Ben Taub Hospital (BTH) is a county-funded general hospital built in 1963 to serve the needs of the Houston area. The Psychiatry Service at BTH provides inpatient and outpatient treatment for medically indigent and psychiatrically impaired persons. As a member of the Psychiatry team, postdoctoral fellows will provide assessment and therapy services to psychiatric patients in the outpatient and inpatient setting. 

For the upcoming academic year (2025-2026), we will be offering 3 full-time postdoctoral fellowship positions available for the Ben Taub Hospital/Baylor College of Medicine Psychology Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. Two postdoctoral fellowship positions will be offered for the BTH/BCM Adult Inpatient/Outpatient Track.  One fellowship postion will be offered for the BCM Anti-Human Trafficking Program.  All fellows will complete their fellowships through Ben Taub Mental Health Services located at BTH. 

Postdoctoral fellows on the BTH/BCM Adult Inpatient/Outpatient Track will spend six months in the BTMHS outpatient clinic and 6 months on the adult acute psychiatric inpatient unit at BTH. On the outpatient rotation, fellows will provide psychological assessments and therapy services to psychiatric outpatients and serve as a primary clinician for the Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP). On the inpatient rotation, the fellow will become an integral member of two multi-disciplinary treatment teams. Fellows function as consultants on the treatment teams and provide services that include individual therapy, group therapy, and brief psychological assessments to patients admitted to the inpatient unit. The fellow will also conduct psychological assessment and consultation services to medical inpatients through the hospital Consultation and Liaison Service (C&L). In addition to the primary rotation duties, each fellow will have the opportunity to choose an Elective Rotation (i.e. individual therapy, research, specialized outpatient groups, human trafficking patients, assessment). 

The BCM Anti-Human Trafficking Program Track focuses on training postdoctoral fellows in the identification, treatment, advocacy, and research of victims of human trafficking. Applicants for this track should have expertise in trauma, abuse, and/or human trafficking, have particular interests in working with adolescents and adults from diverse and marginalized backgrounds, and a demonstrated history of or potential for publishing in medical journals. The fellow's job duties include but are not limited to conducting bio-psycho-social assessments with potential victims of human trafficking, assessing for trafficking victims within intersecting at-risk populations such as the homeless and domestic violence victims, and tracking patient progress (through bio-psycho-social framework). The fellow will also provide psychological treatment to human trafficking victims, work closely with hospital staff and faculty to identify potential human trafficking victims and to educate and train providers, staff, and community members on methods of screening for human trafficking, and tracking psychiatric outcomes to develop more effective psychiatric treatment modalities for human trafficking victims. 

All fellows will also have opportunities to work with psychiatry residents, teach psychology seminars to medical students, and participate in ongoing research protocols. The training program is flexible and tailored to the fellow’s interests and needs upon agreement between supervisors and fellow. Some activities are required, but there is considerable room for customization within the general categories of training activities.

We will begin accepting applications on November 1, 2024. Applicants must be graduates from APA- or CPA-Accredited Counseling or Clinical Psychology Ph.D. or Psy.D. training programs. Applicants must complete all doctoral degree requirements by 9/1/2025, including dissertation. U.S. citizenship is not a requirement for the fellowship. 

The deadline for applications is December 2, 2024 (11:59PM EST). We will send interview invitations by January 1, 2025. We will begin interviewing applicants in Mid-January. Interviews will be held over Zoom. We will be adhering to the APPIC Postdoctoral Selection Standards and Common Hold Date (CHD) Guidelines for the selection of the 2025-2026 class.  

The fellowship begins September 1, 2025 and ends August 31, 2026. If fellow is hired, please be available a month in advanced before the start of your fellowship in order to complete on-boarding and credentialing process. Application must be submitted through APPA CAS system (https://www.appic.org/Postdocs/APPA-CAS-Postdoc-Application-Information). Applicants are required to submit a cover letter, CV, and 3 letters of recommendation.