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- Post-Doctoral Residency in Health Service Psychology
Our Counseling Center at The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) is announcing post-doctoral residency opportunities for 2022-2023. The Residency is a 12 month, full time appointment. The stipend is $58,000 plus university benefits. The Residency begins August 1, 2022 and ends July 28, 2023.
POST-DOCTORAL RESIDENCY ANNOUNCEMENTAND INSTRUCTIONS FOR 2022-23 (PDF)
The residency program at the University of California, San Diego Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) involves supervised experience working as an integral member of a team of clinicians serving over 39,000 diverse undergraduate and graduate students. Our main focus is to provide advanced training in an environment that facilitates professional growth and development. The postdoctoral residency year focuses on the integration and refinement of professional skills in a supervised environment in preparation for licensure and professional work in a variety of mental health settings and those within higher education. Responsibilities include provision of short-term counseling/psychotherapy, group therapy, initial evaluation and assessment, referrals, crisis/urgent care counseling, outreach and consultation to the campus community, serving as consultant to one of six undergraduate colleges or major campus programs, delivery of training, and administrative committee work. One postdoc is housed at the Student Health Center with a focused practice within a behavioral health setting. In addition, the resident will work with a department on campus to provide ongoing consultation, outreach, and collaboration.
Residents typically provide 20 hours of clinical work per week, which includes initial evaluations, groups, brief individual and couples therapy, psycho-educational workshops and a bi-weekly on-call shift. Clinical training focuses on brief therapy. Residents receive 2 hours of individual clinical supervision, one hour of group supervision, and participate in a weekly multidisciplinary case conference. Additionally, residents participate in a weekly Postdoctoral Support Group, as well as professional development meetings and training seminars. There are several areas of emphasis for outreach and consultation that residents are assigned, which gain them exposure to specific populations and consultation with specific campus groups. In addition, residents participate in several formal (our site is an authorized provider of CE units by the California Board of Psychology) and informal trainings that are offered throughout the year for all professional staff on topics such as Law and Ethics, Supervision, Suicide Prevention, and various clinical topics.
The residency fulfills licensure requirements for postdoctoral supervised practice in the state of California. Residents receive over 1700 hours of supervised experience with at least 25% of their hours being dedicated to direct, clinical service.
The goal of the residency program is to provide advanced training in Health Service Psychology and enhance professional identity as a psychologist so that graduates are eligible for independent practice and employment in a variety of settings in professional psychology, with specialized experience in college counseling centers, student health centers or other services/centers within higher education. We are committed to training professionals for the independent and interdependent professional practice of psychology within a community psychology model of service delivery. We provide a unique training opportunity for the application of therapy, outreach, consultation and multicultural counseling to a diverse student population.
Specific objectives include:
The University of California San Diego (UCSD) is known as one of the top research universities in the world, located in beautiful La Jolla, California. Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS), a unit within the UC San Diego Health cluster of Student Health and Wellbeing, delivers campus-based mental health services for a wide range of psychological problems and clinical conditions within the undergraduate, graduate, and professional school student clientele. CAPS staff and Postdoc Residents provide multicultural, multidisciplinary, and student centered psychological services within a community based setting, To that end, a primary decentralized strategy has been employed in locating CAPS staff members within the university setting. CAPS staff and Postdoctoral residents have a primary office location in one of the seven undergraduate colleges on the UCSD campus or at the Student Health Center. About two thirds of the professional staff have been grouped into small teams and placed in offices within, or near the administrative complexes of the seven undergraduate colleges on the UCSD campus. These colleges include Revelle College, John Muir College, Thurgood Marshall College, Eleanore Roosevelt College, Earl Warren College, Sixth College and Seventh College. Each of these colleges have their own separate sets of general education requirements and academic philosophies, as well as having their own separate academic advising service.
The remaining CAPS staff are housed at Revelle College in a central service office. Other staff have offices at the Women’s Center, OASIS and the International Center. The decentralized nature of CAPS allows for the application of the community mental health model which is deeply ingrained in the provision of services provided. Because the colleges are the places on campus where programs involving residential life, undergraduate activities, and academic advising are centered, they can be productive staging areas for psychological outreach and consultation services. The college outreach team, usually consisting of a Postdoc, and two senior staff members, serve as in-house, psychological consultants to the administration of the college.
Trainees and staff spend the majority of the time in these locations providing direct services. Most of the CAPS’ administrative meetings, Postdoc training seminars, group services and emergency/urgent care services take place at the central service offices. As a result, there is frequently a mix of college counselors and Postdocs with Central staff throughout the week. This encourages professional enrichment, as well as reinforcing the staff's primary identification with CAPS. Additionally, since the Central Service is removed from the colleges and their administrative complexes, its location offers a more private entry-point for undergraduate students seeking services.
The formal and informal training opportunities that strengthen the resident’s knowledge base, in concert with clinical experience, allow the residents to further consolidate their learning and to meet the competencies and objectives of the Residency. Throughout the year the residents work with various staff in different capacities. These training opportunities include:
In addition to providing outreach and consultation services within the individual colleges where postdoc offices are located, Postdoc Residents will be matched to one of the following emphasis areas for 3-5 hours of focused outreach and consultation experiences, with the exception of the Behavioral Health Specialty which is a fully embedded experience:
In order to develop and enhance program evaluation and research skills, each resident is responsible for participating in a research, program evaluation, or program development project. This project is supervised by a psychologist mentor at UCSD CAPS. At the beginning of the training year, postdocs will meet with the CAPS Information Systems (IS) Director, along with several identified CAPS psychologists interested in research, to discuss and identify possible projects. Postdocs will be matched with a mentor with similar research interests and propose a project to the IS Director. The IS Director will review proposed projects and provide feedback and guidance on the selection of a project that is both meaningful and practical to complete within the timeframe of the residency year. Postdocs will meet with their mentor periodically throughout the year and at the end of the year will present to CAPS staff on their projects in a half day research showcase.
The residency program assumes the following responsibilities to ensure residents receive comprehensive, ethical, and professional training:
The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) is announcing postdoctoral residency opportunities for 2022-23. The Residency is a 12 month, full time appointment. The stipend is $58,000 plus university benefits. The Residency begins August 1, 2022 and ends July 28, 2023. Please visit our website for information about our center: https://caps.ucsd.edu.
The Residency provides advanced clinical training with a focus on mental health in higher education and involves supervised experience working as an integral member of a team of clinicians serving approximately 40,000 diverse undergraduate and graduate students. Responsibilities include, provision of short-term counseling/psychotherapy, group therapy, initial evaluation and assessment, and crisis and urgent care. Residents will participate in a clinical outreach/consultation emphasis 3-5 hours per week which will be assigned based on demonstrated interest/experience and needs of the center. We are a decentralized counseling center and residents are housed within the seven colleges on the UCSD campus, affording the resident a unique and embedded consultation experience. **Upon arrival, residents may be involved in outreach and teaching activities which includes the facilitation of a 4 week College Success Strategies course as part of a Summer Bridge program for incoming underrepresented students and conducting a section of a First Year Experience Course for students.
The optimal candidate will possess the following: demonstrated interest and experience working with diverse multicultural, university populations, strong clinical and crisis management skills, outreach delivery experience, organizational skills, basic computer skills, and excellent communication and written skills.
Residents receive approximately 1700 hours of supervised experience with at least 25% of their hours being dedicated to direct, clinical service.
Applicants must have completed an APA/CPA-accredited internship and possess a doctoral degree from an APACPA-accredited program by the start date of the Residency. After selection, a background check is conducted that verifies that candidates have no criminal or other record that would preclude employment in the University's judgment. Formal hiring is contingent on these requirements.
Our program will be using the APPA CAS (APPIC Psychology Postdoctoral Application-Centralized Application System). Please submit the following materials electronically to the APPA CAS system by Monday, January 3, 2022 (midnight PST): https://appicpostdoc.liaisoncas.com/applicant-ux/#/login
Judy Goodman-Fermin, Ph.D.
Training Director
UC San Diego Counseling and Psychological Services
Email: jfgoodman@health.ucsd.edu
Phone: 858-534-3755
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Post-Doctoral Residency Announcement and Instructions for 2022-23 (PDF)