Psychology Post-Doctoral Fellowship
Applications Due: Dec 1, 2024
JFK Partners—Colorado’s University Center of Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD) and Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities (LEND) is the major training facility for the Autism and Developmental Disabilities Program. The training emphasizes an interdisciplinary approach to research, assessment, and intervention, family support, service coordination, and community integration to meet the needs of persons with developmental disabilities. Development of disciplinary and interdisciplinary expertise, leadership and consultation skills and research as well as clinical growth are the goals of the postdoctoral training program. The Psychology Post-Doctoral Fellow participates in interdisciplinary evaluations, interventions and consultation with a wide range of persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) with an emphasis on working with individuals with ASD across the lifespan. The fellow also attends seminars offered at JFK Partners and in the Department of Developmental Pediatrics through Children’s Hospital Colorado, and is expected to pursue a research project in developmental disabilities.
Psychology Internship
Applications Due: Nov 1, 2024
The Internship in Clinical Psychology Program at the University of Colorado School of Medicine was established in 1952 and has been continuously APA accredited since 1956*. The internship program moved to its new academic home in the Department of Family Medicine in 2012 under the departmental leadership of Chairman Frank Verloin deGruy III, M.D., M.S.F.M.
The CU School of Medicine on the Anschutz Medical Campus is home to 85 psychologists who hold faculty appointments in the departments of Family Medicine, Pediatrics, Medicine, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry. The rich training opportunities in the psychology internship program are the result of interdisciplinary and multi-institutional collaborative efforts that include faculty members from the School of Public Health, other CU system institutions, including the University of Colorado at Boulder, and the National Jewish Health Center.
A number of clinical volunteer faculty members also contribute to the service, teaching, and scholarly missions of the School of Medicine through their dedication to the psychology internship program. All psychologists with primary supervisory responsibilities are graduates of APA accredited internships.
Psychology Externship
Applications Due: TBD
Externs will engage in a 15-hour/week program of academic and clinical experiences in evaluation, diagnosis, and development and provision of evidence-based interventions for children and adolescents with autism and/or other developmental disabilities. Supervision is provided by Licensed Clinical Psychologists Judy Reaven, PhD and Audrey Blakeley Smith, PhD as well as post-doctoral fellows in psychology.
Externship experiences include:
- Highly supervised work on one of our assessment teams
- Training and supervision in the Facing Your Fears group therapy
- Coursework in Leadership Dialogues
- Coursework in Screening and Assessment of Children/Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder
