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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