Postdoctoral Fellowship in Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychology

This focus area will center around exposure-based treatment for anxiety disorders, including generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder and selective mutism. Primary modalities include individual cognitive behavioral therapy, exposure and response prevention (ERP) and parent-focused strategies (SPACE).

Director: Allison Meyer, PhD

This focus area will involve assessment and intervention of complex and comorbid behavioral health presentations for children and adolescents including ADHD, anxiety, depression, disruptive behaviors and posttraumatic stress symptoms. The fellow will also gain experience in assessing and conceptualizing phenomena that occur across diagnoses, including family dynamics, trauma exposure, self-harm/suicidal ideation and substance use.

Director: Amanda Broderick, PhD

This focus area will be in consultation-liaison assessment and treatment for patients hospitalized at Riley Hospital for Children. Consult reasons cover a broad area of child and pediatric psychology and include safety evaluations (suicide attempts, SI, HI, etc.), coping with chronic or acute illness, traumatic stress, psychological factors and externalizing behaviors impacting a medical condition or symptom, comorbid physical and mental health conditions, etc. 

Director: Katherine Schwartzkopf, PsyD

This focus area includes opportunities in the early childhood clinic and the behavior management program. The early childhood clinic treats children ages 2-7 who present with behavior problems due to a wide range of issues including oppositional defiant disorder, ADHD, trauma, anxiety, toileting difficulties, feeding challenges, screentime conflicts and disruptions in the caregiver-child relationship. The primary modality used for treatment is PCIT, in which the fellow would have the option to be certified during training. The behavior management program follows the MATCH protocol to provide parent management training to address behavior problems in children ages 6-17.

Director: Melissa Hord, PhD

Within this focus area, the fellow will provide short-term outpatient therapy to address a variety of presenting concerns using the FIRST/MATCH model within an integrative behavioral health program. The fellow will also have the opportunity to gain experience in providing supervision to bachelor’s and master’s level providers and contribute to program development.

Director: Allison Meyer, PhD

• 20+ hours of client contact per week

• Four to eight hours per week dedicated to administration and research endeavors

• Weekly supervisory sessions with PhD/HSPP psychologist

• Educational opportunities including attendance at Grand Rounds presented by the Department of Psychiatry and didactics and training events offered at IU School of Medicine

• Successful completion of Indiana jurisprudence exam and EPPP

• Completion of hours for Indiana licensure and HSPP endorsement

• Other assignments as negotiated

• Completion of an APA-accredited PhD or PsyD program in clinical or school psychology

• Completion of an APA-accredited predoctoral internship program

• Applications are encouraged from professionals of all ethnic backgrounds

Interested applicants must submit a CV, three letters of reference, graduate transcripts and a cover letter.

Applications should be submitted to TraNeka Pippens, post-doctoral fellowship program coordinator.

Questions should be submitted the track directors:

• Anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorders — Allison Meyer, PhD

• Child and adolescent behavioral health — Amanda Broderick, PhD

• Consultation-liaison — Katherine Schwartzkopf, PsyD

• Externalizing disorders — Melissa Hord, PhD

• Integrated behavioral health — Allison Meyer, PhD