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Hanna Perkins Center for Child Development Post-Doctoral Fellowship Program in Psychoanalytic Clinical Child Psychology CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM DESCRIPTION The Clinical Psychology Fellowship Program at the Hanna Perkins Center for Child Development involves clinical and administrative work in our outpatient Hadden Clinic for Children and Families, consultation experience in our Extension Division, and observation in our therapeutic preschool to provide a focus on work with children and families from a psychoanalytic orientation. Post-graduate fellows receive an intensive introduction to knowledge and skills in clinical and child development theory, practice, and research, and are provided and in-depth introduction to clinical practice. Our post-doctoral fellowship is planned to provide a transitional experience for recent graduates of doctoral programs as they pursue the supervised clinical experience required for licensure as an independent professional psychologist. Emphasis is on the further development of clinical assessment, treatment, and consultation skills, while utilizing knowledge of theory and research. Fellows also gain experience in administrative tasks and in a range of consultation and/or teaching opportunities that extend experience beyond the consultation room and into the community. In our practitioner-scholar model, the post-graduate development of an independent professional psychologist includes a continuous integration of psychoanalytic theory, research, and practice with each of these sources informing the others. The goals of the program include the mastery of assessment, treatment, and consultative skills enabling the fellow to provide these services to work with children and families. It is expected that at the end of the fellowship year, fellows will be able to function as independent professional psychologists, eligible to pursue licensure as competent clinicians without requiring further supervision or staff backup. They will also be experienced in providing consultation as a psychologist/child development specialist to early childhood educators, caregivers and other professionals working with young children and families. In order to attain these long-term, large-scale goals, specific objectives have been developed within each area of professional functioning as follows: Evaluation, Diagnosis, & Treatment Formulation & Recommendation
Psychological Assessment
Treatment
Consultation
The curriculum plan designed to support these goals and objectives is an extensive range of direct service experiences, in the context of ongoing seminars, intensive clinical supervision, and collaboration within the Center and the surrounding community. The program is designed for the psychology post-doctoral graduate who must fulfill the requirements of one year of supervised professional experience in order to be eligible for examination for licensure in Clinical Psychology. It combines structured learning experiences (e.g., seminars, team meetings, case conferences) supervised clinical practice with children, adolescents, and their parents and collaboration with professional colleagues and challenges the post-graduate fellow to develop and demonstrate administrative and organizational skills. Each fellow carries an ongoing caseload of approximately twelve to fourteen child/adolescent patients ranging in terms of developmental level, presenting problem, and demographic variables. Fellows participate as co-leaders of an interdisciplinary intake and evaluation team and undertake psychological assessments. Fellows compile in-depth process recordings of clinical sessions and receive extensive supervision of their work, culminating in a formal presentation to colleagues of a clinical case. It is required that each fellow will have a minimum of two hours of individual supervision per week focusing on assessment and individual treatment cases. In addition each fellow participates in weekly sessions of group supervision, case conferences, didactic seminars focusing on child development theory and treatment from a psychoanalytic perspective. Since 1958, the Hanna Perkins Center has been training candidates in child psychoanalysis. The series of seminars taken by fellows also constitutes the first year of didactic coursework for qualification as a child psychoanalyst. For those fellows who have completed a pre-doctoral internship at Hanna Perkins, their didactic coursework constitutes the second year of courses leading toward qualification as a child psychoanalyst. Thus, a fellow at Hanna Perkins can simultaneously begin or continue to progress through analytic training. One of the clear advantages of training at Hanna Perkins is the extent to which trainees are exposed to a rich and diverse population of service recipients. In fact, one of the earliest texts focusing on how young children come to understand and integrate racial differences – Not By the Color of Their Skin (1970) by Marjorie McDonald, was based on observations and research in the Hanna Perkins School. HPC’s commitment to providing services regardless of ability to pay and its location in Shaker Heights, an inner-ring suburb of the City of Cleveland, continues to result in a diverse and varied population utilizing all of our program services. This diversity is reflected in our School, Clinic, and Extension programs where as many as two-thirds of the children and families served come from minority populations, representing all socio-economic levels and a wide diversity of race, religion, and family constellation. APPLICATION PROCESS Graduates from APA approved Ph.D. or Psy.D. programs in clinical psychology and with experience/emphasis in working with children and/or adolescents may apply. Some knowledge of and familiarity with psychoanalytic theory is preferred. The fellowship experience is for 12 months, beginning each year in mid-August. Applicants having completed a Pre-Doctoral Internship at the Hanna Perkins Center may receive preferred consideration. Applications may be submitted to: Thomas F. Barrett, Ph.D., Director Hanna Perkins Center for Child Development 19910 Malvern Rd., Shaker Heights, OH, 44122 OHIO The Hanna Perkins
Center for Child Development Director of Training: Thomas F. Barrett, Ph.D. Number of Fellows: One (2007) two (2008) Number Funded: One (2007) two (2008) Stipends: Approximately $30,000.00 Number of Positions Pre-allocated: None Percentages of time average intern devotes to: 1. Psychological Assessment: 10 - 15% 2. Psychotherapy: 40% 3. Seminar Attendance: 10 - 15% 4. Supervision: 10 - 15% 5. Consultation: 5 - 10% 6. Administration: 5-10% Theoretical Orientation: Psychoanalytic Major Theoretical View Represented by Staff: Psychodynamic Program Specialization or Restrictions: Child/Adolescent & Family Requirements:
Starting Date: August 16, 2007
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