Clinical Child Psychology
Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Clinical Child Psychology
The goal of Nationwide Children’s Hospital’s Clinical Child Fellowship in psychology is to provide post-doctoral trainees with the best available generalist training, to develop and achieve mastery of the knowledge and skills needed to become successful, versatile, independently-licensed psychologists. The broad-based training foundation provided via the Clinical Child fellowship should prepare trainees either for future careers as generalist child and adolescent psychologists or for future specialization. We aim to provide this knowledge through didactics, supervision, and diverse clinical experiences in a community mental health center setting.
Clinical Child fellows participate in a wide range of clinical activities in our interdisciplinary outpatient Close to Home Centers, including frequent consultation with social workers, clinical counselors, psychiatrists, educators, and primary care pediatricians. Clinical Child fellows are located at various outpatient clinics, including sites in Dublin, East Columbus, and the Behavioral Health Pavilion.
Clinical Child fellows devote approximately 50 percent of their client contact hours to the role of primary clinician for long- and short-term individual therapy cases with children and adolescents, as well as cases requiring parent behavior management training. Fellow caseloads will include a range of internalizing and externalizing psychological disorders that occur in children and families across all age ranges. Fellows will also have the opportunity to co-facilitate an evidence-based group treatment (The Incredible Years). In addition, fellows will have the opportunity to observe an additional evidence-based group treatment based on Barkley's Defiant Children protocol.
Clinical Child fellows devote the remaining 50 percent of their client contact hours to psychological assessment. Typical referral questions include learning disorders, ADHD, and diagnostic clarification regarding other behavioral and emotional difficulties. Evaluations involve evidence-based assessment strategies and typically center on objective testing of cognitive, academic, and emotional/behavioral functioning.
What You Need to Know
Curriculum
The one-year Clinical Child fellowship requires the provision of approximately 19 hours of face-to-face client services per week. Clinical Child fellows work five days per week, including two evenings during the week. There is no "on-call" coverage. Hours worked per week generally range from 40 to 50.
Nationwide Children's Clinical Child fellows have been fully integrated into our telehealth services, which were rapidly developed in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. While the amount of ongoing telehealth practice varies across different areas of Nationwide Children's Behavioral Health, our current Clinical Child fellows are in their offices, full-time, at least four days per week, with the option to work from home on the fifth day of the week. Even when working from their Nationwide Children's offices, Clinical Child fellows still frequently provide telehealth visits, though the option exists to provide in-person services when clinically indicated (e.g., for youth and families unable to effectively engage in telehealth services, or for administration of psychological testing).
Clinical Child fellows consistently identify the amount and quality of supervision received as highlights of their training experiences. Clinical Child fellows receive a minimum of 2 hours of regularly scheduled, face-to-face, individual supervision per week (split between two supervisors), focusing on treatment and assessment cases assigned to the fellow. Clinical Child fellows also participate in a weekly 2-hour clinical consultation and training group. This group supervision (referred to as "vertical team"), brings together psychology trainees at various stages of development (including Clinical Child fellows and pre-doctoral interns from our APA-accredited Clinical Child internship). Time in vertical team is typically split between didactics in relevant specialty areas and clinical case presentations designed to enhance the practical application of content discussed in didactics. Finally, each fellow is assigned a preceptor - independent of the fellow's direct supervisors - who is charged with providing an ongoing, supportive relationship; ensuring the fellow's experiences are consistent with the fellow's goals and objectives; and acting as a mentor regarding professional development issues.
In addition to didactics provided in the context of vertical team, Clinical Child fellows attend a fellowship seminar, held 1-2 times per month, with fellows from Nationwide Children’s Hospital’s other psychology fellowship programs.
Although not a primary focus of the fellowship, Clinical Child fellows will be expected to complete a research project or scholarly activity. This could involve proposal of a quality improvement (QI) project, formal data collection, or program development proposal. Clinical Child fellows will receive training in the QI process. Fellows may have opportunities to participate in outcome research related to current Nationwide Children's programs, though this is not required.
Big Lots Behavioral Health Services
The Clinical Child fellowship program is administratively housed in Big Lots Behavioral Health Services, a multidisciplinary service line responsible for all mental and behavioral health services at Nationwide Children's. Big Lots Behavioral Health Services is the third largest department in the hospital, providing over 229,000 outpatient visits to over 33,000 unique patients in 2018 alone. In 2020, the hospital opened the Big Lots Behavioral Health Pavilion, the largest behavioral health treatment and research center on a pediatric medical campus in the United States.
Named to the Top 10 Honor Roll on U.S. News and World Report's list of "Best Children's Hospitals," Nationwide Children's is one of America's largest not-for-profit, freestanding pediatric health care systems, providing wellness, preventative, diagnostic, treatment, and rehabilitative care for infants, children, and adolescents, as well as adult patients with congenital disease.
Meet Our Faculty
Courtney Cleminshaw-Mahan, PhD
- Clinical Interests:
- Assessment and treatment of ADHD and disruptive behavior disorders
- Social functioning and peer relationships in youth with ADHD
- Assessment of specific learning disorders
- Equity of mental and behavioral health service delivery within systems
- Clinical Interests:
- Assessment and treatment of ADHD
- Assessment of learning disorders
- Parent behavior management training
- Clinical Interests:
- Assessment, treatment, and psychoeducation pertaining to ADHD and disruptive behavior disorders
- Mental health access and treatment in families where grandparents are primary caretakers of grandchildren
- Program evaluation of The Incredible Years parenting group; adaptations of the model for unique prevention, treatment, and culturally sensitive uses
- How the mind-gut relationship may affect mental health presentation and treatment
- Clinical Interests:
- Assessment and treatment of ADHD
- Parent behavior management training
- Anxiety disorders in children and adolescents
- Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
- Clinical Interests:
- Assessment and treatment of mood disorders
- Cognitive behavioral therapy
- Mindfulness
Elizabeth C. Moore, PhD
- Clinical Interests:
- Behavior management for externalizing and internalizing disorders
- ADHD
- Adolescent mood and anxiety disorders
Ijeoma Osigwe, PhD
- Clinical interests
- Disruptive behavior
- anxiety
- parenting
- Clinical Interests:
- ADHD (behavior management for children and adolescents)
- Social impairment associated with ADHD, social anxiety, and depression
- Adolescent depression and anxiety
- Clinical Interests
- ADHD and comorbid externalizing problems
- Child and adolescent anxiety
- Adolescent depression and adjustment difficulties
- Clinical Interests:
- Assessment and treatment of selective mutism
- parental involvement in behavioral therapy for young children with anxiety
- assessment of learning disorders
- support for families navigating school-based academic or behavioral programming
- Clinical Interests
- Behavior management (individual and group) for ADHD
- Individual and group intervention for childhood OCD and other anxiety disorders
- Psychological evaluation
- Clinical Interests:
- OCD
- Anxiety
- ADHD
- Trauma-informed care
- Clinical Interests:
- ADHD
- Disruptive behavior
- Parent training
- Anxiety disorders
- Clinical Interests:
- Assessment and treatment of ADHD
- Behavior management
Salary and Benefits
Our fellows are hospital employees, and as such, they are eligible for the same benefits other full-time staff receive (with the exception of paid time off, which is outlined.) Learn more about fellowship benefits.
Salary for Clinical Child fellows will be $61,742 for the 2024-2025 training year. In addition, fellows receive:
- 15 days of paid vacation
- 6 additional paid holidays
- Up to 6 days of paid sick leave
- Up to 5 days of paid leave for professional development activities (e.g., licensure exams, job interviews, conference attendance)
- Up to $1500 in professional development funds (e.g., for licensure, conference attendance)
- Up to $3000 in moving expenses, if relocating for fellowship from out-of-state
Application and Interview Process
Nationwide Children’s Hospital will have three (3) Clinical Child fellows for the 2024-2025 training year. The number of positions available to be filled for the training year will be determined and updated on the UPPD website by October 28, 2022. Applicants for the Clinical Child fellowship must be on track to complete all requirements of an APA-accredited doctoral program in clinical, school, or counseling psychology and a one-year clinical APA-accredited internship, the bulk of which must be focused on children and adolescents. Completion of all requirements for the doctoral degree is expected by the beginning of the fellowship training year, though we understand that graduation ceremony dates may delay conferral of the doctoral degree until after the start of fellowship.
Applications for the 2024-2025 fellowship are due by December 15, 2023. Interviews for selected applicants will be offered in a virtual format during the month of January 2024. The fellowship begins June 24, 2024, though this start date can be delayed to accommodate completion of an applicant’s pre-doctoral internship. Applicants for the Clinical Child fellowship are required to submit a current CV, three letters of recommendation (one must be from an internship supervisor), a copy of the APPI form the applicant used for internship, and a cover letter that describes relevant training and career goals (max. two pages). There is a strong preference for individuals with developmentally-oriented clinical training with experience conducting evidence-based treatment and assessment. Clinical experience with children and adolescents is required for this position.
At Nationwide Children's, Everyone Matters. We know it takes a diverse and collaborative culture and workforce to deliver on our promise to provide the very best, innovative care. As a result, diversity and inclusion is strategically linked to the hospital’s overall success and requires true partnership and participation from all. Learn more about our commitment to diversity and inclusion.
Please send all application materials to:
Clinical Child Fellowship Program
C/O Benjamin Fields, PhD, MEd
Nationwide Children's Hospital
Big Lots Behavioral Health Services
5675 Venture Drive
Dublin, OH 43017
Alternately, application materials may be sent electronically to Benjamin.Fields@NationwideChildrens.org.
Background Check and Drug Screen
Our patients’ health and safety is in our hands. Upon hire, all new employees at Nationwide Children’s must complete and pass a background check and drug screen. The background check will include reference checking and a criminal background search complete with finger printing. Nationwide Children's follows the Ohio Revised Code to determine whether a felony or misdemeanor conviction or guilty plea is a disqualifying offense for applicants to the Internship in Professional Psychology. For applicants to the Internship in Professional Psychology, Nationwide Children's primarily relies on the background check requirements found in Ohio Revised Code Sections 3701.881, 2151.86, and 109.572 and Ohio Administrative Code Section 5101:2-5-09.
All job candidates are required to successfully complete a drug screen as a condition of employment. Nationwide Children's is a drug-free workplace, and our 9-panel drug screen tests for:
- Amphetamine/Methamphetamine
- Barbiturates
- Benzodiazepines
- Cannabinoids (including medicinal marijuana)
- Cocaine
- Methadone
- Oxycodone
- Opiates
Contact
For more information, please contact:
Benjamin Fields, PhD, MEd
Program Director
(614) 355-9580
Benjamin.Fields@nationwidechildrens.org
