L@LIST.NIH.GOV] On Behalf Of Susan J. Spieker
Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 5:33 PM
To: SC-L@LIST.NIH.GOV
Subject: Opportunity: Postdoc in Early Childhood Mental Health
Services and Policy Research
Colleagues, we definitely have funding for this position. Please
forward to possible applicants. Thanks!
University of Washington Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral
Sciences
Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Early Childhood Mental Health Services and
Policy
The University of Washington's School of Nursing and Department of
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences are accepting applications now for
positions starting in the Summer or Fall 2009 for a one year Post-
Doctoral Fellowship position that trains advanced clinical
practitioners (psychologists, nurses, or other licensable practice
discipline) for leadership roles in early childhood mental health
services and policy research. The fellow recruited for the Early
Childhood Mental Health Services and Policy Research position will
have a strong interest in promoting an early childhood mental health
system of care that fosters the social and emotional well-being of
infants, toddlers and preschoolers and their families across the
spectrum of promotion, prevention, and intervention services that are
empirically-based, child and family centered, relationship-based,
culturally competent, infused into natural settings and services, and
grounded in developmental knowledge. The position will focus on
research and policy related to evidence-based practice and effective
methods of dissemination and implementation of evidence-based
practices in community settings. The fellowship offers clinical
training in 1 or 2 early childhood mental health evidence based
practices and opportunities to participate in a wide range of clinical
and systems outcome research. The position will include didactic
work, participation in ongoing funded projects, approximately a day a
week of clinical training in a relevant evidence-based early childhood
mental health treatment or consultation setting, and independent
research. The recruited fellow will be an integral part of the
University of Washington School of Nursing's Center on Infant Mental
Health and Development CIMHD ( http://www.cimhd.org/ ), and the
University of Washington's Evidence-Based Practices Institute (EBPI;
see website at http://depts.washington.edu/ebpi/) a community-academic
team that supports training, service delivery, policy work, and
research on behalf of improving the children's mental health system in
the state, and the which focuses on these activities specifically for
children birth to 5 and their families.
Interested candidates should email or send a letter of application and
CV to Susan Spieker, Ph.D spieker@u.washington.edu. If questions,
please email Dr. Spieker or she can be reached at 206-543-9200.
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Susan Spieker, Ph.D.
Professor, Family and Child Nursing
Director, Center on Infant Mental Health & Development
University of Washington
Box 357920
Seattle , WA 98195-7920
(o) 206 543 8453
(f) 206 543 9266
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