Clinical Rotations
CLINICAL ENVIRONMENT HIGHLIGHTS
Adolescent Acute Psychiatric Unit:
- Supervisor: Stephen Deci, MD
- 10-bed inpatient unit at Chestnut Ridge Center
- Interprofessional team with nursing, social work, psychology, other trainees, etc.
- Participation in multimodal treatment, including therapeutic interventions and psychiatric med management
Child & Adolescent Outpatient Therapies:
Broad based outpatient treatment, plus specialty training as available:
- Multidisciplinary Therapy Clinic (MDT)
- ReACT – trauma treatment
- PREVENT – SUD prevention and treatment
- Parent Child Interactional Therapy (PCIT)
- Parent Management Training (PMT)
- ERP for OCD
- CBIT for Tics/Tourette’s
Child and Family Multidisciplinary Training Clinic:
- Supervisors: Bridget Skidmore, MD; Maria Khan, PhD and Jenna Mosley Lohnes LICSW
- Location: Chestnut Ridge Center
- MDT clinic, is a team-based, observational and experiential treatment clinic for treating complex children and families.
- Offers opportunities to work with psychiatrists, social workers, psychologists and practicum students from all three disciplines.
- MDT trainees work under direct observation through the one-way mirror
- Weekly half-day clinic, with fellows providing direct care and having opportunity to observe colleagues providing direct care, with case discussion as well as real-time behind-the-glass learning
Resilience After Complex Trauma (ReACT):
- Supervisor: Maria Khan, PhD
- Location: Chestnut Ridge Center
- CAP1’s will attend a weekly one-hour case conference to discuss care for children (ranging in age from 2-17) and families who have experienced complex trauma and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs).
- Fellows will gain exposure to a host of complex difficulties including but not limited to, PTSD and symptoms of traumatic stress, anxiety and mood disorders, early childhood abuse and neglect, impact of caregiver substance use and substance exposure in-utero, foster care placement difficulties, loss and traumatic grief, emotional and behavioral difficulties related to traumatic experiences, attachment and parent-child relationship difficulties, parenting challenges and intergenerational trauma/attachment-related concerns, and medical trauma.
- Fellows will learn evidence-based trauma-focused strategies including trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (TF-CBT), while receiving support through individual reflective supervision as well didactic learning and multi-disciplinary group case consultation.
Pediatrics - Subspecialty Clinics:
Our Child Division faculty and staff are involved in a growing number of specialty clinics. Some are already developed into elective opportunities, while others can be developed into an elective upon fellow interest.
- Pediatric GI Clinic
- Pediatric Nephrology Clinic
- Pediatric Cleft Palate Clinic
- Pediatric Cystic Fibrosis Clinic
- Pediatric Endocrinology Clinic
- Family Weight Management Clinic/Adolescent Bariatrics
- Pediatric Headache Clinic
- Behavioral Sleep
- EDIT Clinic for treatment of eating disorders
- Pediatric Consultation/Liaison