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Postdoctoral Fellowship in Clinical Psychology & Psychological Assessment

Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School

Department of Psychiatry

2013-2014

The Massachusetts General Hospital – Harvard Medical School Psychology Training Program invites applications for a one-year, full-time, Postdoctoral Fellowship in clinical psychology emphasizing psychological assessment. The fellowship is organized within the MGH Psychological Evaluation and Research Laboratory (PEaRL), a multi-faceted clinical assessment and research program serving adults with complex psychiatric and medical conditions. The fellowship focuses on advanced training in personality assessment, clinical psychology, and assessment research, but also offers supervised psychotherapy training and a range of didactic opportunities. Fellows primarily engage in supervised psychological assessment with adult psychiatric and medical patients. Through these evaluations Fellows gain in-depth supervised experience in all phases of psychological assessment (test administration, scoring, data integration, report writing and feedback) and interdisciplinary consultation. Fellows also acquire significant research training through active involvement in ongoing projects in test development, scale validation, and treatment outcome monitoring. Research training includes mentoring in writing for publication and conference presentations. Fellows are expected to possess an excellent professional demeanor along with strong clinical, research, and writing skills. Individuals with advanced data analytic skills are encouraged to apply. Applicants who have graduated with a PhD or PsyD from an APA-accredited program are eligible to apply for this position, which begins on July 1st, 2013. Application review begins on January 18, 2013 and will continue until the position is filled. Applicants should send a letter of interest, official graduate school transcripts, curriculum vitae, three letters of reference, two psychological assessment reports and relevant research papers to:

Mark A. Blais, Psy. D.,

Director, Psychological Evaluation and Research Laboratory

One Bowdoin Square 702

Boston, MA 02114-2919

Application material or questions can be e-mailed to mblais@partners.org

This one year full-time position includes salary, health benefits and a vacation package.

Please visit our PEaRL web site for additional program information:

http://www.massgeneral.org/psychiatry/research/researchlab.aspx?id=1410