Postdoctoral Fellow - A.A.

Founded in 1863, Boston College is a Jesuit, Catholic university located six miles from downtown Boston with an enrollment of 9,484 full-time undergraduates and 5,250 graduate and professional students.  Ranked 35 among national universities, Boston College has 888 full-time and 1,281 FTE faculty, 2,711 non-faculty employees, an operating budget of $1.4 billion, and an endowment in excess of $3.5 billion.

Job Description

Postdoctoral Fellows

The fellowship is designed to provide postdoctoral fellows with a training experience that is first, concentrated on deepening their diagnostic and clinical skills, and second, representative of university mental health practice today. We are a relatively large counseling service, highly utilized on this campus of over 14,000 undergraduate and graduate students. In this setting fellows are actively engaged in the varied roles and functions of our work: evaluation and treatment of students; crisis and emergency response; consultation; and outreach programming. Boston College (BC) students are diverse and talented. At an institutional level, BC is invested in the integration of students' intellectual development with their personal formation. This makes for a psychologically rich population with which a fellow can explore closely and intensively the practice of psychotherapy. A fellow's clinical work and individual supervision, which are the core of their training, are embedded in the more encompassing experience of being part of a clinical staff that is committed and thoughtful in its work. In formulating client difficulties, we emphasize psychodynamic, developmental, and culturally sensitive approaches.

Formal training functions include individual supervision (2 hrs weekly); group supervision (1 hr weekly); supervision of group therapy work fellows provide; case conference; weekly multicultural conversation hour; a professional practice seminar; and administrative participation.

Distinct features of this advanced training experience include: 1) fellows generally advance their formulation and treatment-planning skills significantly; 2) they learn psychotherapy process with college aged population who are high-functioning while also very diagnostically troubled and complex; and 3) they develop understanding of the intersections of psychopathology with developmental and multicultural forces. This is an eleven-month fellowship.

Competitive salary commensurate with relevant experience.

Requirements

Post Doctoral Fellow

Closing Statement

Boston College offers a broad and competitive range of benefits depending on your job classification eligibility:

• Tuition remission for Employees
• Tuition remission for Spouses and Children who meet eligibility requirements
• Generous Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Low-Cost Life Insurance
• Eligibility for both University-Funded 401k and Employer-Sponsored 403b Retirement Plans
• Paid Holidays Annually
• Generous Sick and Vacation Pay
• Additional benefits can be found on https://www.bc.edu/employeehandbook

Boston College conducts pre-employment background checks as part of the hiring process.

Boston College is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer. In concert with our Jesuit, Catholic mission, Boston College is dedicated to the goal of building a culturally diverse and pluralistic faculty and staff committed to teaching and working in a multicultural environment and strongly encourages applications for women, minorities, individuals with disabilities, and covered veterans. To learn more about how BC supports diversity and inclusion throughout the university please visit the Office for Institutional Diversity at https://www.bc.edu/diversity .

Boston College's Notice of Nondiscrimination can be viewed at https://www.bc.edu/nondiscrimination .