The Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Health Service Psychology is a year-long rigorous program housed in an interdisciplinary setting. The program is comprised of three fellows who, in their training year, provide comprehensive mental health services to children, adolescents, and young adults ranging from ages 10-26.
The Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center (MSAHC) Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Health Service Psychology aims to prepare the fellows to become competent, independent practitioners in the field of professional psychology, and to be equipped to work with underserved youth and within integrated healthcare settings. We aim to train fellows to become confident and comfortable providing developmentally and culturally sensitive intervention and assessment services to historically underserved youth. To this end, we have aligned the model for our training program with the mission of the MSAHC – to break down racial, social, and economic barriers to health care, health, and well-being for young people by providing vital services—high quality, comprehensive, integrated, confidential, and at no cost to them—for all who come to us. We provide these services to promote equity and within the frameworks of racial, social, economic, and sexual and reproductive justice.
The fellowship experience is divided among direct-service clinical training activities, supervision, didactic instruction, and a program development initiative/project. Each fellow applies to and participates in one of three subspecialties: High Risk and DBT Fellowship, Neuropsychology Fellowship, and School-Based Health Fellowship.
The High Risk and DBT fellow will gain expertise in the provision of psychotherapy to underserved youth (ages 10-26) and their families, with a focus on working with youth in their community who are at high risk for suicide and self-harm. A large portion of the fellow’s caseload will consist of adolescents and young adults enrolled in our clinic’s DBT program. The fellow would provide individual DBT and crisis phone coaching and co-lead a weekly, 60-minute DBT skills group. The fellow will also attend a weekly DBT consultation group.
The Neuropsychology fellow will provide outpatient psychological, psychoeducational, and neuropsychological assessments for patients with learning disabilities, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and autism spectrum disorder as well as psychiatric disorders including mood disorders, anxiety disorder, trauma- and stressor-related disorders, and personality disorders, among others. Patients seeking evaluations are referred from our mental health clinic and primary care clinic. The fellow will be trained in clinical consultation and advocacy for the patients they serve, with the goal of providing patient-centered recommendations for educational interventions, psychotherapeutic interventions, and further assessment. With the support of their supervisor, the fellow will also attend and participate in school Individualized Education Program (IEP) meetings to advocate on behalf of patients. The fellow will also provide psychotherapy services to youth with various presenting mental health problems, with an opportunity to focus on interventions for your with neurodevelopmental disorder.
The School-Based Health fellow will have the opportunity to rotate in one of MSAHC’s School-Based Health Centers (SBHCs), where the fellow would provide integrated services in a multidisciplinary team at one of three MSAHC-run SBHCs in Manhattan. In the SBHC, the fellow will receive referrals from primary care providers, assess patients, and work with social work and medical staff to help patients meet existing emotional, behavioral, psychosocial, and medical needs. The fellow would gain experience in same-day risk and needs assessments, in brief trauma-informed interventions, and in working directly with medical providers as part of an integrated team. The fellow will also attend a weekly supervision meeting focused on providing mental health treatment in the school-based health care setting.
Fellows receive one hour weekly of individual supervision for their psychotherapy or assessment cases, as well as one hour of group supervision. Fellows attend weekly one-hour didactics with fellows from across the MSHS. Fellows also have the opportunity to supervise junior trainees throughout their post-doctoral training year. Fellows participate in a weekly supervision of supervision group which includes psychology fellows from across the MSHS.
Fellows participate in a quality improvement/program development initiative. Examples of past projects include aiding the DBT Program Director in improvement of the DBT program, and formalizing processes, policies, and procedures for specialty programs in our primary care clinic. These initiatives often involve collaboration with interdisciplinary teams at MSAHC and from across the Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS).
The fellowship program begins in September. Candidates must be enrolled in an APA-Accredited clinical, school, or counseling doctoral program (Ph.D. or Psy.D.), and be on track to graduate by the end of June each year. Candidates who are currently completing an APA-accredited internship are strongly preferred.
Please include the following materials with your application: 1) CV, 2) Official transcript(s) of doctoral-level work, 3) Two letters of reference, 4) A cover letter illustrating your ideas about how the MSAHC post-doctoral fellowship will help you reach specific professional goals. Please include a brief note about the status of your dissertation in your cover letter. All applications are due by December 15th each year.
Email submissions for the High Risk DBT Fellowship should be sent to Dr. Stacey Lurie, Psychology Training Program Director, at Stacey.Lurie@mountsinai.org AND Dr. Neela Karikehalli, DBT Program Director, at Neela.Karikehalli@mountsinai.org.
Email submissions for the Neuropsychology Fellowship should be sent to Dr. Stacey Lurie, Psychology Training Program Director, at Stacey.Lurie@mountsinai.org AND Dr. Marcel Trujillo, Neuropsychology and Education Testing Program Director, at marcel.trujillo@mountsinai.org.
Email submissions for the School-Based Health Fellowship should be sent to Dr. Stacey Lurie, Psychology Training Program Director, at Stacey.Lurie@mountsinai.org.
Please direct inquiries to:
Stacey Lurie, PhD
Director, Psychology Training Program
The Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center
320 East 94th Street
New York, NY, 10128
212-423-2929
Stacey.Lurie@mountsinai.org