Helping Families, Changing the World:

Mental Health Professionals Making an Impact 

      The Diagnostic Evaluation Stabilization Center (DESC) at New York-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital strives to provide high quality, state of the art, acute psychiatric care to our pediatric population in Washington Heights, Inwood and the surrounding areas. Our diverse patient population spans a wide range of cultural, religious, and socioeconomic backgrounds. DESC provides care to families that come from marginalized and underserved, lower socioeconomic status backgrounds, primarily those that identify as Latinx and African American. Many of our patients have not had previous mental health services. DESC serves as an outpatient crisis program to stabilize youth within our community in need of psychiatric care, while simultaneously working with their parents, families and caregivers to enhance involvement in treatment.

Senior Clinical Psychologist - Diagnostic Evaluation Stabilization Center - Outpatient Behavioral Health – Grant Funded

Join a dynamic, multicultural, interdisciplinary care team working with children, adolescents and their families/caretakers experiencing a behavioral health crisis.  Team huddles occur daily to review cases and new referrals. Clinicians provide diagnostic assessment, crisis stabilization and short-term individual psychotherapy, and collateral sessions in an outpatient setting for youth presenting with a range of anxiety, mood, and behavioral disorders as well as risk for suicide; each case has a minimum of two contact points per week.  Common diagnoses/areas of concern include depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, trauma- and stressor-related disorders, academic concerns/ADHD, behavioral issues, and parent-child relational issues. After an extensive, multidisciplinary intake, clinicians work collaboratively, with youth and their family members to create comprehensive, culturally-sensitive, and evidence-based care plans to strengthen the relationships, support, and safety net to ensure greater health impact and future success.

With the support of the psychology manager, this position will provide support to other clinical team members and collaborate with the team on clinical, research and training issues.  In collaboration with the psychology manager, this role will include coordination and delivery of interventions for high risk youth both as usual care and part of a clinical research program, as well as training and consultation in crisis suicide prevention and crisis management for clinicians working both within NYP clinical services and for community partners.

Preferred Criteria 

• Experience working in acute care settings with youth  
• Experience providing short term and empirically supported treatments
• Competence working with multi-cultural communities
• Bilingual in Spanish

Required Criteria

• Doctorate degree in Psychology
• Minimum of 3 years of clinical experience
• New York State Psychologist License issued by the NY State Office of Professions

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