The Psychology Postdoctoral Training Program
at Cambridge Health Alliance
The Postdoctoral Fellowship at Cambridge Health Alliance is a full-time,
clinical fellowship, with resulting certificates in Neuropsychology
(adult neuropsychology track) or Clinical Psychology (all other
tracks). Trainees are eligible for appointment as a Clinical Fellow
at the Harvard Medical School, which provides the appointee with
access to university libraries, athletic facilities, and other benefits.
Most Fellows have reported that the fellowship requires about 40-50
hours per week. All fellows receive four weeks of vacation, and
one week of conference time. Most fellowships are full time for
twelve months, from August 31 to August 30. Fellowships in Neuropsychology,
the Victims of Violence Program, and the Program for Psychotherapy
are two years in duration. Stipends are expected to be $31,250 per
year. Health insurance and other benefits are available to fellows
as employees of Cambridge Health Alliance.
How the Fellowship is Structured
The Clinical Psychology Training Program prepares Psychology Fellows
in clinical psychology to understand and treat persons suffering
with a broad spectrum of emotional distress. Using a scholar-practitioner
model, our curriculum emphasizes a biopsychosocial approach to the
understanding of people and values the use of psychotherapy and
assessment. Our talented and multidisciplinary faculty teaches fellows
in a variety of specialty areas through didactics and comprehensive
individual and group supervision. With close faculty-trainee interaction,
we provide a solid grounding in treatment and assessment that take
into account ethnic and cultural influences. We also teach fellows
to integrate a variety of treatment modalities while working with
persons with an array of psychological problems, including persons
diagnosed with major mental illness and severe personality disorders.
At Cambridge Health Alliance, the education of psychologists occurs
in multidisciplinary settings. A distinctive feature of our program
is that Psychology Fellows can pursue a wide variety of individual
specialty interests in the context of a Fellowship program that
emphasizes growth as a professional clinical psychologist. All Fellows
meet together weekly in a Professional Development Seminar, which
includes such topics as providing supervision, teaching in both
medical and academic settings, writing for publication, obtaining
grants and conducting research, licensing procedures and legal and
ethical issues for the psychologist. Fellows are evaluated by supervisors
and training directors twice yearly, and the program follows CHA's
due process and grievance procedures.
We generally place fellows in one of the eight options currently
available. The applicant must select and apply for one or more of
the following options:
Option I: Adult Neuropsychology (two years).
Option II: Clinical Psychology (Behavioral Medicine Program).
Option III: Clinical Psychology (Child and Adolescent Acute
Services). Fellows rotate between the Child Assessment Unit (4 months),
the Adolescent Assessment Unit (4 months), and the Child and Adult
Psychiatric Emergency Service (4 months).
Option IV: Clinical Psychology (Adult Psychotherapy and
Psychological Assessment - one year).
Option V: Clinical Psychology (Program for Psychotherapy
- two years).
Option VI: Clinical Psychology (Victims of Violence Program
- two years).
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