Psychology Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

Psychology Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

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VA Boston Healthcare System
Psychology Service (116B)
150 South Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02130

Thank you for your interest in the VA Boston Psychology Postdoctoral Fellowship Program! The Fellowship Program at the VA Boston Healthcare System is a multiple practice program including the substantive traditional practice of Clinical Psychology and the specialty practice of Clinical Neuropsychology. Both programs are accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of the American Psychological Association*. Our next Site Visit will be in 2022.

The VA Boston Psychology Postdoctoral Fellowship Program seeks candidates who have received a doctorate from an APA or CPA accredited graduate program in Clinical, Counseling, or Combined Psychology or PCSAS accredited Clinical Science program. Persons with a doctorate in another area of psychology who meet the APA or CPA criteria for respecialization training in Clinical, Counseling, or Combined Psychology are also eligible. In addition, candidates must have completed an internship program accredited by APA or CPA or have completed a VA-sponsored internship.

Within the Clinical Psychology Training Program, we offer training in nine areas of emphasis (“tracks”). For the 2019 – 2020 training year, we will be recruiting 12 postdoctoral fellows in the below tracks:

• Addictions and Co-Occurring Disorders
• Behavioral Medicine
• Dual Diagnosis
• Interprofessional General Mental Health
• Geropsychology
• Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) Health Care
• Post-Deployment Readjustment, and
• Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Within the Clinical Neuropsychology Training Program, we offer broad neuropsychology training. For the 2019 – 2021 training years (please note the two-year training program), we will be recruiting two postdoctoral fellows.

To learn more about each of the above positions and how to apply (application due date of December 17, 2018), please download the training brochure below. All applications will be submitted using the APPA CAS portal. We have also provided a listing of our training faculty to supplement the Training Brochure.

• Download the 2019-2020 VA Boston Clinical Psychology Fellowship Training Brochure

• Download the 2019-2021 VA Boston Neuropsychology Fellowship Training Brochure
• Download a listing of our Training Faculty

APA requires the inclusion of the following information:

• Postdoctoral Residency Admissions, Support, and Initial Placement Data for the Clinical Psychology Fellowship
• Postdoctoral Residency Admissions, Support, and Initial Placement Data for the Clinical Neuropsychology Fellowship

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