Center for Behavioral Health Post-Doctoral Fellow

The University of Missouri St. Louis - Center for Behavioral Health

Location: 12837 Flushing Meadows Dr., Suite 220, Town & Country, MO 63131

The University of Missouri St. Louis - Center for Behavioral Health is among the largest psychological assessment practices in Missouri and is considered to be the primary provider of psychological evaluation services in the St. Louis region. For over 40 years, CBH has been dedicated to providing high-quality, timely, and grant-funded psychological services to children and adolescents - especially those who would not otherwise have access to professional mental health care. Our programs remove financial barriers and serve families across the St. Louis-metropolitan area through several no-cost evaluation initiatives addressing a wide range of behavioral and emotional concerns.

The Center maintains strong referral relationships with more than 60 community partners including state agencies, school districts, outpatient and inpatient mental health facilities, and primary care providers.

The UMSL Center for Behavioral Health has offered postdoctoral fellowship training experiences for over fifteen years. It is a point of pride for CBH to train future generations of psychologists in cutting edge assessment approaches and gold standard interventions. CBH fellows develop considerable professional skills. Alumni of the fellowship have gone on to hold positions in many settings including medical schools, other academic settings, counseling centers, inpatient facilities, and outpatient mental health centers, including CBH. Being housed at a university, the training environment is rich. In addition to the postdoctoral fellowship, CBH trains graduate students and psychology interns from APA-accredited training programs. Fellows have access to many resources including the university's library system and an extensive in-house assessment library with hundreds of measures. Further, fellows participate in trainings offered by seasoned psychologists at our Center and by other experts in the local and national communities.

Postdoctoral fellows at CBH conduct a wide variety of evaluations and provide outpatient therapy services to children, adolescents, and/or adults. Assessments include comprehensive evaluations of children, adolescents, and adults with severe emotional or psychiatric disturbances, forensic parenting competency evaluations, violence risk assessments, psychosexual evaluations, and evaluations of learning and attention disorders. Our clients come from urban, suburban, and rural areas, making the postdoctoral fellowship abundant in opportunities to work with all populations.

The Center aims to stay at the forefront of assessment practice. The Therapeutic Assessment (TA) model informs the approach taken to evaluations at CBH and postdoctoral fellows have the opportunity to learn and practice it. CBH brought this model to the St. Louis area in 2015 when it began sponsoring trainings in TA by faculty of the Therapeutic Assessment Institute in Austin, TX. This collaboration also resulted in an article on the topic of incorporating TA into community clinics. Other specialties represented at the Center by faculty and staff psychologists include autism, gender identity, trauma, and evaluations of those who are court-involved, and fellows benefit from this knowledge through supervision and in-house grand rounds and other trainings. Further, should the fellow wish, CBH offers a specialty rotation in these areas mentioned. A generalist training experience is also available.

Completion of all requirements for the Ph.D./Psy.D. at an APA accredited Doctoral Training Program in Clinical or Counseling Psychology. Completion of an APA accredited internship in Clinical or Counseling Psychology.

Experience and formal coursework in the administration, scoring, and interpretation of intellectual, academic, and objective/projective personality testing of children and/or adults.

Experience and formal coursework in psychotherapy with children, adolescents, adults, couples, or families.

At least one year's experience in psychological testing and evaluation is preferred.

If you have questions regarding this position, please contact Dr. Deana Smith at deana.smith@umsl.edu.

Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States. The University will not sponsor applicants for this position for employment visas.

This position is eligible for University benefits. As part of your total compensation, the University offers a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental and vision plans, retirement, paid time off, short- and long-term disability, paid parental leave, paid caregiver leave, and educational fee discounts for all four UM System campuses. For additional information on University benefits, please visit the Faculty & Staff Benefits website at https://www.umsystem.edu/totalrewards/benefits.

Equal Employment Opportunity

The University of Missouri is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

To request ADA accommodations, please email the Office of Human Resources at umslhr@umsl.edu.