Clinical Psychologist

• Meet with lab members to present updates - Weekly
• Work products and documents related to performing neurodevelopmental and neuropsychological assessments from outpatient and inpatient studies; perform diagnostic assessments; provide specific autism assessment measures. - Weekly
• Work products and documents related to performing screening evaluations of potential research subjects using structured and semi-structured testing methods; pilot and administer tests for research studies. - Weekly
• Work products and documents related to data collection, entry, and analyses from a variety of studies, including presentations and manuscripts; develop and maintain research protocol records; provide consultation regarding study design and use of psychological instruments. - Weekly

Work Details:

• Write and present recommendations to automate research tasks and improve approaches to psychotherapy in a therapeutic setting 1
• Develop and maintain complete and accurate research protocol records 2
• Write and present manuals, standard operating procedures, and guidelines for clinical research involving or related to clinical psychology 3
• Contribute scientific proposals regarding potential studies and analyses of data as an author to peer-reviewed manuscripts regarding study findings 4
• Provides screening and recruitment of patients for research protocols.
• Work in the Neurodevelopmental and Behavioral Phenotyping Service in the intramural research program at NIMH;
• Collaborate with staff in the Psychiatry Consultation Liaison Service and other research teams from NIMH and other
• Institutes on incoming neurodevelopmental and neuropsychological assessments from Clinical Center inpatient and outpatient studies
• Perform screening evaluations of potential research subjects using structured and semi-structured testing methods
• Coordinates scheduling and evaluations of patients within each protocol.
• Perform valid and reliable diagnostic assessments, utilizing structured instruments and assessments
• Perform cognitive and neuropsychological assessments for clinical care and research studies including diagnostic assessments containing parent interviews as well as direct testing with individuals
• Develop and maintain research protocol records
• Provides clinical support to patients and their families throughout the time they are participating in research protocols.
• Provide family support and crisis management services as needed
• Conduct patient and volunteer follow-up evaluations and track patients through longitudinal studies
• Provide referral to appropriate NIH resources and community services, when indicated
• Provide verbal and written feedback to participants and their families
• Provide general recommendations and referrals to school systems, medical and health facilities and other agencies
• Conducts psychological testing of patients and healthy control subjects.
• Utilize structured instruments and assessments to perform diagnostic assessments
• Provide specific autism and neurodevelopmental disorder assessment measures; work with patients of all ages, mostly young children, including infants; these also include work with very impaired populations that are assessed for behavioral phenotyping
• Administers and interprets psychological assessments to probands and family members as part of the research protocol.
• Administer and interpret neuropsychological assessments to probands and family members as part of research protocols and prepares reports of results
• Participates in the planning and execution of clinical research.
• Work with staff on data collection, entry and analyses of behavioral phenotypic data from a variety of studies, including those in several Branches of the NIMH and other NIH Institutes, including NICHD and NHGRI This will include providing consultation to multidisciplinary research teams regarding study findings for incorporation into research manuscripts and presentation
• Educates research staff regarding the use, strengths and limitation of psychological testing.
• Provide teaching and training and other presentations to various groups within NIH and to outside community stakeholders regarding conditions being studied and research findings
• Train research assistants, staff and trainees on psychiatric screening interviews and neuropsychological assessments
• Provide expert consultation to multidisciplinary research teams regarding study findings for incorporation into research manuscripts and presentation
• Conducts psychological testing of patients and healthy controls.
• Performs as senior clinician responsible for conducting research ratings for inpatients and outpatients.
• Participate in research group meetings and in the decision-making process regarding patient inclusion in the studies, patient and parent diagnosis, and patient and family management throughout participation in the research protocol
• Documents research processes and findings.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5 represents priority rankings, where 1 is highest priority and 5 is lowest priority of those ranked

Minimum Education

• PhD

• Valid State license as a Psychologist or license eligible

• Treatment Therapy Professions
• Miscellaneous Health Medical Professions
• General Medical and Health Services
• Communication Disorders Sciences and Services

• Computer skills to include MS Office Suite.

• Clinical trial management, work with special populations (children, adolescents, adult, elderly)
• Patient care
• Preferred Spanish Speaking