UChicago Medicine Trauma Program
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The University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois
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 Departments of Pediatrics and Psychiatry & Behavioral Neuroscience at The University of Chicago Medicine (UCM) is offering a 1-year postdoctoral fellowship in Trauma Psychology for two fellows. The training experience will involve assessment and treatment of trauma across the lifespan with particular focus on children, adolescents, emerging adults, and family members of those impacted by trauma. The postdoctoral fellows should have a strong skillset in child/adolescent/family trauma to meet the clinical demands of this position and aspire to building a career in trauma psychology. The successful candidates will spend a portion of their time providing trauma-informed interdisciplinary assessments, and trauma-informed or evidence-based treatments. The candidates must demonstrate interest in and commitment to serving urban African American or ethnic minority populations living in low resourced communities. The candidates must also engage in scholarship and research activities, which include using an existing data set, or supporting the development of existing projects, and development of a new project by the fellows. The fellows will be key personnel for the Block, Hassenfeld, Casdin (BHC) Collaborative for Family Resilience to help youth and their families’ recovery from immediate and long-lasting effects caused by trauma and violence and will work in collaboration with program partners, including Healing Hurt People-Chicago, the UCM Violence Recovery Program, the Comer Hospital Pediatric Medical Mobile Unit, U-STAR, the REACT Program, and Project FIRE. The responsibilities for the fellows are: provide direct trauma-focused assessment, and psychotherapy; collaborate with psychiatrists to help address the psychiatric needs for children and families affected by violence and trauma; provide trauma-focused outreach, support, and psychoeducation services in the hospital and in community settings; participate in National Child Traumatic Stress Network collaborative activities, including travel to NCTSN meetings and professional conferences; participate in U-STAR, REACT and Healing Hurt People trauma programming – e.g., case conferences, and staffings. The exact nature of the research will be individually determined based on skills and future career goals. Opportunities are available to develop teaching/training skills by participating in provision of supervision to psychology externs and working on program development and evaluation. The fellow may attend didactics with other psychology and psychiatry trainees within the department as well as in other departments/sections of the institution. These experiences will meet the criteria for license eligibility in Illinois. The development of clinical, educational, and research skills in a multidisciplinary environment will prepare the fellows for a career in an academic medical center with an emphasis in trauma psychology. Please note that your university-based graduate program in health service psychology and your doctoral psychology internship must be accredited by the American Psychological Association. Please review our website for more information: https://psychiatry.uchicago.edu/clinical-psychology-fellowship-program.
Additional Information
- Agency Type
- Medical School/Health Science Center
- APPIC Membership
- No
- APA Accredited
- No
- Recognized Specialty
- Clinical Child Psychology
- Emphasis or focus area
- PTSD (Trauma)
- Research Time
- Less than 25%
- Training Director
- Shona Vas, Ph.D., ABPP (Sonya Dinizulu, Ph.D. & Brad Stolbach, Ph.D.; Fellowship Directors)
- Contact Email
- svas@bsd.uchicago.edu
- Contact Phone
- 7737021517
- Duration in Months
- 12
- Hours Per Week
- 40
- # of Licensed Supervisors
- 15
- Number of Positions
- 2
- Applications recieved last year
- 16
- Accepts Int'l Students
- Stipend
- $61008
- Will follow APPIC Selection Standards
- Created Date
- Wednesday, October 23 2019
- Fringe Benefits
- Subsidized health, dental, and vision insurance, 15 vacation days, 5 professional days, 10 sick/wellness days
- Research opportunities
- Depending on the candidate's interests, various opportunities are available.
- Application Instructions
- Application: Our program requires a CV, cover letter, and transcript submitted through APPA CAS.
References: We require three letters of recommendation. If you are on internship and your internship Training Director (TD) is not one of your letter writers, we require a separate letter from your Internship Training Director (TD) indicating that you are on track to complete the internship program. If your TD is one of your existing references, this issue may be addressed in the recommendation letter.
We will be using the APPA CAS portal for application submission and review.
Applications are due by December 15, 2023 (11:59 EST) and should be uploaded to APPA CAS. Materials should be addressed to:
Sonya Dinizulu, Ph.D. (sdinizulu@bsd.uchicago.edu)
Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience
AND
Brad Stolbach, Ph.D. (bstolbach@bsd.uchicago.edu)
Associate Professor, Pediatrics and Psychiatry & Behavioral Neuroscience
The University of Chicago
5841 S. Maryland Avenue, MC 3077
Chicago, IL 60637
You will be contacted by email if you are selected for a virtual interview. Interviews will occur on Monday January 6 and Friday January 17, 2025. We intend to follow the APPIC Selection Standards. Applications for positions that remain open after the Common Hold Date (2/24/25) will be reviewed on a rolling basis until filled.
This record was last updated on Tuesday, October 22, 2024
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