The Hope Institute for Children and Families & SIU School of Medicine Division of Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics/Psychology
www.thehopeinstitute.us
www.theautismprogram.org
www.siumed.edu
Hope Institute for Children and Families
The internship provided by the Hope Institute for Children and Families site provides the opportunity for supervised experience in clinic, school, and residential environments. Interns have the opportunity to practice skills best suited to support the needs of both preschool and school aged youth. For their school-based experience, interns provide assessment, consultation, and intervention within the self-contained public school classrooms for children with behavioral and emotional disorders located on the campus of The Hope Institute.
Interns spend 3 days per week working at The Hope Institute for Children and Families and The Autism Program during the entire internship year and a two days working at Springfield Public Schools. The full stipend is $18,000 and the additional benefits offered by The Hope Institute for Children and Families to all employees, including health insurance, paid vacation time off, personal days, holidays and sick time. The work day typically begins at 8 am and ends at 5 pm with an hour off for lunch at mid day. Whenever evening activities, such as clinics, consultations, or seminars, are scheduled, the time may be flexed from other activities.
Dependent upon individual goals of the intern, a typical week may involve providing diagnostic, assessment and treatment services, individual and group therapy and multidisciplinary meetings, as selected by the intern in conjunction with the Chief of Behavioral Health at The Hope Institute for Children and Families. It could aloso include participating in the diagnostic clinic, multidisciplinary feedback meetings, and social skills groups within The Autism Program or within the Neuro-Behavioral Health Clinic monitoring of psychotropic medications and behavior management programs. Additional times during the week will be flexibly designed to meet the intern’s interest areas with time to manage or keep up with ongoing projects and activities such as preparation of diagnostic reports, development of training materials, school consultation, or research. The intern will spend 2 days each week within a school setting. Training in the classroom at The Hope Institute for Children and Families will emphasize development and practice of behavioral intervention skills such as conducting analogue Functional Analyses, writing behavior intervention plans and training direct care staff in their use, participating in multidisciplinary tram meetings, consulting with and training teachers and classroom staff, developing data collection systems to monitor treatment effects, analyzing data and providing interpretation of treatment effects to parents and treatment team members. For their school-based experience, interns in Track 2 provide assessment, consultation, and intervention within the self-contained public school classrooms for children with behavioral and emotional disorders located on the campus of The Hope Institute.
The Hope Institute for Children and Families
A detailed description of the history and current activities of the Hope Institute for Children and Families can be accessed at www.TheHopeSchool.org The Hope Institute for Children and Families internship is based on a practitioner-scientist model providing experience in best practice techniques and evidence-based approaches. Interns may share office space, but will have personal computers, telephone and e-mail, as well as testing equipment, office supplies, and support from the clerical staff and data analyst shared by the Behavioral Health Department. Audio and video access is provided to all classrooms in the school to support therapeutic interventions, monitoring of treatment effects and research activities. A minimum of two hours of individual clinical supervision are provided each week by licensed clinical psychologists with expertise in applied behavior analysis, cognitive-behavioral therapy, management of psychotropic medications, diagnostic assessment of autism spectrum disorders, and management of educational environments. Additional support and informal supervision is available from the pediatric neurologist, from two Board Certified Behavior Analysts, and from licensed Masters level therapists who regularly provide group and individual therapies to children at The Autism Program. Experience in multidisciplinary team consensus building is provided through participation in child support teams whose membership includes psychologists, behavior analysts, speech therapists, teachers, occupational therapists, nurses, direct care staff, program coordinators (i.e. qualified mental retardation professionals), parents, the client child, and representatives of the funding agency.
The Autism Program
The Autism Program provides varied and unique experiences to the intern with interest in developmental disabilities and ASD. The Autism Program is a statewide program, funded through legislation and responsible to DHS, that is charged with building the system of care for children with autism and their families throughout Illinois. The intern will have the opportunity to train at The Autism Program’s Central Illinois Regional Training and Service Center which is housed in Springfield. The statewide administrative offices for The Autism Program are also located in the same facilioty as the Central Illinois Center. The Autism Program center is part of a larger medical center that houses several partnering agencies, including the Mental Health Centers of Central Illinois Children’s Services and SIU School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry. Clinical training includes screening and comprehensive diagnostic evaluations of children referred for assessment of potential ASD. This includes the intern obtaining certification and proficiency in reliably administering, scoring, and interpreting the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS). The intern may also participate in intake interviews, social skills groups, ABA clinic, family focus consultation, functional assessment for treatment planning, new diagnosis orientation program, and summer camps for children with ASD. In addition, the intern will have the opportunity to work with families calling the Family Resource Coordinator and to provide orientation to families to the Central Illinois Center’s Family Resource Room and Communication Clubhouse. The Central Illinois Center, in addition to providing a Family Clinic, is also responsible for collaboration and service networking and support throughout 51 counties in central Illinois. As such, the intern will have the opportunity to work with parent groups from around the region, to develop and design programs and services, and to conduct program evaluation and participate in clinical outcomes studies. In addition, The Autism Program provides substantial training to parents, providers, physicians and educators around Illinois. The intern will have the opportunity to develop trainings, to participate in delivering trainings to various groups and to assist in The Autism Program’s Annual Conference. The intern will also have the opportunity to participate in a variety of autism and developmental disability trainings hosted by The Autism Program.
SIU School of Medicine Division of Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics/Psychology
SIU School of Medicine is guided by a clear mandate to assist the people of central and southern Illinois in meeting their present and future health needs through education, research and service. Beginning in 1970, the founding dean and newly recruited department chairs, clinical basic science and medical education faculty literally created the School's innovative competency-based curriculum. Today, the School encompasses a complete sequence of programs beginning with undergraduate medical education and progresses through residency training and continuing education for practicing physicians. In Carbondale, home of Southern Illinois University's parent campus, faculty and science facilities assist in delivering the basic science curriculum. Springfield, 170 miles to the north, is the site of the remaining three years of undergraduate curriculum and 14 residency programs, a basic science and clinical faculty of 300-plus, and the School's central administration. Affiliation agreements between the School and Memorial Medical Center and St. John's Hospital provide the valuable physical base for the clinical programs in Springfield. Approximately 950 downstate physicians serve as volunteer and part-time faculty for both locations.
The psychology intern completes evaluations of or provides treatment to children who are referred by faculty and residents of the clinics described below. He/she can expect to work with cases involving infants/pre-schoolers with environmental and biological risk factors, children with various psychiatric disorders such as ADHD and emotional concerns, and parents needing training in behavioral intervention. The patient population is diverse racially and fiscally. The intern works collaboratively with medical interns on their Developmental and Behavioral Rotation and is supervised by a board certified, licensed psychologist and a developmental pediatrician. The intern also provides consultation to various resident clinics, as demand and time permit. Interns are assigned readings in response to clients' presenting concerns. Archival data are available for intern research or he/she is encouraged to develop a project. The experience is organized for increasing autonomy beginning with supervisor modeling, performing tasks under observation, and eventually independently. The intern is responsible for write-ups and communication to referring physicians and these are reviewed and sign by the licensed supervisor. The intern attends the Developmental Continuity Clinic and the Children’s Evaluation Clinic.
The intern will work with professionals from other divisions in Pediatrics and other SIU Departments. These include:
General Pediatrics: The division of Ambulatory Pediatrics at SIU School of Medicine offers comprehensive health care for newborns, children, and adolescents. Faculty members are Board Certified Pediatricians committed to improving the health of children and educating future doctors.
Pediatric Neurology: The division of child and adolescent neurology provides comprehensive care for infants, children, and adolescents with all types of neurological disorders including seizures, developmental delays, headaches, and movement disorders.
Pediatric Neonatology : The Division of Neonatology runs two neonatal centers: a level III NICU at St. John's Hospital and a level II nursery at Memorial Medical Center. The NICU at St. John's Hospital is designed as part of the state of Illinois Parental Center. Approximately 4500 deliveries are managed locally with a metro referral population. Both air and ground transport is employed.
The psychology intern works approximately 60 %time with Hope School and 40% time in the Division of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics in the Department of Pediatrics at SIU School of Medicine. SIU provides an office within St. John’s Pavilion, a laptop, access to e-mails/internet/EMR/ and dictation services. Interns maintain their own malpractice insurance coverage.
SUPERVISORS
Kimberly Pollock, Ph.D., a licensed clinical psychologist, earned a master's degree in clinical psychology at Illinois State University and completed a doctoral degree in clinical child psychology at The University of Alabama in 1995. She completed a doctoral internship at the Des Moines Child and Adolescent Guidance Center. Her professional experience has focused extensively on assessment and intervention with preschool- and school-aged youth with autism and other developmental disabilities, as well as accompanying behavioral difficulties. Other areas of specialization include parent training and parent-child interaction therapy; intervention in youth with histories of sexual and physical abuse; and assessment and treatment of youth with sexual behavior problems. Dr. Pollock practices in the Behavioral Health Department at The Hope Institute for Children and Families (THICF), where for the past decade, she has played an integral role in the development and implementation of behavioral intervention and programming for youth with autism and developmental disabilities, and in training of staff, doctoral level interns, and a post-doctoral fellow. Dr. Pollock also participates in comprehensive diagnostic assessment for all Hope youth, and at The Autism Program (TAP) Central Illinois Regional Training Center at THICF. At TAP, Dr. Pollock heads the Diagnostic Clinic, which provides multidisciplinary comprehensive evaluations for youth in the community suspected of having an autism spectrum disorder.
Julie C. Herbstrith, Ph.D., a certified school psychologist, earned her master’s degree at the University of Missouri-St. Louis and completed her doctoral degree at Illinois State University. She completed her internship at the Psychological Services Center in Normal, Illinois, one of the ISPIC training sites. Currently, she is on the faculty in the School Psychology Program at Western Illinois University where she teaches in the areas of child psychopathology, psychological interventions for children and adolescents, and school-based consultation.
Dr. Glen P. Aylward, Ph.D., ABPP is a Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine in Springfield, IL. He is also Chief, Division of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics/Psychology. Dr. Aylward is boarded in Clinical Psychology and also Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Board of Professional Psychology; a Fellow of the Academy of Clinical Psychology (FAClinP); a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (5 divisions) and is listed in the National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology. Dr. Aylward has authored more than 100 papers, chapters, abstracts and reviews, and is the author of the Bayley Infant Neurodevelopmental Screener, and the books, Practitioner’s Guide to Developmental and Psychological Testing, Infant and Early Childhood Neuropsychology, and Practitioner’s Guide to Behavioral Problems in Children. He also is one of the editors of The Bayley-III; Clinical Use and Interpretation. Dr. Aylward is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, is on the editorial board of 4 additional journals, and is an ad hoc reviewer for 18. Dr. Aylward has served on numerous committees and executive boards in the American Psychological Association, the Society for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, and the American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine. He was President of the Society of Pediatric Psychology (Div. 54, APA) and President of the Society of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics. His research and clinical interests include neurodevelopmental assessment, developmental screening, prediction of outcome in high- risk infants, and the diagnosis and differentiation of attention deficit disorders, executive dysfunction and learning/memory disabilities.
Alicia Shapinsky, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist. She completed her graduate studies in clinical psychology at Wayne State University in 2007. Following her doctoral internship at the St. Louis Veterans Affairs Medical Center, she went on to complete her postdoctoral training at The Hope Institute for Children and Families in Springfield, Illinois, where she worked with children and young adults with intellectual disabilities and autism spectrum disorders. Other areas of previous clinical experience include psychological and neuropsychological assessment of individuals with neurological impairments, particularly physical rehabilitation populations (e.g., individuals with traumatic brain injury, stroke, dementia, spinal cord injury, chronic pain), as well as individual psychotherapy with a cognitive behavioral focus. Her thesis and dissertation research evaluated the validity of assessment tools for posttraumatic stress disorder in civilian populations and for decision-making capacity with cognitively impaired adults. Dr. Shapinsky is currently a clinical psychologist in the Behavioral Health Department at The Hope Institute for Children and Families.