receive co-assessment or live supervision from their preceptor as needed.
• Psychologist as leader: This fellow will be assigned tasks by our program director. They will shadow and assist our program director in efforts related to clinic expansion, protocol development, fundraising, literature review and policy board meetings within and external to the hospital.
• Psychologist in consultation liaison in pediatrics: This fellow will serve as a consultant and interventionist on the medical inpatient floors of the hospital approximately 1.5 days per week. They will work in tandem with our staff psychologist, who serves as the primary consultant to the medical floors. Duties include clinical assessment, brief treatment, parent consultation, staff consultation, support with adjustment to medical admissions and participation in medical and psychosocial rounds.
• Psychologist in primary care pediatrics and behavioral health: This fellow will serve as a consultant and interventionist one to two days per week in one of the many community primary care pediatric clinics that we support. Duties include brief treatment and referrals, screenings and assessments, parent consultations, warm hand-off visits and co-visits with pediatricians, staff consultations, health education events and special projects.
• Parent consultation emphasis: This fellow will serve as consultant on our parent consultation service. They’ll receive families for single session collaboration appointments focused on plan development, behavioral guidance, triage and strategic intervention. This fellow will have ample opportunity to observe other staff psychologists and to receive live supervision as well.