Psychologist Resident

Psychologist Resident

Requirements

• At the time of start, doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology from an APA accredited university AND completion of a one-year internship in Clinical Psychology.
• You must be eligible for licensure as a psychologist in Oregon upon completion of residency.
• Possession of psychology licensure in State of Oregon or license eligibility.

Responsibilities

• Administers, scores and interprets standardized psychological tests to evaluate intellectual, personality, social functioning, and violence predictors of youth.
• Integrates test results, behavioral observations, youth interview data, and collateral data from others to form diagnosis and make treatment recommendations.
• Writes reports of findings and recommendations for diagnosis, treatment, or discharge that can be used by the youth, family, and youth correctional facility multi-disciplinary team (MDT).
• Provides input from psychological assessment to the youth’s multi-disciplinary team.
• Provides assistance with specific youth’s behavior management planning including developing behavioral management plans.
• Provides assistance with milieu management planning for individual youth.
• Provides assistance to youth to help them understand and modify their behavior.
• Works with and through youth correctional facility multi-disciplinary team to support positive youth behavior.
• Serves as a resource to staff on correctional and behavioral treatment topics.
• Attends regularly scheduled clinical supervision with a licensed psychologist two (2) hours per week.
• All written work will be reviewed and co-signed by licensed psychologist.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience writing comprehensive psychological evaluations.
• Experience administering and interpreting personality testing.
• Experience administering and interpreting intellectual assessments with children and adolescents.
• Experience with advanced mental health diagnoses.