Psychology Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Autism
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Indiana University School of Medicine, Riley Hospital for Children
Indianapolis, Indiana
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This training experience is not an APPIC Member program and is not APA Accredited. Applicants should be aware that this training experience has not undergone a formal external quality review process.
Elements of quality clinically focused postdoctoral training
This training experience is a planned and programmed sequence of training that aims to ensure preparation for advanced practice rather than one that is focused on providing supervised hours for licensure.
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This training experience ensures that training takes precedence over service delivery regarding the nature, content, volume, and quality of the postdoc’s activities.
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This training experience ensures that postdocs receive at least two hours of individual supervision per week for the duration of the experience.
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This training experience is administered by a doctoral-level licensed psychologist who directs and organizes the training experience and its resources, is responsible for the selection of postdocs, and monitors and evaluates the goals and activities of the experience.
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This training experience has two or more doctoral-level licensed psychologists who have sufficient time to provide quality supervision and training.
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This training experience includes regularly scheduled structured educational activities that help postdocs its defined goals. These activities may include didactics, seminars, case conferences, and/or research activities.
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This training experience has written Due Process and Grievance procedures.
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This training experience has the stable and necessary financial (e.g., stipend) and physical resources (e.g., computers, physical space) needed for effective training.
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Who We Are: The Autism Outpatient Clinic is located within Riley Hospital for Children, which has been serving Indiana's children for nearly 100 years. Riley Hospital is one of the largest children's hospitals in the United States and ranked nationally as one of the top children's hospitals in the country. Our clinic serves individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and other neurodevelopmental disabilities of all abilities and developmental levels. The Autism Outpatient Clinic is a diagnostic and treatment clinic serving families from around the state of Indiana and bordering states (Illinois, Kentucky, Ohio).
Who We Serve: Our clinic serves individuals from toddlerhood through early adulthood. Our primary presenting concerns are: · Language delay · Aggression · Tantrums · Self-injury · Social skill deficits · Oppositional behavior · Anxiety · Depression · Adaptive skills deficits (i.e., toileting)
Our patients often have complicated presentations: · Genetic syndromes (e.g., Fragile X, Down’s Syndrome, Angelman’s Syndrome) · Medical complications (e.g., feeding disorders, childhood cancer, seizure disorders, mitochondrial disorders) · Differential diagnoses (e.g., ADHD, disruptive behavior, anxiety, intellectual disability)
Services We Provide: The Autism Outpatient Clinic provides families with comprehensive evaluations and ongoing clinical care for interfering behavior problems and skill deficits. We receive referrals from across the state for our complex diagnostic decision making and behavioral and medical treatment expertise. Services we provide include:
Diagnostic Evaluation – determine appropriate diagnoses and assess for ASD. Evaluation includes a semi-structured caregiver interview and child observation. Feedback, diagnosis and treatment recommendations are provided and family is connected to local supports and resources.
Comprehensive Evaluation – when additional information is needed, formal testing completed to assess ASD, ID, and other diagnoses. Includes ADOS, behavior rating scales, cognitive assessments, and assessment of adaptive skills.
Parent Management Training – address behavior problems and skill deficits through Applied Behavior Analysis-based parent training. This include antecedent interventions (e.g., visual supports, schedule changes), function-based consequences (e.g., planned ignoring, differential attention, positive reinforcement) and teaching replacement skills (e.g., functional communication, coping skills)
Individual Cognitive Behavioral Therapy – address co-morbid diagnoses (e.g., anxiety, depression) in higher functioning individuals with ASD. Basic CBT is modified to meet the individual’s needs, drawing from a number of interventions such as Facing our Fears and ZONES of Regulation.
Medication Management – psychiatrists and psychiatry residents manage behavior problems through psychotropic medications
Post-Doctoral Fellow Responsibilities
Behavioral Therapy Services: · Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) focused interventions · Lead parent training · Conduct individual therapy using modified Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques · Treatment planning focused on antecedent, behavior, and consequence
Assessment Services: · Conduct diagnostic interviews & observations · Consider differential diagnoses (e.g., ADHD, disruptive behaviors, Intellectual Disability) · Complete comprehensive evaluations when appropriate (e.g., IQ testing, adaptive skills, structured interviews) · ADOS-2 evaluations
Additional Opportunities
Clinical Development: · ADOS-2 Clinical Workshop · Crisis Prevention Intervention Training · Training and supervision to achieve clinical reliability on ADOS-2 · Case presentations · Experience with telehealth provision of psychological services · Supervision of predoctoral psychology interns
Scholarly Development: · Case studies, chart reviews, etc. · Journal reviews, book chapters, manuscript preparation opportunities · Poster presentations at regional and national conferences · Monthly Journal Club with all psychology fellows
Additional Information
- Agency Type
- Childrens Hospital
- APPIC Membership
- No
- APA Accredited
- No
- Recognized Specialty
- Clinical Child Psychology
- Emphasis or focus area
- Child/Adolescent
- Other Emphasis
- Assessment and Treatment of Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Research Time
- Less than 25%
- Training Director
- Noha Minshawi, Ph.D., HSPP
- Contact Email
- nminshaw@iupui.edu
- Contact Phone
- 317-944-8162
- Duration in Months
- 12
- Hours Per Week
- 40
- # of Licensed Supervisors
- 1
- Number of Positions
- 2
- Applications recieved last year
- 4
- Accepts Int'l Students
- Stipend
- $56,484
- Will follow APPIC Selection Standards
- Fringe Benefits
- Fellows receive full medical and dental benefits through the Indiana University School of Medicine's Graduate Medical Education Office (no premiums). Parking is paid in full by the program. In addition, fellows receive $700 in Continuing Education funds and up to $1500 for presentation of data from fellowship at a conference (subject to COVID travel policies).
- Research opportunities
- There are opportunities for contributions to book chapters, manuscripts, case studies, and other research endeavors outside of clinical responsibilities.
- Additional Comments
- Application Materials:
• Curriculum Vitae
• Three letters of reference, including one from your graduate director of clinical training
• Graduate Transcripts
• Cover Letter
- Application Instructions
- Application Materials:
• Curriculum Vitae
• Three letters of reference, including one from your graduate director of clinical training
• Graduate Transcripts
• Cover Letter
Applications should be sent to:
Noha Minshawi, Ph.D., HSPP
c/o TraNeka Pippens,
Neuroscience Center, Goodman Hall
355 West 16th Street, Suite 2800
Indianapolis, IN 46202
or trpippen@iu.edu
Application deadline is December 15, 2023
This record was last updated on Wednesday, November 1, 2023
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