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Full time posted on:
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70986

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Psychiatry General

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Albany Medical College – Department of Psychiatry is accepting applications for post-doctoral fellow positions in clinical psychology. Tracks include college mental health, eating disorders, and inpatient and outpatient psychotherapy and testing. Fellows are given the opportunity to assume multiple roles within an academic psychiatry department including supervision of psychology practicum and interns, research, and leadership and development of psychotherapy groups. The fellowship program is designed to prepare fellows to function as capable professional psychologists.

Effort is made to customize tracks to the knowledge and training needs of each fellow.## Clinical Activities Fellows are expected to maintain an outpatient caseload throughout the training year, conducting psychotherapy and psychological assessment. The Albany Medical Center Physicians Group serves a diverse population presenting from childhood to geriatrics with a range of psychiatric issues including mood and anxiety disorders, trauma, personality disorders, polysubstance dependence, and co-morbid health related issues (e.g., HIV).

Services provided include individual, couple, and family therapy to adults and children, as well as medical students, residents, and other graduate students. Opportunities for group therapy are also available. Fellows may rotate on the inpatient psychiatry service.

This is a part-time assignment totaling approximately eight hours. In this context, fellows work in multidisciplinary teams providing brief therapy, group therapy, psychological assessment and consultation services.

Child and adolescent fellows will have an opportunity to work in our Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) Clinic. The PCIT Clinic treats children with disruptive behaviors and other comorbid diagnoses such as Autism Spectrum Disorder, child maltreatment, anxiety, and/or additional developmental concerns. Specialty training in Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) is available for Fellows interested in becoming PCIT-certified.## Teaching Teaching and mentoring roles may be assigned at various points during the year distributed between fellows based on interest and department scheduling.

Generally, fellows can expect to teach one or two courses during the year. This may include formal seminars, as well as brief practice-based didactics (serving psychiatry, psychology, and medical student trainees). Residency program seminars taught by fellows may include:
* Research Design & Methodology
* Behavioral Theory and Behavior Therapy
* Cognitive-Behavior Therapy
* Human Development
* Psychological Testing Fellows also function as research mentors for advanced psychiatry residents (PGY-2, 3 &
4) as they complete research projects required for residency graduation. Recognizing their junior faculty status, fellows are given an initial faculty appointment as an instructor in the Albany Medical College Department of Psychiatry.## Supervision Fellows may carry a supervision caseload during the training year. This may include long-term individual supervision, assessment supervision, and/or group supervision, with trainees in psychiatry, psychology, and mental health counseling, or social work staff.

Fellows may work with one or two trainees in a supervisory capacity during the year and will receive administrative supervision/oversight from the director of training.

Post-doctoral fellows are provided a minimum of three hours of supervision per week, one of which is in the form of individual supervision. Additional supervision may be scheduled as needed for specific tasks (e.g., psychological assessment, teaching, etc.). Likewise, opportunities exist for group supervision (Fellows may participate in faculty peer supervision meetings). Fellows are responsible for tracking and reviewing clinical and supervisory hours.##

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