Minnesota Forensic Services Forensic Psychology Postdoctoral Fellowship
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Minnesota Department of Human Services - Direct Care and Treatment - Forensic Services
St. Peter, Minnesota
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
The fellowship at Forensic Services focuses on forensic evaluations, including competency to proceed, criminal responsibility, indeterminate civil commitment, risk assessment, and repeat sex offender. Fellows typically gain in vivo experience providing expert testimony. Evaluations occur at the St. Peter Treatment Center and at jails, courthouses, prisons, and treatment facilities across the state. With ongoing pandemic events, a larger portion of evaluations have also been completed on televideo platforms. Forensic Services has a robust training program, including a year-long didactic series, training in both ABPP recommended landmark cases and Minnesota specific caselaw, mock trial exercise, and fellow-led case conference and presentations. Major rotations are typically focused on adult evaluations, though there is an elective juvenile forensic evaluation minor offered for interested fellows. We additionally qualify for the ABFP experience waiver until 2028. The program has an established relationship with the University of Minnesota forensic psychiatry fellowship, including a series of weekly trainings at the University that occur jointly with forensic psychiatry fellows and a practicing judge well-versed in mental health case law. At times, there is also opportunity for peer-reviewed publication in the Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (JAAPL).
Additional Information
- Agency Type
- State Hospital
- APPIC Membership
- No
- APA Accredited
- No
- Recognized Specialty
- Forensic Psychology
- Emphasis or focus area
- Assessment
- Research Time
- Less than 25%
- Training Director
- Jacob Chavez, Psy.D., ABPP (forensic)
- Contact Email
- Jacob.Chavez@state.mn.us
- Contact Phone
- 507-340-9357
- Duration in Months
- 12
- Hours Per Week
- 40
- # of Licensed Supervisors
- 22
- Number of Positions
- 2
- Applications recieved last year
- 26
- Accepts Int'l Students
- Stipend
- $105,000
- Will follow APPIC Selection Standards
- Created Date
- Wednesday, October 25 2017
- Unfilled Positions
- 2
- Fringe Benefits
- Health, dental, disability, and life insurance; four vacation hours and four sick leave hours accrued each two-week pay period; ten paid holidays and one floating holiday per fiscal year; retirement benefits; and liability coverage for onsite professional activities. Fellows have typically received a training fund, pending availability of budgetary funds.
- Research opportunities
- Forensic Services has established a research committee to develop a research database, which fellows are encouraged to participate in. Additionally, Forensic Services encourages fellows to pursue their own research interests and provides mentorship in the form of staff who are versed in conducting and publishing research, as well as a legal digest seminar conducted jointly with the University of Minnesota's forensic psychiatry fellowship.
- Additional Comments
- Program offer and start dates are estimates. Offer dates depend on many factors with decisions communicated to applicants as soon as possible. The official start date will be established by Human Resources following the selection process. Traditionally the program has started in early to middle September.
- Application Instructions
- Please see brochure for instructions. This program will be participating with other forensic psychology fellowships in a common hold date (CHD) for applicants who are offered positions for the 2025-2026 fellowship year.
If the brochure link does not work this is due to APPIC at time listing the link using an http:// while the State of MN uses https://. The following link should work: https://mn.gov/dhs/assets/forensic-psychology-postdoctoral-fellowship-brochure_tcm1053-593080.pdf
This record was last updated on Monday, October 28, 2024
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