Princeton University
Location
Princeton, NJ | United States
Job description
Post Doctoral Resident
US-NJ-Princeton
Job ID: 2023-18053
Type: Full-Time
# of Openings: 1
Category: Health Services
Princeton University
Overview
Counseling and Psychological Services (CPS) at Princeton University offers Post-Doctoral training to graduates who come from scientific and scholarly-based counseling and psychology programs, who demonstrate the capacity to engage in theoretical and research-based inquiry, and who have a readiness for intensive training in practice. The Post-Doctoral training program offers extensive clinical experience with substantial supervision, interdisciplinary collaboration, treatment team participation, and outreach opportunities.
The training program seeks to facilitate clinical competence through personal and intellectual development in the context of supervisory relationships. CPS values multi-theoretical and evidence-based approaches to treatment within short-term therapeutic individual, couples, and group therapy models. We also offer concentrations in DBT-Informed Counseling, Eating Disorders, Alcohol and Other Drug Counseling, and Sports Psychology.
Post-Doctoral Fellows graduating from our program have gone on to work at various college counseling centers including but not limited to Princeton, UC Berkeley, Columbia, Drexel, Wake Forest University, Georgetown, Cornell, UCLA, Lehigh and Stevens Institute of Technology.
This is a supervised 12-month, term position starting on August 12, 2024 to August 15, 2025 with competitive salary plus generous health benefits.
The training program provides multiple opportunities for Post-Doctoral Fellows to develop and refine clinical competencies. Through participation on various clinical teams, Fellows can concentrate in treatment approaches tailored to meet the needs of students who struggle with eating disorders, alcohol and other drug use/abuse, or emotion management. In addition to these three core treatment teams, Fellows have the option to participate with the Mind/Body Health Services and TIGERSPAW Sports Psychology Teams.
CPS focuses on clinical case conceptualization and treatment interventions that promote overall mental and physical well-being and which consider diagnosis, multiculturalism, family/ cultural contexts, and interpersonal connections.
Clinical ActivitiesIndividual Counseling : Post-Doctoral Fellows engage in individual counseling, seeing students in a primarily brief therapy model and providing approximately 15 individual contact hours a week. Individual counseling involves applying a theoretical frame-of-reference in assessing and conceptualizing presenting problems, providing clinical disposition, and developing and implementing formalized treatment plans.
Initial Consultations (IC) : Each week Post-Doctoral Fellows conduct approximately 6 ICâ™s, which are 20-minute triage meetings that clinicians use to guide students to optimal treatment options given presenting concerns and available resources. After Initial Consultation, students may be offered immediate urgent care, assigned an Intake within the service, or are referred to community providers.
Group Counseling : Post-Doctoral Fellows are involved with leading or co-leading one or more of the various groups offered at CPS each semester. They have the option to co-lead with a senior clinician and so can work directly in a clinical situation with a supervisor. Most groups are themed groups with some general therapy groups. Some groups are on-going, open process groups and some groups are brief structured groups.
Crisis Evaluation & Intervention : Post-Doctoral Fellows participate with increasing responsibility and autonomy in the day and evening on-call rotations providing emergency assessments to clients who present on a walk-in basis or after-hours. Supervisory support for these interactions is always available. As part of crisis and urgent care work, Fellows interact with the University Health Service Infirmary, which provides brief inpatient care, and have admission and discharge privileges. Interacting with the Infirmary and its medical staff provides additional interdisciplinary training opportunities.
Urgent Care Appointments : Post-Doctoral Fellows will provide some urgent care coverage to see students who present with urgent and emergent clinical issues.
Psycho-Educational Programming and Outreach : CPS engages in a wide range of programming and outreach including invited presentations to departments, classes, and residential colleges. Post-Doctoral Fellows are part of outreach programming through joining other Staff in presentations as well as developing their own based on their areas of interest and expertise. Additionally, Fellows develop outreach specific to their concentration areas for presentation on campus, and work with the Coordinator of Outreach to develop their outreach programs and thus gain practical training experience.
Training ActivitiesIndividual and Group Supervision : Supervision of Post-Doctoral Fellows is conducted by licensed Clinical Psychologists on a regular weekly schedule, including two individual supervision sessions and one group supervision session. In accordance with the 2003 APA Ethical Guidelines, we do not require disclosure of personal information. It is useful to share information about how we view self-disclosure in the supervisory experience so candidates are fully informed about the supervision model:
Group Supervision : Meets weekly and serves as opportunity to discuss clinical cases from a âœlarge questionâ perspective. The group provides a âœsafe spaceâ to discuss cases, and to address administrative issues and overall adjustment to the service. The group provides opportunities to talk about important marketplace issues and concerns as Fellows prepare for entrance to licensure and independent practice.
Post-Doctoral Fellowsâ™ Support Group : Post-Doctoral Fellows participate in a weekly support group, typically led by a graduate of the program who plays no supervisory role. The group provides an opportunity for Fellows to communicate candidly about their experiences in the training program. The group is generally confidential; however, exceptions can be made in the face of serious ethical lapses with a potential to cause harm to students.
Clinical Team Meeting : Post-Doctoral Fellows are integrated into one or more Clinical Teams including Eating Concerns, Alcohol & Other Drugs, Emotion Management, Mind Body Health Services and TIGERSPAW (athletes). Teams meet weekly or biweekly and provide peer supervision and clinical planning for cases relevant to the Teamâ™s concentration.
Case Conference : Post-Doctoral Fellows are integrated into weekly case conference meetings with Staff. Case conference presentations provide an opportunity for Fellows to learn from Staff by participating in case presentations as well as presenting cases for feedback from a broader group than individual supervision. Fellows are assigned to offer at least one formal case presentation to staff and receive feedback on their presentation.
Seminar : Post-Doctoral Fellows meet weekly for training seminar with either CPS staff, other Princeton staff and faculty, or professionals from the community. Seminar goals include:
Fellows are expected to present at least one seminar and social work interns are invited to attend all seminars.
Administrative ActivitiesCase Management : Post-Doctoral Fellows are responsible for managing their own caseloads to ensure their size is appropriate. In addition, administrative time is provided each day to write reports, progress notes, business/ professional letters and e-mails, and to return telephone calls, consult with supervisors and other staff, and do general planning.
Selection of Post-Doctoral Fellows : Current Fellows participate in the selection process for the next yearâ™s class of Fellows and review applicant files, make recommendations, and actively engage in the interview process.
Staff/Operations Meetings : The purpose of the meeting is for staff to have a set time each week to share office and university information, to experience learning together, process through staff issues, and share colleagueship, which becomes especially important in busy semesters. Post-Doctoral Fellows are strongly encouraged to participate in these meetings as full staff members.
Interested candidates are required to upload a brief (500 words or fewer) letter of interest (which includes your statement about the area of Training Concentration in which you are interested) with your curriculum vitae and three letters of recommendation including one letter from your internship site training director/coordinator. Letters of recommendation must be uploaded directly to the Princeton University on-line application portal (option to upload additional documents can found on the first page of the online application).
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About Princeton University
Princeton University is a vibrant community of scholarship and learning that stands in the nation's service and in the service of all nations. Chartered in 1746, Princeton is the fourth-oldest college in the United States. Princeton is an independent, coeducational, nondenominational institution that provides undergraduate and graduate instruction in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and engineering.As a world-renowned research university, Princeton seeks to achieve the highest levels of distinction in the discovery and transmission of knowledge and understanding. At the same time, Princeton is distinctive among research universities in its commitment to undergraduate teaching.Today, more than 1,100 faculty members instruct approximately 5,200 undergraduate students and 2,600 graduate students. The University's generous financial aid program ensures that talented students from all economic backgrounds can afford a Princeton education.
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