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Mount Sinai Harlem Health Center Child Psychology Postdoctoral Fellowship: Parent Infant Center

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Mount Sinai Harlem Health Center
New York, New York

Applications due Friday, January 31, 2025

This training experience will NOT follow the APPIC Selection Standards with Common Hold Date (CHD) and may not allow applicants to hold offers until the CHD. Applicants may need to respond to an offer for this position prior to completing interviews or knowing their standing with other positions.

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. Yes

This training experience ensures that training takes precedence over service delivery regarding the nature, content, volume, and quality of the postdoc’s activities. Yes

This training experience ensures that postdocs receive at least two hours of individual supervision per week for the duration oof the experience. Yes

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. Yes

This training experience has two or more doctoral-level licensed psychologists who have sufficient time to provide quality supervision and training.   Yes

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. Yes

This training experience has written Due Process and Grievance procedures. Yes

This training experience has the stable and necessary financial (e.g., stipend) and physical resources (e.g., computers, physical space) needed for effective training. Yes

Mt. Sinai Harlem Health Center Post-Doctoral Psychology Parent-Infant Center Fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychology at the Child and Family Institute 2025-2026 Name of Program: Parent-Infant Center Fellowship Director: Wendie Klapper, Ph.D. Program Description: The Parent-Infant Center is a prevention and treatment program that provides psychotherapeutic services to pregnant women and caregivers and their young children (ages 0-5). The primary goal of the Parent-Infant Center is to facilitate the development of healthy attachments between caregivers and their infants/toddlers/preschoolers and promote healthy child and parent development. Fellowship Description: The Fellowship in our Parent-Infant Center provides the opportunity for one full-time trainee to spend their time focusing on assessment and intervention strategies related to work with at-risk caregivers and their young children. The Fellow will be under the supervision of a team of specialists in early childhood development and evidence-based Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) for children and families exposed to trauma. The Fellow will conduct intakes, developmental screenings/assessments, dyadic psychotherapy and individual psychotherapy with caregivers and pregnant women. The Fellow will receive two hours of individual and two hours of group supervision weekly.  The Fellow will also participate in intensive courses in Infant Mental Health and Child-Parent Psychotherapy.  The Fellow will provide one hour of weekly supervision to a Parent-Infant Center extern. The Fellowship start date will likely be September 2025, but may vary based on date of degree conferral. Please email all applications to Dr. Wendie Klapper at wendie.klapper@mountsinai.org and Dr. Jennifer Herring at Jennifer.Herring@mountsinai.org Qualifications: Fellows must have completed their dissertation defense in an APA-accredited Ph.D. or Psy.D. program in clinical or counseling psychology or combined clinical-school psychology and completed their APA-Accredited psychology internship.

Additional Information

Agency Type
Private/General Hospital
APPIC Membership
No
APA Accredited
No
Recognized Specialty
Clinical Child Psychology
Emphasis or focus area
Child/Adolescent
Other Emphasis
child-parent psychotherapy, infant mental health, perinatal mood and anxiety disorders
Research Time
No research time
Training Director
Leora Heckelman, PhD
Contact Email
leora.heckelman@mountsinai.org
Contact Phone
212-586-5268
Virtual Interviews
Virtual Only
Duration in Months
12
Hours Per Week
40
# of Licensed Supervisors
4
Number of Positions
1
Applications recieved last year
6
Stipend
$61,419
Will follow APPIC Selection Standards
No
Estimated offer date
Friday, January 31 2025
Created Date
Wednesday, December 21 2016
Unfilled Positions
0
Fringe Benefits
full health benefits
Research opportunities
N/A
Application Instructions
Instructions for Applying: In order to be considered for a position applicants are required to defend their dissertations by June 30, 2023. Please include the following materials in with your application: 1) One copy of your CV 2) Official transcript(s) of doctoral-level work 3) Two letters of reference (one academic/research, one clinical) 4) One copy of a personal statement illustrating your ideas about how the fellowship you are applying for will help you reach specific professional goals.

This record was last updated on Wednesday, November 6, 2024

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