Clinical Psychologist, Autism Center

About Child Mind Institute

We're dedicated to transforming the lives of children and families struggling with mental health and learning disorders by giving them the help they need. We've become the leading independent nonprofit in children's mental health by providing gold-standard evidence-based care, delivering educational resources to millions of families each year, training educators in underserved communities, and developing tomorrow's breakthrough treatments.

Position Details:

The Autism Center at the Child Mind Institute is an integrated research and clinical center dedicated to autism research, diagnosis, evaluations, evidence-based treatment and support of autism and co-occurring neurodevelopmental conditions.

You work intensively with children and adolescents, their parents and teachers, and young adults on the autism spectrum and with related neurodevelopmental conditions. You will conduct diagnostic and behavioral assessments of as well as provide evidence-based outpatient treatments to provide clinical services and to support of research aimed to understand the underling biology of autism and related conditions.

You will split your time between our research programs and clinical practice services

This is an exempt, full-time, hybrid (minimum 4 days in office) position located in our NYC headquarters office.

You Will:

• Conduct comprehensive diagnostic and/or clinical assessments including:

• Obtaining important clinical history
• Administering and interpreting semi-structured interviews and assessments (e.g., ADI-R, ADOS-2, Kiddie-SADS, VABS-3), and developmental, cognitive, language, and achievement standardized testing.
• Collecting necessary additional data (e.g., ratings scales, collateral contact)
  1. Oversee the assessments and activities conducted by earlier career staff including trainees – (post- and pre- doctoral fellows) - research assistants, earlier career stage colleagues and social workers.
  2. Develop written reports to include important medical history, cognitive testing results, and diagnosis based on clinical assessments and summarize treatment recommendations, as well as deliver evaluation feedback and appropriate treatment recommendations to parent and/or young adults.
  3. Provide evidence-based outpatient treatment in individual or group modalities to children, adolescents and young adults on the autism spectrum with or without cooccurring anxiety, mood, ADHD, and other behavioral neurodevelopmental conditions.
  4. Conduct family-based interventions with parents and other family members and maintain collateral contacts with educators and other providers.

• Collaborate with other clinicians and our board-certified child and adolescent psychiatrists on cases requiring pharmacotherapy
• Conduct workshops, presentations, and webinars on children's mental health topics for community outreach
• Coordinate and actively participate in research case conferences, and data and/or literature review meetings, as well as multidisciplinary team meetings across the clinical and research initiatives of the center including continuing education meetings

You Have:

• Must have completed a Ph.D. or Psy.D. program in Psychology
• Must have or be eligible for a valid, unrestricted license to practice psychology in the State of New York.
• Training in specific evidence-based interventions for autism and neurodevelopmental conditions with demonstrated expertise in at least one of the following: Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), Project Impact, Early Start Denver Model, Facing Your Fears, PEERS®, Children Friendship Training, JASPER, Unstuck and On Target, Pivotal Response Treatment, Parent Management Training, RUBI, Parent-Child Interaction Therapy.

Proficiency in the administration and scoring of the ADOS-2, and/or ADI-R and research reliability in at least one of these two instruments

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Our Benefits

Our great compensation package and benefits include medical insurance, 401(k), paid parental leave, dependent care, flexible work schedules, discounted tickets and entertainment perks programs. For more information about our benefits, please visit our