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) 355-0512 |
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 an outpatient clinical child psychologists. The rotation provides experiences in outpatient medical specialty clinics such as autism/developmental assessment, interdisciplinary evaluation of feeding, sleep, 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 and group therapy with children, as well as parent guidance, psychoeducation, and behavior management training. Interns maintain an active case load with a variety of psychological disorders that occur in children and families. Interns receive specific didactic and supervisory experiences in evidence-based group therapies and have the opportunity to assist in implementing these interventions during their training year.
Psychological Assessment
Assessment is an integral component of training in the Clinical Child Track. Interns are expected to spend 50% of their client contact hours per week providing assessment services. Referral questions include school placement, learning disability, and behavioral and emotional difficulties. Evaluations involve evidence based assessment strategies and typically center on objective testing of cognitive, academic, and behavioral functioning. Evaluations may also include personality testing. Clinical Child Interns also complete focused Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) assessments.
Interns complete a minimum of 27 separate assessments during the internship year. These assessments should include at least 18 batteries with the cognitive/intellectual component and at least 6 batteries with the 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 focused ADHD evaluations during the internship year.
Research
Due to the clinical focus of the internship, research experiences are often difficult to secure and complete during the training year. This is especially true if the interns’ dissertation has not been defended.
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.
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 and group therapy with children, as well as parent guidance, psychoeducation, and behavior management training. Interns maintain an active case load with a variety of psychological disorders that occur in children and families. Interns receive specific didactic and supervisory experiences in evidence-based group therapies and have the opportunity to assist in implementing these interventions during their training year.
Psychological Assessment
Assessment is an integral component of training in the Clinical Child Track. Interns are expected to spend 50% of their client contact hours per week providing assessment services. Referral questions include school placement, learning disability, and behavioral and emotional difficulties. Evaluations involve evidence based assessment strategies and typically center on objective testing of cognitive, academic, and behavioral functioning. Evaluations may also include personality testing. Clinical Child Interns also complete focused Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) assessments.
Interns complete a minimum of 27 separate assessments during the internship year. These assessments should include at least 18 batteries with the cognitive/intellectual component and at least 6 batteries with the 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 focused ADHD evaluations during the internship year.
Research
Due to the clinical focus of the internship, research experiences are often difficult to secure and complete during the training year. This is especially true if the interns’ dissertation has not been defended.
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.
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Clinical Child Supervisors
- Jarrod Leffler, Ph.D., ABPP
- Barbara Mackinaw-Koons, Ph.D.
- Bernard Metz, Psy.D.
- Jack Stevens, Ph.D.
- Kelly Wesolowski, Psy.D.
- Cami Winkelspecht, Ph.D.
- Lynda Wolfe, Ph.D.
All faculty, which includes 17 pediatric psychologists, take part in each intern’s training to different degrees, including clinical supervision, mentoring, and/or didactic training.
Successful Applicants
Applicants who have been invited to interview for the Clinical Child Track typically have the following:
Applicants who have been invited to interview for the Clinical Child Track typically have the following:
- Direct supervised experience (e.g. live observation, audio or video taping) providing therapy and assessment services to school-age children, adolescents, and families.
- They have administered, scored and interpreted intellectual, achievement and behavioral/emotional assessment measures.
- Experience integrating these interpretations into a minimum of eight comprehensive psychological reports.
- Familiarity with tenets of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) interventions and evidence-based treatments for school-age children, adolescents, and their families.
- It is also beneficial if they have experience implementing these interventions with no less than five school-age clients.
- Applicants should have knowledge of and experiences in developing and implementing treatment plans.
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