Clinical Child Track
APPIC Program Match Number 150913
| Track Coordinator: | Jarrod Leffler, Ph.D., A.B.P.P. Email: Jarrod.Leffler@NationwideChildrens.org Phone: (614) 355-8160 |
Clinical Child Track interns participate in a wide range of clinical activities in an interdisciplinary outpatient community mental health center setting. Interns have frequent opportunities to consult with other professionals and respond to frequent requests for case-centered consultation with social workers, clinical counselors, psychiatrists, educators, and primary care pediatricians.
The internship is structured around a primary placement. Interns spend four-and-a-half days per week at their primary site (Close to Home Center) and a half-day per week at a pediatric clinic (pediatric psychology rotation). The pediatric psychology rotation is designed to enhance interns’ efficacy as outpatient clinical child psychologists. The rotation provides experiences in outpatient medical specialty clinics such as autism/developmental assessment, sleep disorders, gastroenterology, hematology/oncology, and headache.
Outpatient Therapy
Interns are expected to spend 50% of their client contact hours per week providing outpatient therapy. Interns have the opportunity for long- or short-term individual therapy with children, group therapy, parent guidance, therapy with individual parents, family therapy, or school consultation. Interns maintain an active caseload with a variety of psychological disorders in children and families. Interns have the opportunity to consult with local schools and may develop in-class programs or in-school therapy groups for children with learning and emotional problems.
Psychological Assessment
Assessment is an integral component of training in the Clinical Child Track. Referral questions include school placement, learning disability, and behavioral and emotional difficulties. Evaluations typically center on objective testing of cognitive, academic, and behavioral functioning, and may also include personality testing. Clinical Child Interns also participate in the center’s comprehensive Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) program, conducting evaluations and implementing treatment plans.
Interns complete a minimum of 27 separate assessments during the internship year. These assessments should include at least 18 batteries with a cognitive/intellectual component and at least 6 batteries with a personality/emotional component. The 27 assessments include at least one child from each of the following age ranges: preschool, school-age, and adolescent. In addition, interns complete at least 20 brief ADHD evaluations during the internship year.
Hours
Clinical Child interns work five days per week, and are expected to see clients two evenings during the week. There is no “on call” coverage and interns typically work 40-50 hours per week.
| Clinical Child Track Sample Weekly Schedule |
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