APPIC Program Match Number: 150912 Number of Internship Positions: 4 Inpatient Consultation/Liaison A central clinical experience for all Pediatric Psychology Track interns is the consultation/liaison service. Inpatient consultations reflect the diversity of the Nationwide Children’s Hospital’s general pediatric mandate and are received from various services, for example: Burn/Surgery, Hematology/Oncology, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Pulmonary, Gastroenterology, Neurology, NICU/PICU, Cardiology and Hospital Pediatrics. As one of the largest consultation services in the hospital, the Department of Psychology completes more than 2,000 inpatient consultations per year. Inpatient consultation often involves collaboration with different disciplines including social work, physical therapy, occupational therapy, child life, psychiatry. Faculty members distribute consults so that over the course of the year, interns are exposed to patients of different ages and presenting problems. Continuity experiences are offered so interns can follow patients throughout their entire training year (i.e., hematology/oncology). Interns manage approximately 100-150 inpatient medical consultations during the course of the year and have opportunities to be involved with several multidisciplinary teams. All interns will be involved with the oncology team for 12 months. Each intern either completes a 12 month experience with another long term service, for example, the sickle cell/pulmonary team, NICU team or Hospital Pediatrics. Interns will then complete four 3-month mini-rotations involving lower volume services which may include GI/feeding, hematology/cardiology, hospital pediatrics/renal and neurology. Inpatient consultation requests may involve pain management strategies, diagnostic assessments, behavioral interventions to improve disease self-management, intensive feeding or facilitating patient and family adjustment to a medical diagnosis. Outpatient Therapy Interns maintain an outpatient treatment caseload of approximately 9-11 outpatients. Referrals are varied and include children and adolescents with difficulties secondary to chronic illness, chronic pain, functional disorders, behavioral problems, adherence issues and family difficulties. Interns maintain treatment of 2 outpatients within our biofeedback, feeding, and type 1 diabetes programs. Our biofeedback program includes training seminars and utilizes multiple biofeedback modalities. Our outpatient feeding therapy program utilizes evidence-based behavioral strategies to work on quickly increasing variety of foods and decreasing use of supplemental formulas or tube feedings. Additionally, interns will be involved in treating children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes with focus on increasing adherence to treatment regimen. The remainder of the cases will be picked up from inpatient consultation or to address intern interests and needs. Psychological Assessment Pediatric Psychology Track interns complete a year-long assessment experience that will involve the completion of 5 to 7 reports based. Interns will be able to express preference for doing psychoeducational/ADHD assessment in the Psychology Clinic or ADHD assessments in the Integrated Primary Care Clinics. Interns will also present one assessment case in the Nuts and Bolts group and give the other interns an opportunity to practice peer supervision. Psychoeducational evaluations have referral questions which typically include school placement, developmental delays, behavioral problems, and the effects of chronic illness on cognitive and emotional functioning. All psychological assessment experiences are supervised by our pediatric psychologists. Supervision Interns receive both individual and group supervision from pediatric psychology faculty members specific to their activities. Outpatient bi-monthly group supervisions include biofeedback, feeding, and diabetes. Didactics Didactic experiences in the Pediatric Psychology track are both formal and informal. The intern will be expected to complete readings in pediatric psychology, especially as they pertain to specific pediatric populations. Readings will be chosen in consultation with clinical supervisors. In addition to internship-wide formal didactic activities, the Pediatric Psychology intern will participate in weekly Pediatric Psychology Seminars which are designed to introduce Pediatric Psychology faculty and trainees to current research, clinical, professional development, and ethical topics in pediatric psychology. Also, interns participate in weekly Clinical Service Hour when various medical professionals from within the hospital present on the etiology, treatment, and psychosocial impact of a wide range of pediatric health conditions. The Pediatric Psychology interns also have opportunity to participate in regularly scheduled meetings with various multi-disciplinary teams within the hospital. These may include but are not limited to weekly Rehabilitation Unit rounds, weekly PICU rounds, bi-monthly Oncology Psychosocial Rounds, etc. Many additional educational opportunities exist within out hospital setting including Medical Grand Rounds, Tumor Board, Clinical Research Seminars, Schwartz Center rounds, and the Multicultural Brown Bag Lunch Series. Hours Pediatric psychology interns work five days per week, although rotating responsibility for coverage of weekend and holiday consultations is necessary (approximately one weekend every 5 weeks). Hours worked per week vary, but are generally 40-50, depending on case load, special interests, and consultation coverage.
Pediatric Psychology Track Sample Weekly Schedule
Activity
Hours
Inpatient Consultations
8-11
Outpatient Psychotherapy/ Medical Clinics
8-10
Psychological Evaluations
3-4
Group Supervision
3
Individual Supervision
3-4
Educational Seminars
3-4
Report Writing, Clinical Notes, Phone Calls
10
Internship/ Preceptor Meetings
1
Hours Weekly
40-50
Pediatric Psychology/Neuropsychology Track Faculty Even though faculty are listed below in categories, it should be noted that all faculty take part in each intern’s training to different degrees, including clinical supervision, mentoring, and/or didactic training.
Pediatric Psychology Pediatric Neuropsychology Research
Jaclyn Aldrich, PhD Amy Baughcum, PhD Abby Caserta, PhD Eric Butter, PhD Cathy Butz, PhD Eileen Chaves, PhD Jennie David, PhD Anne Dawson, PhD Ashley Debeljak, PsyD Nicole Dempster, PhD Rob Dempster, PhD Chloe’ Freeman, PsyD Lauren Garbacz, PhD Molly Gardner, PhD Shannon Gillespie, PsyD Alana Goldstein-Leever, PhD Kristen Gsanger Trott, PhD Amy Hahn, PhD Jennifer Hansen-Moore, PhD Allison Hatley-Cotter, PhD Caroline Hodgson, PhD Jessica Hoehn, PhD Ariana Hoet, PhD Cody Hostutler, PhD Ashley Kroon-Van Diest, PhD Will Leever, PhD Kathy Lemanek, PhD Hannah McKillop, PhD Erin McTiernan, PsyD Kara Monnin, PhD Whitney Raglin-Bignall, PhD Heather Richard, PhD Rose Schroedl, PhD Megan Schaefer, PhD Adina Seidenfeld, PhD Micheline Silva, PhD Tyanna Snider, PsyD Moneika Sutton, PhD Sean Tams, PhD Natalie Truba, PhD Lindsey Vater, PsyD Sarah Verlee, PhD Andrea Wojtowicz, PhD Heather Lehmkuhl-Yardley, PhD Tammi Young-Saleme, PhD
Doug Bodin, PhD, ABPP Jennifer Cass, PhD, ABPP Andrea Coppens, PhD Jacqueline Doxie-King, PhD Christine Koterba, PhD, ABPP Kelly McNally, PhD, ABPP Ari Rabkin, PhD
Canice Crerand, PhD Cindy Gerhardt, PhD Kristen Hoskinson, PhD Jamie Jackson, PhD Laura Mackner, PhD H.Gerry Taylor, PhD, ABPP Kathy Vannatta, PhD
APPIC Program Match Number: 150912
Number of Internship Positions: 4
Inpatient Consultation/Liaison
A central clinical experience for all Pediatric Psychology Track interns is the consultation/liaison service. Inpatient consultations reflect the diversity of the Nationwide Children’s Hospital’s general pediatric mandate and are received from various services, for example: Burn/Surgery, Hematology/Oncology, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Pulmonary, Gastroenterology, Neurology, NICU/PICU, Cardiology and Hospital Pediatrics. As one of the largest consultation services in the hospital, the Department of Psychology completes more than 2,000 inpatient consultations per year. Inpatient consultation often involves collaboration with different disciplines including social work, physical therapy, occupational therapy, child life, psychiatry.
Faculty members distribute consults so that over the course of the year, interns are exposed to patients of different ages and presenting problems. Continuity experiences are offered so interns can follow patients throughout their entire training year (i.e., hematology/oncology). Interns manage approximately 100-150 inpatient medical consultations during the course of the year and have opportunities to be involved with several multidisciplinary teams.
All interns will be involved with the oncology team for 12 months. Each intern either completes a 12 month experience with another long term service, for example, the sickle cell/pulmonary team, NICU team or Hospital Pediatrics. Interns will then complete four 3-month mini-rotations involving lower volume services which may include GI/feeding, hematology/cardiology, hospital pediatrics/renal and neurology.
Inpatient consultation requests may involve pain management strategies, diagnostic assessments, behavioral interventions to improve disease self-management, intensive feeding or facilitating patient and family adjustment to a medical diagnosis.
Outpatient Therapy
Interns maintain an outpatient treatment caseload of approximately 9-11 outpatients. Referrals are varied and include children and adolescents with difficulties secondary to chronic illness, chronic pain, functional disorders, behavioral problems, adherence issues and family difficulties.
Interns maintain treatment of 2 outpatients within our biofeedback, feeding, and type 1 diabetes programs. Our biofeedback program includes training seminars and utilizes multiple biofeedback modalities. Our outpatient feeding therapy program utilizes evidence-based behavioral strategies to work on quickly increasing variety of foods and decreasing use of supplemental formulas or tube feedings. Additionally, interns will be involved in treating children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes with focus on increasing adherence to treatment regimen. The remainder of the cases will be picked up from inpatient consultation or to address intern interests and needs.
Psychological Assessment
Pediatric Psychology Track interns complete a year-long assessment experience that will involve the completion of 5 to 7 reports based. Interns will be able to express preference for doing psychoeducational/ADHD assessment in the Psychology Clinic or ADHD assessments in the Integrated Primary Care Clinics. Interns will also present one assessment case in the Nuts and Bolts group and give the other interns an opportunity to practice peer supervision. Psychoeducational evaluations have referral questions which typically include school placement, developmental delays, behavioral problems, and the effects of chronic illness on cognitive and emotional functioning.
All psychological assessment experiences are supervised by our pediatric psychologists.
Supervision
Interns receive both individual and group supervision from pediatric psychology faculty members specific to their activities. Outpatient bi-monthly group supervisions include biofeedback, feeding, and diabetes.
Didactics
Didactic experiences in the Pediatric Psychology track are both formal and informal. The intern will be expected to complete readings in pediatric psychology, especially as they pertain to specific pediatric populations. Readings will be chosen in consultation with clinical supervisors.
In addition to internship-wide formal didactic activities, the Pediatric Psychology intern will participate in weekly Pediatric Psychology Seminars which are designed to introduce Pediatric Psychology faculty and trainees to current research, clinical, professional development, and ethical topics in pediatric psychology. Also, interns participate in weekly Clinical Service Hour when various medical professionals from within the hospital present on the etiology, treatment, and psychosocial impact of a wide range of pediatric health conditions.
The Pediatric Psychology interns also have opportunity to participate in regularly scheduled meetings with various multi-disciplinary teams within the hospital. These may include but are not limited to weekly Rehabilitation Unit rounds, weekly PICU rounds, bi-monthly Oncology Psychosocial Rounds, etc.
Many additional educational opportunities exist within out hospital setting including Medical Grand Rounds, Tumor Board, Clinical Research Seminars, Schwartz Center rounds, and the Multicultural Brown Bag Lunch Series.
Hours
Pediatric psychology interns work five days per week, although rotating responsibility for coverage of weekend and holiday consultations is necessary (approximately one weekend every 5 weeks). Hours worked per week vary, but are generally 40-50, depending on case load, special interests, and consultation coverage.
Pediatric Psychology/Neuropsychology Track Faculty
Even though faculty are listed below in categories, it should be noted that all faculty take part in each intern’s training to different degrees, including clinical supervision, mentoring, and/or didactic training.
Pediatric Psychology Track Sample Weekly Schedule
Activity
Hours
Inpatient Consultations
8-11
Outpatient Psychotherapy/ Medical Clinics
8-10
Psychological Evaluations
3-4
Group Supervision
3
Individual Supervision
Educational Seminars
Report Writing, Clinical Notes, Phone Calls
10
Internship/ Preceptor Meetings
1
Hours Weekly
40-50
Jaclyn Aldrich, PhD
Amy Baughcum, PhD
Abby Caserta, PhD
Eric Butter, PhD
Cathy Butz, PhD
Eileen Chaves, PhD
Jennie David, PhD
Anne Dawson, PhD
Ashley Debeljak, PsyD
Nicole Dempster, PhD
Rob Dempster, PhD
Chloe’ Freeman, PsyD
Lauren Garbacz, PhD
Molly Gardner, PhD
Shannon Gillespie, PsyD
Alana Goldstein-Leever, PhD
Kristen Gsanger Trott, PhD
Amy Hahn, PhD
Jennifer Hansen-Moore, PhD
Allison Hatley-Cotter, PhD
Caroline Hodgson, PhD
Jessica Hoehn, PhD
Ariana Hoet, PhD
Cody Hostutler, PhD
Ashley Kroon-Van Diest, PhD
Will Leever, PhD
Kathy Lemanek, PhD
Hannah McKillop, PhD
Erin McTiernan, PsyD
Kara Monnin, PhD
Whitney Raglin-Bignall, PhD
Heather Richard, PhD
Rose Schroedl, PhD
Megan Schaefer, PhD
Adina Seidenfeld, PhD
Micheline Silva, PhD
Tyanna Snider, PsyD
Moneika Sutton, PhD
Sean Tams, PhD
Natalie Truba, PhD
Lindsey Vater, PsyD
Sarah Verlee, PhD
Andrea Wojtowicz, PhD
Heather Lehmkuhl-Yardley, PhD
Tammi Young-Saleme, PhD
Doug Bodin, PhD, ABPP
Jennifer Cass, PhD, ABPP
Andrea Coppens, PhD
Jacqueline Doxie-King, PhD
Christine Koterba, PhD, ABPP
Kelly McNally, PhD, ABPP
Ari Rabkin, PhD
Canice Crerand, PhD
Cindy Gerhardt, PhD
Kristen Hoskinson, PhD
Jamie Jackson, PhD
Laura Mackner, PhD
H.Gerry Taylor, PhD, ABPP
Kathy Vannatta, PhD