Clinical Child Track
The intern in the Clinical Child Track will receive training in assessment, consultation, and intervention across diverse content areas in child and family clinical and health psychology. Each clinic and service emphasizes different content areas and activities that correspond to faculty expertise and are supervised by faculty in the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology. Rotations are organized by clinic or service.
Standard Rotations
Interns will be assigned to the following 6-month and year-long rotations:
Supervisor: Brenda Wiens, PhD
Young Child Neurodevelopment Assessment
Length: Full day for entire year
Supervisor: Alana Rawlinson, PhD, Within Program PCIT Trainer
Parent Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT)
Length: ½ day for 6 months
Supervisor: Joy Gabrielli, PhD
Adolescent Mental Health
Length: ½ day for 6 months
Supervisor: Brenda Wiens, PhD
School-Based Mental Health
Length: Full day for 6 months
Supervisors: Child Area faculty
Outpatient Therapy
Length: 2 full days for entire year
Elective Rotation
Supervisors: Child Area faculty
Child Health Rotation
Length: ½ day for 6 months
Pediatric Psychology Intensive Track
The two interns in this track will be exposed to a wide variety of patient populations and medical settings. Rotations involve consultation and brief targeted assessment/intervention experiences for working with children with acute and chronic health conditions in outpatient interdisciplinary clinics, inpatient consultation on the pediatric units at UF Health Shands Hospital, and targeted intakes and intervention within the UF Psychology Specialties Behavioral Pediatrics Clinic. Interns will have opportunities to address a variety of presenting concerns including disease self-management, coping and adjustment, feeding aversion, elimination disorders, pain and behavioral sleep challenges, as well as other conditions across the rotations described below. All rotations are organized by the day on which the clinic or service is offered by the attending faculty member.
Standard Rotations
Interns will be assigned to the following 6-month and year-long rotations:
Supervisor: David Janicke, PhD, ABPP
Behavioral Pediatrics Clinic
Length: ½ day for 6 months
Supervisor: Brenda Wiens, PhD
Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Length: ½ day for 6 months
Supervisor: David Fedele, PhD, ABPP
Pediatric Pulmonology (CF Clinic)
Length: Full day for 6 months
Supervisors: Kimberly Driscoll, PhD, and Sarah Westen, PhD
Pediatric Endocrinology (Type 1 Diabetes Clinics)
Length: Full day for 6 months
Supervisors: Child Area faculty
Outpatient Therapy
Length: 2 full days for entire year
Elective Rotations
Interns will have the opportunity to select 1-2 of the following elective rotations.
Supervisor: Shelley Heaton, PhD
Pediatric Craniofacial Anomalies
Length: ½ day for 3 months
Supervisor: David Janicke, PhD, ABPP
Pediatric Gastroenterology (Inflammatory Bowel Disease Clinic)
Length: ½ day for 3 months
Supervisors: Erika Cascio, PsyD, and Jennifer Fisher, PhD, ABPP
Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
Length: Full day for 3 or 6 months
Supervisor: David Janicke, PhD, ABPP
Pediatric Sleep Medicine
Length: ½ day for 3 months