VA Connecticut Healthcare System - Clinical Psychology with an Emphasis in Psychosocial Rehabilitation and LGBT Healthcare
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VA Connecticut Healthcare System
West Haven, Connecticut
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
We are recruiting for a psychology fellowship with a dual emphasis on LGBTQ+ Healthcare and Psychosocial Rehabilitation at the VA Connecticut Healthcare System in West Haven, CT. This dual emphasis fellowship within Psychosocial Rehabilitation (PSR) and LGBTQ+ healthcare is based at the Errera Community Care Center (Orange Annex). The fellowship follows the scientist-practitioner model and is designed to provide advanced training in psychosocial rehabilitation, with a focus on psychosis and other serious mental illness, and LGBTQ+ healthcare over a year-long (full-time) commitment. There are opportunities for clinical, research, and advocacy experiences. Additional clinical experiences may also occur on the main VACHS campus and the Community Resource and Referral Center (CRRC), and through virtual modalities. It is expected that the fellow will provide individual counseling, group therapy, and consultation services for LGBTQ+ Veterans within the VACHS. Residents will develop individualized educationally-focused projects with close mentoring from faculty on topics of their interest. Opportunities exist for participating in ongoing collaborative research and scholarly writing. Further, Residents will work with the LGBTQ+ Veteran Care Coordinator to learn about LGBTQ-focused advocacy and have opportunities to collaborate with the VCC in advocacy, education, and outreach. Residents receive Yale appointments. Successful applicants should have a strong interest in the treatment of LGBTQ+ Veterans and community mental health/psychosocial rehabilitation. Individuals interested in specialized clinical training in gender-affirming care and working with the transgender/gender-diverse community are particularly encouraged to apply. Salary for doctoral-level psychology residents is $60,446 (this amount may be adjusted annually). Federal benefits provided.
Completion of degree is required by the start of the residency – September 2nd, 2025. Additional information about the fellowship, along with information on eligibility, application process, and program contacts can be accessed via our online brochure at: https://www.va.gov/files/2023-11/2024-25%20Psychology%20Residency%20PSR%20West%20Haven%20Brochure%20-%20LGBT%20Track.pdf
Additional Information
- Agency Type
- VA Medical Center
- APPIC Membership
- Yes
- APA Accredited
- Yes
- Recognized Specialty
- Clinical Psychology
- Emphasis or focus area
- Serious Mental Illness
- Other Emphasis
- LGBT healthcare
- Research Time
- Less than 25%
- Training Director
- Joshua Bullock, Ph.D.
- Contact Email
- joshua.bullock@va.gov
- Contact Phone
- 203-516-8013
- Duration in Months
- 12
- Hours Per Week
- 40
- # of Licensed Supervisors
- 23
- Number of Positions
- 1
- Applications recieved last year
- 3
- Accepts Int'l Students
- Stipend
- $60446
- Will follow APPIC Selection Standards
- Unfilled Positions
- 0
- Fringe Benefits
- Fellows receive an affiliation with Yale University School of Medicine
- Research opportunities
- Fellows are able to reserve about 4 hours per week to develop individualized projects with close mentoring from faculty, which can involve research and scholarly writing.
- Application Instructions
- To apply, please send the following: 1. A cover letter detailing: A) your experiences with serious mental illness, recovery-oriented clinical services, and/or community-based clinical work; B) your experiences with LGBT healthcare; and C) how this fellowship will meet your training and career goals. 2. Curricula Vita 3. 3 letters of recommendation. Application materials can be sent in one package or separately. Electronic copies are preferred. For recommendation letters, any of the following will be accepted: a) scanned pdf files of original letters that include signatures, b) emailed letters, if sent directly from the recommender’s work email account.
Application materials should be sent to the attention of: Aliya Webermann (Aliya.Webermann@va.gov) LGBTQ+ Track Coordinator.
This record was last updated on Tuesday, November 12, 2024
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