Yale Mental Health and Counseling (MHC) supports undergraduate, graduate, and professional students by providing individual and group psychotherapy as well as psychiatry services to a diverse, talented, and passionate student body of over 14,000 individuals. MHC employs over 30 clinicians consisting of LCSWs, Psychologists, and Psychiatrists and also provides high quality training to psychiatry residents, psychology post-docs, and post-MSW fellows. MHC is a vibrant and energetic environment that values collaboration and initiative and is looking for candidates who want to be an integral part of the Yale community.
The Clinical Psychologist provides, plans and coordinates individual therapy, group therapy, and couples therapy in Yale Mental Health and Counseling. They assess and diagnose mental illness, and provides psychological treatment for complex cases involving students with severe mental health concerns. They provide culturally competent treatment to patients of varied racial/ ethnic identities, socioeconomic backgrounds, and sexual/ gender identities. They administer and interpret psychological tests and develop and present written test results and analysis. Serve as liaison to patients, families, and clinical staff on issues and programs pertaining to psychological services. They serve as a liaison to Yale community and develop and deliver outreach programs to the Yale community. They adhere to psychology code of ethical conduct and abide by laws affecting the practice of psychology.
Additionally, the Clinical Psychologist provides supervision to trainees in the department as well as staff psychologists. Evaluate, assess and modify psychological treatment plans. Participate in the development of short and long-term patient treatment. Provide psychological services to patients of differing cultural backgrounds, identity configurations, and genders. Provide mental health emergency coverage. Participate in after-hours on call coverage in rotation. Assist in the development of materials for educational programs and seminars for professional staff. Interact with internal contacts such as patients, clinicians, social workers and other medical staff, administrators with regard to clinical programs and program development. Interact with external contacts such as outpatient therapists, residential treatment centers, and other mental health institutions.
Ability to design and implement workshops and outreach services designed to provide mental health education. 1. Provides clinical supervision to trainees as well as staff members. 2. Performs programmatic duties as directed by the Chief of Mental health and Counseling. 3. Plans, coordinates and implements individual, group, and couples’ therapy for students in University outpatient clinic. Provides family meetings as appropriate. 4. Conducts patient evaluations and assesses patients’ acceptability for psychotherapy programs and develops initial disposition planning. 5. Establishes positive relationships with patients in order to administer the appropriate treatment. 6. Manages and provides therapy for complex cases involving patients with significant mental health concerns. 7. Maintains patients’ charts and reports. 8. Participates in mental health 24-hour emergency coverage. 9. Provides educational and consultation services to undergraduate residential colleges and professional schools. 10. Provides mental health outreach to Yale community. 11. Develops materials for educational programs and seminars for professional staff. 12. Interacts with internal contacts such as patients, patients’ families, clinicians, medical staff, and administrators regarding treatment of individual patients and implementation of clinical programs. 13. Assesses and evaluates the purpose and value of psychological testing and treatment and recommends changes to treatment plans. Analyzes data and psychological testing results. 14. May perform other duties as assigned. Ph.D. in Clinical or Counseling Psychology or Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology and three years of experience providing clinical care post-licensure.
