Universal Psychology Postdoctoral Directory Entry

Washington DC VA Medical Center Psychology Postdoctoral Fellowship Trauma Emphasis

Washington DC VA Medical Center
Washington, WashingtonDC

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

This is one of three emphasis areas offered within our APA accredited postdoctoral training program in Clinical Psychology. Our program follows the practitioner scholar model and is organized into three emphasis areas: Health, Serious Mental Illness and Trauma. Fellows apply for and are selected to one emphasis area. Our program mission is to support psychology fellows in developing their individual identities as psychologists, while ensuring that they posses the skills and advanced competencies to deliver patient centered, evidence based psychological services that are attentive to individual and cultural diversity in all aspects of assessment, treatment planning and intervention.

The Washington DC VAMC Psychology Fellowship Trauma Emphasis trains fellows to accurately diagnose PTSD and related conditions, to create a comprehensive treatment plan, to provide effective individual and group treatment and to be aware of and implement current PTSD research. Two fellows are selected annually to join the Trauma Services Program (TSP).

We teach fellows a broad theoretical perspective on trauma and PTSD, including the history of the PTSD diagnosis, PTSD epidemiology, the psychobiology of PTSD and the relationship between PTSD and health as well as the social-political-legal issues in PTSD for Veterans and non-Veterans. We encourage fellows to extend the theoretical perspectives they learned in graduate school and on their pre-doctoral internship, while applying evidence based methods that are most appropriate for each patient.

For additional details of our training program, please visit our website and review the Postdoc Brochure.

https://https://www.va.gov/washington-dc-health-care/work-with-us/internships-and-fellowships/psychology-training-programs/

Additional Information

Agency Type: VA Medical Center
APPIC Membership: Yes
APA Accredited: Yes
Emphasis or focus area: PTSD (Trauma)
Research Time: Less than 25%
Training Director: Candace Tomes, PsyD
Contact Email: candace.tomes@va.gov
Contact Phone: 202-745-8000 x54184
Duration in Months: 12
Hours Per Week: 40
# of Licensed Supervisors: 12
Number of Positions: 2
Applications recieved last year: 14
Accepts Int'l Students
Stipend: $59889
Will follow APPIC Selection Standards
Created Date: Monday, November 14 2016
Unfilled Positions: 0
Fringe Benefits: Paid annual and sick leave, paid federal holidays, health insurance, dental/vision insurance, VA Transit subsidy
Research opportunities: 20 percent time for research and program evaluation
Application Instructions: Applications are due December 6th. Interviews will not be held prior to January 1st and will be conducted virtually in early January. It is anticipated that offers will be extended by mid-January.

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