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Counseling and Therapy Services, UNM Student
Health Center
is recruiting a full-time director for a professional staff position. The successful candidate will manage the clinical,
fiscal, and administrative operations of the unit. The director will develop,
implement and evaluate program to ensure quality of care. Coordinates
University and community outreach, oversees risk management issues, ensures
proper patient referral services and provides direct patient services.
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MINIMUM
QUALIFICATIONS:
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Doctorate
degree; at least 5 years of experience that is directly related to the
duties and responsibilities specified.
State of NM Licensed Psychologist,
or eligibility for NM licensure, as documented by out-of-state licensure.
If you are selected for this position, you will be required to present
official transcripts, certificates, licenses, etc. as verification of your
qualifications.
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PREFERRED
QUALIFICATIONS:
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- Experience:
- Providing mental health
services targeted for a large, culturally diverse, college student
population
- Providing care for
emergency and crisis intervention mental health services, including
suicidal patients and involuntary holds for patient safety
- Responding to third party
concerns regarding an individual's mental health
- Managing the day-to-day
operations of a student counseling service in a University setting
- Setting priorities for service
and boundaries for scope of care in a counseling service with limited
resources
- Creating and maintaining a
safe and welcoming counseling service for a diverse student
population including diversity of ideas, ethnicity, economic
backgrounds and sexual orientation
- Directly supervising
(hiring, firing, performance evaluations) an ethnically and gender
diverse team of at least six Master's level counselors
- Mentoring, training, and
encouraging professional development for a counseling team
- Setting policies and
procedures to encourage work-life balance in a resource limited work
environment.
- With conflict management
that includes mediating and facilitating win-win resolutions to
problems in a communication style that encourages collaboration and
consensus for decisions
- Successfully collaborating
with a University community while providing mental health services
- Successfully balancing
clinical and administrative work while managing a counseling service
- Marketing and promoting
mental health services to a student population
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For
further information: http://www3.unm.edu/fin/Posting/jobopenings.cfm?action=ViewThisOne&REQID=43889
Postdoctoral
Fellowships and Internships
Postdoctoral Fellowship — The Division of Prevention and Community
Research, Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine and
the Department of Psychology, Yale University invite applications for a two-year
postdoctoral fellowship beginning between July 1 and September 1, 2006 as
part of a NIDA-funded research training program focused on the prevention of
substance abuse. The individual will participate with other postdoctoral
fellows in a mentor-based training program with core faculty. The fellow in this position will be
involved in investigating (a) the relationship of behavioral, academic, and
psychological risk and protective factors to alcohol and other drug use in
youth with severe emotional and behavioral disorders and youth incarcerated
in a juvenile justice facility; and (b) individual trait characteristics, alcohol-related cognitions,
subjective alcohol responses, and social influences impacting college student
drinking and prevention programs designed to counter these risk factors. Competitive candidates will have a Ph.D. in
clinical, community, or counseling psychology and a strong research
background and interest in pursuing an academic career. Interested applicants
should forward a CV, representative manuscripts, statement of interests and
future goals, and three letters of recommendation to: David L. Snow, Ph.D., Director, Division of
Prevention and Community Research, Department of Psychiatry, Yale University
School of Medicine, 389 Whitney
Avenue, New Haven, CT 06511,
or email materials to david.snow@yale.edu.
The review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the
position is filled. Yale
University is an
Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Women and minority group
members are encouraged to apply.
POST-DOCTORAL
FELLOWSHIPS IN ALCOHOL RESEARCH – Rutgers University
has support for three new NIAAA-supported positions to train fellows for
careers in clinical and applied research.
Support for up to 3 years includes a stipend beginning at $36,996
depending on years since Ph.D., $1500 for conference travel, and
research-related expenses. Fellows
will participate actively in nosological studies, clinical trials, and health
services research, complete pilot projects, have opportunities for
professional publications and presentations, and prepare independent research
grants. Applicants must be US citizens
or permanent residents. Funding begins
July or September 1, 2006. Interested
applicants should send cover letter, vita and three letters of recommendation
to: Barbara S. McCrady, PhD, Center of Alcohol Studies,
Rutgers University, 607 Allison Road, Piscataway,
NJ, 08854-8001. Rutgers is
an equal opportunity employer.
Postdoctoral Fellowships
in Addiction Research
The
Department of Psychological Sciences at the University of Missouri-Columbia
(MU) has openings for up to three
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS IN ADDICTIONS RESEARCH. Faculty preceptors include: Lynne Cooper (drinking motives, alcohol and
high-risk sexual behavior, personality), Tom Piasecki (tobacco dependence and
withdrawal, alcohol X tobacco interaction, hangover), Ken Sher (etiological
processes in alcohol use disorders, comorbidity), Wendy
Slutske (behavioral genetics of alcoholism, antisocial
behavior disorders, and pathological gambling), Tim Trull (alcoholism and
personality, personality disorder comorbidity), Phil Wood (alcohol use and cognitive
development, quantitative methodology), Denis McCarthy (drinking motives, underage use, drinking and
driving), Bruce Bartholow (alcohol and social cognition, social
neuroscience), Dennis Miller (behavioral pharmacology of nicotine and other
drugs), and Matt Will (behavioral pharmacology of appetitive behavior including
eating and psychoactive substance use) . Postdoctoral research fellows
will undertake advanced training in addictions and pursue their own research
interests under the supervision of faculty sponsors. MU’s addiction
training is closely affiliated with the Midwest Alcoholism Research Center
(MARC) based at Washington University in St.
Louis (PI: Andrew Heath).
Postdoctoral fellows will have the opportunity to become involved with MARC
research activities in addition to those activities based on the MU
campus. Two positions are internally
funded and international candidates will be considered. The other position is
funded on an NIAAA Research Training
Grant, and the applicant must be a United States resident or citizen. Candidates must hold a Ph.D. or
other doctoral degree relevant to the study of the psychology of addiction.
These positions are for up to two years and start date is negotiable. Send vita, up to 5 representative reprints,
a cover letter describing your research interests and training goals, and 3
letters of reference to: Addiction Research Training, c/o Carol Waudby, Dept.
of Psychological Sciences, 200
S. 7th Street, University
of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211. Inquiries can be made to Ken
Sher, 573-882-4279, Email: SherK@missouri.edu. The University of Missouri-Columbia does
not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin,
ancestry, sex, age, disability, status as disabled veteran, or veteran of Vietnam
era.
Internships
The Salem VA Medical Center pre-doctoral
internship will be accepting applications for the 2007-2008 year beginning in
August. We offer training using a primarily cognitive-behavioral model, with
major rotations in the areas of Substance Abuse, Post-Traumatic Stress
Disorder, Behavioral Medicine, and Outpatient Psychological Services. The
substance abuse rotation provides exposure to a full continuum of
evidence-based treatment services ranging from secondary prevention and early
intervention to residential treatment for substance use disorders that
integrates primarily cognitive-behavioral models. Minor rotations in
motivational interviewing as well as substance use research also are
available. Clinical research is encouraged throughout the year. The Salem VA is located in
beautiful southwestern Virginia, in the
heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Please
refer to our training website at www.avapl.org.
The site will be updated in July-August of 2006.
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