Post-MSW Graduate Fellowship:
OVERVIEW

The Emory University Counseling Center offers a twelve-month Post-MSW Graduate Fellowship. This is an advanced clinical training program that begins August 1, 2010 through July 31, 2011. This Fellowship is designed for the pre-licensed clinical social worker. The Fellow has an opportunity to advance and deepen his or her clinical skills using a brief therapy model, as well as an opportunity to gain some longer-term psychotherapy experience.   Services provided will typically  include  individual, couples and group modalities. The Fellow would have an opportunity to work in a clinical setting that utilizes a variety of theoretical models, including, but not limited to psychodynamic, interpersonal, family systems and cognitive behavioral therapy. Each Fellow is based in the Counseling Center for 4 days per week, and also spends 2 half-days per week at Emory’s  Faculty  Staff Assistance Program (FSAP), which provides services for Emory employees and their families.  Fellows gain supervised experience providing intake assessments, brief psychotherapy, outreach, case management, and crisis intervention.   Postdoctoral and Post-MSW Fellows also plan and teach a seminar for the Counseling Center’s practicum-level trainees.  Primary Supervision will be provided by Licensed Clinical Social Workers with additional supervision opportunities with  licensed psychologists or psychiatrists. The Center is comprised of a multidisciplinary senior staff of social workers, psychiatrists and  psychologists, along with trainees in each discipline.

PHILOSOPHY OF TRAINING

The Post-MSW Graduate Fellowship provides supervised advanced training to individuals with a Master of Social Work degree from a program accredited by the Council of Social Work Education. The general goals of the program is to provide  Fellows with an opportunity to enhance and deepen clinical psychotherapy skills, intake assessment, clinical supervision, crisis management and the use of community resources for referral and after care. The program makes every effort to promote the values and ethical principles and ethical standards inherent in being a social worker. It is the Center’s goal to enhance human well-being and help meet the human basic needs of all people within a social context with particular sensitivity to ethnic and cultural diversity (1999 NASW Code of Ethics).  Each Fellow will receive experience  working in a University Mental Health setting that serves the Emory community, which includes undergraduate, graduate students, faculty and staff.

Fellows at the Emory Counseling Center receive intensive, supportive training, which is designed to prepare Fellows for the diversity of roles which psychologists and social workers assume in their career paths.  It is expected that Post-graduate Fellows will work with a variety of clients, cultural backgrounds, presenting problems and treatment modalities.  In addition, each Fellow has the opportunity to work with an identified Specialty Supervisor in order to focus his or her training on a particular area of clinical interest.  Selections for the Fellowships are made without discrimination based on race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, gender, gender identity, age, disability, sexual/affectional orientation, or veteran's status. 

Fellows receive the same health and dental insurance benefits as regular, full-time staff, and have access to University library and computer facilities. There is a fitness center on campus which Fellows may use for a low annual fee. Fellows receive twelve days of paid vacation, eleven University holidays, 12 sick days, a $300 professional development fund (to assist with conference/workshop attendance costs),  and one week of professional or educational leave. The Post-MSW Fellowship stipend for the year is $28,000.

APPLICATION AND SELECTION CRITERIA:

Applicants must have a Master’s of Social Work degree from an accredited program by the start of the Fellowship. (If the graduate transcript does not document completion of the MSW degree, the applicant should include a letter from the graduate faculty verifying that all requirements for the degree are expected to be completed before August 1st.). Applicants should submit a one page statement of interest, graduate transcripts, three letters of recommendation, Curriculum Vita, and  a copy of 1st and 2nd year internship evaluations.  Application materials may be submitted in one packet.  Application materials should be postmarked by February 15, 2010.

Mail application materials to:

Pamela J. Epps, Ph.D.
Associate Director for Training
Emory University Counseling Center
1462 Clifton Road
Suite 235
Atlanta, Georgia 30322
(404) 727-1920 (training phone line)
(404) 727-7450 (main office)