Neurodevelopmental Disabilities Clinical and Research Fellowship

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.

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 of 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

To prepare fellows to pursue careers as clinician-researchers in academic health centers by providing them with the requisite skills to become independent researchers and outstanding clinicians, as well as inspiring teachers and contributors to the profession of psychology focused on pediatric populations.

To provide fellows with the training and mentorship required to launch an independent research career in developmental/neurodevelopmental disabilities.

To provide fellows with advanced practice competency in assessment and service provision for youth with neurodevelopmental disorders, including attention deficits, autism spectrum disorder, learning disabilities, intellectual disability, and regulatory problems, sometimes within the context of complex medical and/ or psychosocial histories. Emphasis is placed on integrating the tenets of clinical psychology, developmental psychopathology, cognitive neuroscience, evidence-based interventions, and principles of child and family developmental.

The Neurodevelopmental Disorders Combined Clinical/Research Psychology Fellowship is offered for two years with the possibility of a third year, depending on availability of funding, progress on mentored research projects and general progress in the program. The clinical-research fellow may apply for independent funding and is expected to participate in their mentor’s lab or research group during the first year to learn necessary skills for their own project.

The optional third year of fellowship can continue to have a mix of clinical training and mentored independent research. During the first two years of fellowship, the clinical-research fellow will accrue supervised clinical hours that can be applied toward the pursuit of licensure. Throughout fellowship, the fellow will also be encouraged to build their publication and presentation portfolio. In addition to direct mentorship and clinical supervision, the…