Hi,
I’m a rising 4th year doctoral student in clinical psychology and just finished applying to externship sites. I’m spiraling a bit because I am recognizing I might have set myself up a bit for a rough road ahead.
My past clinical experience pre doctorate include mostly work with adults. I worked at a research lab that focused on child and family work, and when entering graduate school I worked with a mix of adults and child/adolescents with anxiety and mood disorders, I wanted a solid training in CBT/ExRP as well as psychodiagnostic assessment experiences and the site was wonderful for that. I have also completed 8 integrated neuropsychological reports (4 adult/4 child). For my 3rd year I went the inpatient adult route because of the programs focus on a modality I wanted training in and ny strong interest in interdisciplinary work.
My goal is to work in pediatric integrative integrative behavioral health, more specifically in medical inpatient. I naively thought I could wait until internship to get more training in this area and therefore only applied to 2 pediatric IBH sites for next years externship cycle, the remainder of the sites I applied to are eating disorder and adult IBH/oncology sites. It was always my goal to broaden my training before internship, but I’m very much noticing that based on what I have heard it’s going to be extremely hard to break into the IBH peds world for internship should I not receive offers from these two sites for my 4th year externship. I know there is always still post doc but I don’t get the impression it would be any easier at that point. I am also bound to NYC because of my kids/husband, which doesn’t make it less competitive. I realize I’m jumping ahead here but I’m in a bit of a spiral and would love advice from people who may have more knowledge of this. I even considered adding on a year should it not work out but I DEF don’t want to do that
I’m going to speak to my advisor and our DCT next week too but this forum seems incredibly helpful for these things.
Thank you so much!
I’m a rising 4th year doctoral student in clinical psychology and just finished applying to externship sites. I’m spiraling a bit because I am recognizing I might have set myself up a bit for a rough road ahead.
My past clinical experience pre doctorate include mostly work with adults. I worked at a research lab that focused on child and family work, and when entering graduate school I worked with a mix of adults and child/adolescents with anxiety and mood disorders, I wanted a solid training in CBT/ExRP as well as psychodiagnostic assessment experiences and the site was wonderful for that. I have also completed 8 integrated neuropsychological reports (4 adult/4 child). For my 3rd year I went the inpatient adult route because of the programs focus on a modality I wanted training in and ny strong interest in interdisciplinary work.
My goal is to work in pediatric integrative integrative behavioral health, more specifically in medical inpatient. I naively thought I could wait until internship to get more training in this area and therefore only applied to 2 pediatric IBH sites for next years externship cycle, the remainder of the sites I applied to are eating disorder and adult IBH/oncology sites. It was always my goal to broaden my training before internship, but I’m very much noticing that based on what I have heard it’s going to be extremely hard to break into the IBH peds world for internship should I not receive offers from these two sites for my 4th year externship. I know there is always still post doc but I don’t get the impression it would be any easier at that point. I am also bound to NYC because of my kids/husband, which doesn’t make it less competitive. I realize I’m jumping ahead here but I’m in a bit of a spiral and would love advice from people who may have more knowledge of this. I even considered adding on a year should it not work out but I DEF don’t want to do that
I’m going to speak to my advisor and our DCT next week too but this forum seems incredibly helpful for these things.
Thank you so much!