Position Title: Clinical Psychologist 

Schedule: 40 hours/week, Monday-Friday, Teleworking Elegible, No Nights, No work on Government Holidays 

Field of Study: Clinical Psychology 

Overall Position Summary and Objectives: The position will independently provide support services to satisfy the overall operational objectives of the National Institute of Mental Health.

Statement of Work Details: 

• Recruit and screen patients for the projects which focus on children with extremely severe, impairing irritability and their families.
• Conduct structured and semi-structured interviews with probands and parents of probands.
• Provide clinical support to patients and families throughout the time that they are participating in research protocols.
• Provide structured psychotherapy in the form of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT).
• Conduct clinical ratings during outpatient treatment studies and longitudinal clinical studies.
• Administer and interpret neuropsychological assessments to probands and family members as part of research protocols.
• Provide family support and crisis management services as needed.
• Provide referral to appropriate NIH resources and community services, when indicated.
• Participate in the planning and execution of clinical research in the capacity of clinical support staff.
• Administer and score a wide range of complex structured and semi-structured interviews (such as SCID, the K-SADS and many others) to the child and adolescent probands and the parents of the probands.
• Conduct screening/baseline evaluations in collaboration with staff.
• Conduct preliminary evaluation of potential probands through extensive telephone interviewing of parent, review of medical records, consultation with treating professionals, and consultation with NIMH medical staff, leading to acceptance for on site evaluation or rejection with referral if indicated.
• Interface with schools on novel recruitment projects; meet with public school personnel and staff on a regular basis during recruitment periods to ensure participation in research; meet with school personnel to determine suitability of research participation within the schools.
• Provide informational sessions to parent groups, students, teachers and counselors.
• Write and comprise information and consent forms to present to schools.
• Write, research and comprise information in accordance with the privacy policy within the private schools targeted in the DC area; meet with private school personnel and staff during the recruitment process.
• Perform screening evaluations of potential research subjects using structured and semi structured testing methods.
• Conduct patient and volunteer follow-up evaluations and track patients through longitudinal studies.

Deliverables: 

• Work products and documents related to recruiting and screening patients; conducting semi-structured clinical interviews in patient research studies as well as outpatients and research volunteers; providing clinical support to patients and families.
• Work products and documents related to providing cognitive behavioral therapy to patients; conducting clinical ratings during outpatient treatment studies and longitudinal clinical studies; administering and interpreting neuropsychological assessments; providing family support and crisis management services; providing referral to appropriate NIH resources and community services.
• Work products and documents related to participating in the planning and execution of clinical research; administering and scoring a wide range of complex structured and semi structured interviews; conducting screening/baseline evaluations in collaboration with staff.
• Work products and documents related to preparing oral/written feedback to participants and their parents; developing and maintaining research protocol records; interfacing with schools on novel recruitment projects; meeting with public school personnel and staff; providing informational sessions to parent groups, students, teachers and counselors.
• Work products and documents related to providing consultation regarding study design and psychological instruments; performing screening evaluations of potential research subjects; participating in patient and volunteer meetings and recruitment efforts for protocols.

Certifications and Licenses: 

• PhD in Clinical Psychology and 6 years experience 

Field of Study: 

• Clincial Psychology

Software: 

• Computer skills to include MS Office Suite 

Skills:

• Knowledge of computer database systems and understanding of pediatric neuropsychiatric disroders and research design
• Familiarity with clinicla research as well as cognitive behavioral therapy