Fellowships
The Reiss-Davis Child Study Center and Institute has an excellent national and international reputation for training psychologists and clinical social workers, as well as treating young people for over 60 years. Reiss-Davis offers Fellowships that exclusively focus on diagnostic and therapeutic services for children, adolescents, and families from a psychodynamic perspective.
Reiss-Davis Clinical
Fellowship Programs
Reiss-Davis offers advanced training through Post-Doctoral/Post-Graduate Fellowship in Clinical Psychology and Clinical Social Work. The program is a 24-month commitment spent learning about and providing services to emotionally disturbed children, adolescents, and their families from a neuro-bio-psycho-social developmental view.
This Fellowship Includes:
Seminars of at least 10 hours per week, focused on working with children, adolescents, and parents and taught by well-respected professionals.
The opportunity to work clinically with young people and their families for at least 10 hours a week, receive up to three hours of individual supervision weekly, and attend group supervision offered as a part of various classes.
Participation in clinical research, free attendance to continuing education events, and the opportunity to work with the on-site programs of Vista del Mar.
A stipend is included with all participants of the fellowship program.
Reiss-Davis PEDS
Fellowship Program
Reiss-Davis offers a 24-month Internship and/or Post-Doctoral Fellowship program in Psycho-Educational Diagnostic Testing Service (PEDS).
This Fellowship Includes:
Classes incorporating history taking, patient observation, case conceptualization, assessment, diagnosis, and treatment recommendations for children and adolescents from a psychodynamic developmental perspective.
Seminars also include testing: cognitive, attentional, processing, educational, and neuropsychological assessment, report writing, scoring, and interpretation.
Additional seminars on psychological assessment, including Rorschach, TAT, Bender Gestalt, etc.
Cases are presented, reviewed, and interpreted, and Interns/Fellows learn how to integrate assessment findings into a more comprehensive and cohesive understanding of the client.
In lieu of a stipend, a financial incentive program is offered.
Participation in clinical research, free attendance to continuing education events, and the opportunity to work with the on-site programs of Vista del Mar.