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The Child
Psychiatry Outpatient Service of Beth Israel Medical Center offers six,
two and a half-day externship positions in Child, Adolescent, and Family
starting in September of each year. The following is a brief description
of the training opportunities.
- Supervision on
four psychotherapy cases including dynamic, systemic, and integrative
orientations; group supervision on a family case with use of one-way
mirror and videotape.
- Individual and
group supervision of cases with emphasis on countertransference and
transference issues from a multicultural and diversity perspective.
- Development of
clinical skills and therapeutic interventions relevant to working with
diversity including factors such as ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender,
race, and culture.
- Integration of
theory and practice as applied to diversity and multicultural issues
in psychotherapy.
- Family Therapy
training from a systemic perspective.
- Live and videotape
case supervision of individual, group, and family psychotherapy.
The requisites include:
- Six psychological
test batteries.
- A minimum of two
and a maximum of 4 child/family therapy cases.
- Two weekly child
and family intake assessments.
- Participation in
a two-semester didactic seminar taught by supervising faculty which
introduces different therapy modalities, addresses issues of child and
adolescent development, exposes externs to clinical theory and technique
in child and family therapy.
- Participation in
a two-semester didactic seminar in which multicultural issues in treatment
such as race, gender, intergenerational patterns, dynamics of the ethnically
different (or similar) therapeutic dyad, and the therapist role are
discussed and processed.
- Participation and
presentations in bi-weekly interdisciplinary case conferences.
- Options are available
to attend the Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds.
This externship emphasizes didactic as well as clinical experiences.
The didactics take place all day Tuesday and Thursday mornings. Clinical
and supervision hours are scheduled according to the availability of students,
patients and supervisors. The externship is most appropriate for those
students at a relatively advanced stage of their clinical training (e.g.
third year students). As our population is a challenging one, we prefer
applicants who have already had some clinical experience. Candidates of
diverse ethnicity and Spanish speaking are especially encouraged to apply.
To apply send your curriculum vitae, a cover letter stating current interests
and professional goals, two letters of recommendation, preferably from
people who are familiar with your clinical work, and a psychological test
report.
Applications
received by January 15, 2008 will be given preference for interviews to
begin the second week of February 2008. Mail materials to:
Mabel E. Quiñones,
Ph.D.
Psychologist-in-Charge of Multicultural Child and Family Training
Beth Israel Medical Center, POSC
2 Bernstein Pavillion
First Avenue at 16th Street
New York, N.Y. 10003
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