Postdoctoral Fellowships in Clinical Psychology
Virginia Treatment Center for Children
Virginia Treatment Center for Children (VTCC) is the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry of
the Department of Psychiatry at Virginia Commonwealth University Health System. VTCC provides acute
psychiatric inpatient treatment and outpatient services for children, adolescents and their families. VTCC
is well known within the field for its ability to successfully treat complex emotional and behavioral
disorders in children and adolescents. VTCC also offers consultation services to local mental health
centers, detention centers and pediatric clinics. In addition to clinical services, the center reaches out to
provide information to Virginia’s mental health system and policy makers through training, technical
assistance and consultation services as well as research and program evaluation activities.
In addition to an APA-approved predoctoral internship, postdoctoral fellowships have been in
place at VTCC for over a decade. There are currently two fully funded fellowship positions. Each
fellowship position is a one-year experience designed to promote the professional development of child
clinical psychologists. The training year provides fellows with intensive clinical and supervisory
experiences across the continuum of mental health services for children, adolescents and families.
Fellows receive two hours of supervision from psychology faculty members each week. These
supervision sessions focus not only on fine-tuning clinical skills in working with children, adolescents and
their families, but also on ‘supervision of supervision’ issues and professional identity and development.
Fellows provide two hours of supervision to pre-doctoral interns or practicum students in clinical
psychology – one hour of assessment supervision and one hour of therapy supervision.
Specific responsibilities for the postdoctoral fellowship include the following:
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Provide therapeutic services to children and adolescents in the acute services program,
including individual therapy, family therapy, case management, and participation in weekly
team meetings. Responsibilities also include conducting psychological evaluations of youth
referred to the hospital for brief inpatient psychiatric evaluations.
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Provide outpatient services through VTCC Outpatient Clinic, seeing 3-4 patients per week.
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Coordinate psychological assessment services. This involves assigning assessment cases to
psychology trainees, completing psychological assessments when needed, and managing
and ordering testing materials.
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Provide on-call coverage (approximately 5 weekends per year).
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Provide supervision to a psychology intern or practicum student for therapy cases (one
hour/week).
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Provide supervision to a psychology intern or practicum student for psychological
assessments (one hour/week).
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Receive two hours of weekly supervision from faculty members.
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Participate in one elective clinical experience for at least 6 months of the year.
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Develop and participates in one scholarly activity during the year (e.g. evaluation of a clinical
intervention; participation in one of the ongoing projects within VTCC; extension of
dissertation; literature review and presentation of results; training for hospital staff, etc.)
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Attend Psychiatry Department Grand Rounds.
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Participate in weekly Psychology faculty meetings.
Postdoctoral Fellows receive an annual stipend of $36,000 and supervision hours toward
licensure. Benefits include generous leave time and options for health and dental insurance. Start date
is negotiable (July through September).
Send letter of interest, names of three references, and Curriculum Vitae to:
Julie A. Linker, Ph.D.
Director of Psychology Training
Virginia Treatment Center for Children
Box 980489
Richmond, VA 23298-0489.
For further information contact Dr. Linker via e-mail at jalinker@vcu.edu or by phone, 804-6280088. The deadline for applications is February 15.
Note: VTCC’s internship brochure at www.vcuhealth.org/vtcc offers more information about
the Virginia Treatment Center for Children, the psychology training program, and the psychology faculty.
January 25, 2012
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