Behavioral Psychology Outpatient Advanced Doctoral Externship Training Program

The program aim is to provide advanced doctoral students training opportunities in delivery of services to children, adolescents, and young adults and their caregivers/families. The focus is teaching students how to apply evidenced based caregiver training/family therapy strategies and develop case conceptualizations for children, adolescents, and/or young adults. Treatment modalities include individual, family, and opportunities for group therapy. Patients present with a broad range of behavioral, developmental, emotional, health, and learning areas of concern.

The Training Leadership consists of:

• Dr. Alicia Sullivan (Director of Training)
• Ms. Karen Janowiak (Training Coordinator)
• Ms. Keirra Winston (Training Project Specialist)

Additional Program Information

• General Information
• Application Guidelines
• Training Supervisors

Externship Positions

Please see below for clinics currently offering externship positions. Please note that opportunities for externship training in these clinics is subject to supervisor/resource availability and may vary by training year.

Child and Family Therapy Clinic Externship

The Child and Family Therapy (CFT) Clinic, directed by Dr. Gina Richman, offers an externship training experience in providing evidence-based interventions for children, adolescents and young adults and their families.

The CFT externship experience provides training in using a family approach to delivering evidence-based interventions. Externs receive clinical training addressing parent-child conflict, executive dysfunction (e.g., ADHD), behavioral concerns, anxiety, and emotional dysregulation. In addition, trainees will learn to successfully navigate an academic medical center and will consult with professionals within the hospital (e.g., psychiatrists and speech therapists) as well as community providers (e.g., pediatricians and teachers). Didactic training and supervision will be provided in foundational clinical skills, evidence-based modalities to support increased skill and flexibility with common presenting concerns, as well as professional development (e.g., obtaining an internship). Externs will be well equipped to provide individual and family therapy for a wide array of externalizing and internalizing concerns in childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood. Finally, externs will gain experience as clinical scientists administering assessment at the outset of care as well as standardized measures during treatment to monitor clinical progress and outcomes.

• CFT Externs work two days per week at our Columbia, Maryland office, (co-located with the APPIC approved Postdoctoral Fellowship Program) providing both on-site and telehealth treatment to patients and their families.
• CFT Extern required workdays include Monday and Wednesday to facilitate face-to-face supervision with a supervisor, observations and co-treatment of cases, participation in clinic meetings as well as cross-cohort trainings.
• CFT Extern Previous clinical experience should include:
  • Experience using CBT as a treatment approach (required)
  • Direct clinical hours with children and adolescents (required)
  • Direct clinical hours working with families (preferred but not required)

For questions or additional information, please call Keirra Winston, Training Project Specialist at 443-923-7523 or email Psychology@KennedyKrieger.org.