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The NYU Child Study Center (CSC) hosts the Specialty Track in Child and Adolescent Psychology offered by the NYU-Bellevue Clinical Psychology Internship Program. Part of the Division of Child Psychiatry within the Department of Psychiatry of the NYU School of Medicine, the CSC is a center for training, research, education, outreach, and clinical service delivery dedicated to the understanding, prevention, and treatment of child and adolescent mental health, behavioral, and learning problems. The faculty is committed to empirically demonstrated assessment and treatment methodologies, and to evaluating treatment outcome.
The Specialty Track in Child and Adolescent Psychology was initiated in the 1997-1998 training year and has become a vital internship opportunity for interns who wish to pursue specialized training in clinical child and adolescent psychology. The program combines the assets of the NYU Medical Center, Child Study Center, and Bellevue Hospital Center to offer concentrated training with children, adolescents, young adults and families in both inpatient and outpatient settings.
Child and adolescent specialty track interns will be assigned, in consultation with the training director and track coordinator, to three four-month rotations, which will include an inpatient experience (either the Child Inpatient or Adolescent Inpatient Psychiatry Unit at Bellevue), and two rotations to be determined based upon each intern’s particular training interests and needs. Interns will be on rotation four mornings a week while on the inpatient unit and three mornings a week while on the other two rotations. The fourth and fifth mornings will be spent at the Child Study Center. Fridays throughout the year interns will attend a case conference followed by grand rounds. The alternate day at the Child Study Center will be used to conduct diagnostic evaluations, provide opportunities for school consultation, as well as customized experiences based on intern interests.
During afternoons and early evenings, child and adolescent specialty track interns:
- Treat outpatient cases with internalizing and externalizing disorders.
- Conduct neuropsychological and/or educational testing protocols.
- Function as co-therapist for specialized group therapy programs.
- Attend specialized afternoon seminars and individual supervision.
- Evaluate and treat adults.
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