Specific Practicum Descriptions
CARE Clinic Follow-Up Support Program
The Center for Management of ADHD
CHOP Family Care Center
The Family Stress and Illness Program
Center for Autism Research
Division of Oncology - Assessment Practicum
Division of Oncology - Intervention Practicum
Pediatric Feeding and Swallowing Center
Pediatric Neuropsychology Program
Pediatric Sleep Center
CARE Clinic Follow-Up Support Program
NO LONGER ACCEPTING APPLICATION
Nancy Braveman, MS, PsyD, Teresa Brieck, MSS, LCSW
The CARE Clinic Follow-Up Support Program offers psychosocial support services and mental health treatment to children and families where there is suspected or known sexual abuse. The program typically treats children from 2 to 14 years of age who have been seen at CARE Clinic for a specialized medical exam and treatment related to concerns of sexual abuse. Practicum students would work as part of an outpatient team that includes medicine, social work and psychology. The practicum is offered for 14-16 hours per week.
Job Responsibilities
- Participates in CARE Clinic on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1-5 p.m.
- Provides time-limited interventions, including psychoeducation/support and Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Treatment.
- Completes written progress notes of treatment sessions.
- Completes initial assessments of new patients.
- Receives at least two hours per week of individual supervision.
- Participates in direct observation of and by clinical supervisors.
- Participates in additional research and didactic activities as appropriate.
Education and Experience
- Enrolled in a graduate program in clinical or counseling psychology, or clinical social work.
- Preferably has had at least one year of supervised clinical experience.
- Experience and interest in doing trauma-related work with children and families
The Center for Management of ADHD
Director: Thomas J. Power, PhD
The Center for Management of ADHD at CHOP is a multidisciplinary program providing assessment, treatment and consultation services for children with ADHD and their families. The Center treats children from ages 3 to 18 years. In addition to clinical services, the ADHD Center is also dedicated to research investigating innovative treatment services for children with ADHD. Patients are seen at several locations in the CHOP system (Voorhees, Exton, Bucks County, Springfield, and 3440 Market Street, Philadelphia).
Job Responsibilities
Assessment (4-16 hours per week):
- Participating in diagnostic evaluations with a staff psychologist
- Training in administration and scoring of standardized intellectual and academic achievement tests, as well as self-report measures of emotional functioning
- Recording and communicating behavioral observations
- Collaborating with lead clinician (licensed psychologist) in interpretation of assessment findings
Pre-requisite: Students should have completed a graduate level course in psychological assessment before starting this practicum.
CHOP Family Care Center
NO LONGER ACCEPTING APPLICATION
Nancy Silverman, PhD
Two practicum positions are available for the 2012-2013 training year at the CHOP Family Care Clinic, a service specializing in the treatment of infants, children and adolescents with perinatally-acquired HIV infection. The clinic provides both primary and specialized care and consists of a multidisciplinary staff including medicine, nursing, social work, health education, nutrition and psychology.
The practicum focuses primarily on psychological assessment, and involves learning to administer, score, interpret and write up the results of cognitive and developmental evaluations across a wide age range (infancy to early adulthood). Instruments routinely used include: Bayley Scales of Infant Development (3rd edition), WPPSI-III, WISC-IV, WASI and WAIS-IV. Opportunities are also available to administer and write up comprehensive psychoeducational batteries utilizing tools to assess academic functioning (WIAT-III) as well as tests of other relevant areas such as memory and learning, phonological processing and executive functioning. Students are also responsible for and receive training in presenting test results and recommendations to both caregivers and clinic team members.
The practicum also offers the opportunities to conduct individual and group psychotherapy. Students receive close individual supervision from a licensed psychologist on all assessment activities. For therapy activities, individual supervision with a trained social worker is provided. Practicum students also participate in regular multidisciplinary patient care meetings that occur at the close of each clinic day.
Practicum is either for 8 hours (one day) or 16 hours (two days) per week. Students must be available on either Mondays or Wednesdays. A student interested in a 16 hour/week placement is preferred.
The practicum is appropriate for students in at least their second year of graduate training as well as those who have had some exposure to administering cognitive/IQ tests.
Please submit a de-identified assessment report (written either for a class or in a clinical setting) via e-mail to psychologytraining@email.chop.edu.
The Family Stress and Illness Program
NO LONGER ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS
Paul Robins, PhD Clinic Director, and Canice Crerand, PhD
The Family Stress and Illness Program provides family-based outpatient services to address the psychological needs of children and families experiencing acute or chronic illnesses, as well as more general child clinical concerns.
The unique strengths of families are recognized through all aspects of care, in particular the essential impact families have on illness management and health outcomes. Priority is assigned to providing care for children and families who have recently experienced inpatient medical hospitalization and require ongoing psychological care to optimize healthy adjustments. Many children seen through this program are experiencing somatoform spectrum type concerns (e.g., recurrent abdominal pain, irritable bowel syndrome, and other pain presentations).
Job Responsibilities
- Complete initial intake, progress notes, treatment plan, and discharge summary
- Prepare for and participate in weekly team based as well as individual supervision
- Schedule families
- Provide individual and family therapy
- articipate as team member in initial family intervention session
Education
Preference for third or fourth year doctoral-level students in clinical child psychology
Center for Autism Research
Lisa Blaskey, PhD; Judith Miller, PhD
The psychology practicum student will obtain broad knowledge in evaluation and diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs) across development (toddlers through teenagers), providing assessment of the cognitive, academic, behavioral and emotional functioning of children with ASDs. The student works under the close supervision of a licensed psychologist.
Job responsibilities
- Administers and interprets measures of cognitive, academic, behavioral, and emotional functioning for patients participating in research studies in the Center for Autism Research, under the supervision of a licensed psychologist.
- Performs evaluations using standard tools and techniques.
- Obtains training in gold standard tools for evaluation of ASDs, such as the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS) and Autism Diagnostic Interview-Revised (ADI-R).
- Completes written reports of assessment results. Obtains approval and feedback on all reports and makes edits within a reasonable amount of time.
- Prepares for and is responsive to supervision in individual and group formats.
- Participates in additional research and didactic activities as appropriate.
Education and experience
- Enrolled in a graduate program in clinical or school psychology
- Experienced in assessment of cognitive and behavioral functioning of children
- Competent in administering and scoring psychological and behavioral assessment measures
Division of Oncology - Assessment Practicum
The Division of Oncology at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia offers an assessment practicum for advanced psychology graduate students with previous experience conducting cognitive assessments and familiarity and/or experience with neuropsychological measures for children and adolescents. The student works under the close supervision of a licensed psychologist and/or neuropsychologist in the Division of Oncology.
Job responsibilities
The practicum provides students with extensive experience administering neuropsychological measures to pediatric oncology patients (preschool through young adult) and scoring, interpreting and writing the findings to address potential cognitive late effects of disease and/or treatment. Practicum students will participate in family interviews, feedback sessions, and report writing. Patients referred to the service vary in age, cancer diagnoses, and time since diagnosis with some in active treatment and others who are cancer survivors.
Education and experience
- Enrolled in a graduate program in school, clinical, or counseling psychology.
- Experience with Wechsler tests and familiarity with neuropsychological measures.
- Competent in administering and scoring of psychological and behavioral assessment measures.
- Prior experience conducting cognitive/psychoeducational assessments with children/adolescents
- For availability, we ask for a commitment of 16 hours per week (at least one full day on site for testing plus report-writing on one or more days) for at least 9 months.
- Requires some mobility and some bending and lifting.
If you have questions about this practicum position, please contact Oncology Assessment Practicum Supervisors, Melissa A. Alderfer, PhD at alderfer@email.chop.edu and Iris Paltin, PhD at paltini@email.chop.edu. Copy Lamia P. Barakat, PhD, Director of Psychosocial Services in Oncology and Coordinator of Psychology Practica in Oncology, at barakat@email.chop.edu into your correspondence.
Division of Oncology - Intervention Practicum
The Division of Oncology at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia offers an intervention practicum for advanced psychology graduate students with familiarity and/or previous experience with clinical intervention for children, adolescents and their families. The student works under the close supervision of a licensed psychologist in the Division of Oncology.
Job responsibilities
The practicum provides students with opportunities to participate in pediatric psychology programming activities in oncology. The primary activity is to meet with families of children newly diagnosed with cancer to review materials focused on psycho-education and coping strategies. Depending on the experience level of the practicum student and current department needs, other activities may include working with other staff members on the development of educational workshops for patients and/or parents, co-leading a support group for parents of children with cancer, facilitating school re-entry for children with cancer, and providing psychological intervention for children and families. Patients referred to the service vary in age, cancer diagnoses, and time since diagnosis with some in active treatment and others who are cancer survivors.
Education and experience
- Enrolled in a graduate program in school, clinical, or counseling psychology.
- Prior psychological intervention experience with children/adolescents and their families.
- Experience and/or familiarity with empirically-based intervention approaches for children/adolescents and their families.
- Experience and/or familiarity with pediatric psychology theory and research.
- Availability of 8-12 hours a week.
- Requires some mobility and some bending and lifting.
If you have questions about this practicum position, please contact Lamia P. Barakat, PhD, Director of Psychosocial Services in Oncology and Coordinator of Psychology Practicum in Oncology, at barakat@email.chop.edu or Lynne Kaplan, PhD, Oncology Intervention Practicum Supervisor, at kaplanly@email.chop.edu.
Pediatric Feeding and Swallowing Center
Loretta Martin-Halpine, PsyD; Colleen Lukens, PhD; Christine Reinhard, PhD, Nancy Silverman, PhD
The psychology practicum student works with a consultative, interdisciplinary team comprised of psychology, medicine, nutrition, speech therapy and occupational therapy to evaluate feeding disorders. The clinic serves a range of children, primarily from infancy through elementary ages, who demonstrate a variety of feeding problems, such as limited intake of food and/or fluids, limited variety of foods accepted, and failure to transition to advanced food textures. The student works under the close supervision of a licensed psychologist.
Job responsibilities
- Evaluates behavioral aspects of feeding as part of an interdisciplinary team.
- Develops initial behavioral recommendations.
- Completes written sections of evaluations.
- Participates in discussion of initial recommendations with caregivers.
- Fulfills other assigned responsibilities as appropriate.
Education and experience
- Enrolled in a doctoral program in school, clinical, or counseling psychology.
- Experience with behavioral treatment models preferred.
- Clinical experience with young children preferred.
Pediatric Neuropsychology Program
NO LONGER ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS
Lauren Krivitzky, PhD, ABPP-Cn, Neuropsychology Externship Recruiter; Thomas Flynn, Ph.D, Program Director
The Pediatric Neuropsychology program provides neuropsychological assessment and consultation services for children/adolescents from a wide age range and with varying presenting concerns. The program receives referrals from many different medical services, including neurology, neurosurgery, hematology/oncology, and physical medicine and rehabilitation, and from a variety of clinics for neurodevelopmental disorders. The neuropsychology practicum student has the opportunity to work with one of our neuropsychology faculty on outpatient neuropsychological assessments and may also gain exposure to inpatients and the various multidisciplinary teams with whom the neuropsychologists collaborate.
Job Responsibilities
- Administer/score neuropsychological tests for a range of ages from preschool through adolescent/young adult
- Participate in parent/child interview and feedback sessions
- Prepare for and participate in weekly individual supervision
- Opportunity to participate in didactics through the neuropsychology program and other hospital/program specific didactics
- Potential opportunity for observing interdisciplinary team meetings or clinic
Education
Preference for students with prior exposure to neuropsychology through either course work and/or clinical experience. Also prefer third or fourth year doctoral-level students
Pediatric Sleep Center
NO LONGER ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS
Jodi Mindell, PhD and Melisa Moore, PhD
The Pediatric Sleep Center rotation provides practicum students the opportunity to work with an interdisciplinary team from pulmonary, neurology and psychology. Practicum students will gain knowledge of the diagnosis and treatment of both physical and behavioral sleep disorders, with a special emphasis on the behavioral treatment of bedtime problems and night wakings. In addition to learning skills relevant to sleep disorders, this is an excellent opportunity for students to learn behavioral principles and techniques, which can be generalized to other domains.
We have two clinics, Wednesday and Thursday afternoons, where we see patients from ages 3 months to 21 years with a variety of sleep disorders. Both clinics see approximately 10-14 patients in the afternoon. Students are responsible for interviewing patients, formulating diagnoses, creating treatment plans, and providing follow-up care.
Required meetings/activities
- The Wednesday clinic is an 8-hour rotation (12-6 p.m.) and includes a required weekly didactic from 12-1 p.m., while the Thursday clinic is a 7-hour rotation (1-6 p.m.). Each student will see an average of two new patients per clinic each week, conducting a thorough history, presenting the case to the team, and then providing feedback and recommendations to the family.
- Practicum students are required to complete their reports at the end of each clinic. Students are required to note all patient contact by phone during the week.
- Practicum students provide follow-up with their behavioral cases by telephone throughout the week. Typically this adds up to approximately one hour per week.
- Group supervision occurs after clinic on both Wednesdays and Thursdays.
Preference for third or fourth year doctoral-level students.
For more information, please contact, Jodi Mindell at Mindell@email.chop.edu or Melisa Moore at mooremel@email.chop.edu.
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