Postdoctoral Opportunities

For more information about each program listed below, you may visit their website as linked below, or download the PDF (390KB) containing information about forensic rotations including: setting, population, type of forensic assessment and treatment experiences, as well as amount of time spent at each training experience. Contact information including email and website addresses has been included to facilitate contact with fellowship programs. The file was developed by Alvin Malesky and Steven L. Proctor.

The Student Committee experimental liaison develops a postdoctoral fellowship resource guide for students each year, which includes the names of professionals willing to be contacted by prospective postdoctoral trainees interested in setting up their own postdoctoral positions.

• Postdoctoral Fellowship in Adolescent Forensic Psychology: Dating Violence Prevention for Juvenile Justice Girls
  Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Clinical Psychology Training Consortium
• Research Postdoctoral Training
  Department of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School
• Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (PDF, 496KB)
  University of South Florida, Department of Mental Health & Policy

• Arkansas State Hospital (PDF, 147KB)

• Center for Behavioral Medicine, Missouri Department of Mental Health & University of Missouri-Kansas City-School of Medicine

• Central Regional Hospital (formerly Dorothea Dix Hospital) 

• Fellowship Program in Forensic Psychology
  Partnership between East Central Regional Hospital and Georgia Regents University

• Forensic Clinical Psychology Postdoctoral Fellowship with the Special Committee Center in Washington in affiliation with the University of Washington

• Forensic Psychiatric Hospital
  Download the PDF (390KB) for contact information

• Forensic Psychology Postdoctoral Fellowship (PDF, 778KB)
  University of Denver’s Forensic Institute for Research, Service and Training

• Forensic Psychology Training Program Postdoctoral Fellowship (PDF, 289KB)
  Liberty Healthcare Illinois Department of Human Services Treatment & Detention Facility 

• Institute on Violence, Abuse, and Trauma
  Alliant International University

• Larned State Hospital

• Liberty Healthcare Corporation
  

• Illinois Department of Human Services

• Massachusetts General Hospital (PDF, 254KB)
  Massachusetts Treatment Center, Massachusetts Department of Correction Forensic Health Services/MHM Inc. 

• Minnesota State Operated Forensic Services

• Patton State Hospital

• Postdoctoral Fellowship in Forensic Psychology (PDF, 98KB)
  at Mendota Mental Health Institute (MMHI) and Sand Ridge Secure Treatment Center (SRSTC) 

• Postdoctoral Fellowship in Prevention and Methodology
  Penn State

• Postdoctoral Fellowship program  working with a military/Veteran population
  The VISN 19 Denver VAMC Mental Illness Research, Education & Clinical Center (MIRECC) 

• Postdoctoral Fellowship (Psychology Associate Doctorate) in Forensic Services
  Springfield Hospital Center, Sykesville, Md. (Contact Julie A. Beasman, PsyD)

• Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Forensic Evaluations Unit within Mecklenburg County’s Criminal Justice Services Department (PDF, 164KB)

• Postdoctoral Fellowships
  The University of Pennsylvania

• Postdoctoral Fellowships
  Westchester Institute for Human Development

• Postdoctoral Fellowship in Child and Family Forensic Evaluation
  For more information, email Robin Deutsch.

• Postdoctoral Fellowship in Forensic Psychology in Community and Public Safety Psychiatry Division
  Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Medical University of South Carolina

• Postdoctoral Fellowship Program 
  Northwest Forensic Institute

• Postdoctoral Forensic Psychology Fellowship
  Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo (Contact Thomas Gray, PhD)

• Postdoctoral listings
  University of Virginia

• Postdoctoral position 
  University of Iowa

• Postdoctoral Psychology Fellowship
  University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey 

• Postdoctoral Psychology Residency: Behavior Analyst 
  Florida State Hospital

• Postdoctoral research fellowship position 
  Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• Postdoctoral Residency (Fellowship) Program 
  University of Massachusetts Medical School

• Postdoctoral Scholar opportunity 
  University of Calgary, Canada in Career Development and International Transitions  

• Psychology Associate (Forensic Post-Doctoral Fellowship) 
  Central State Hospital

• Saint Elizabeth's Hospital

• Taylor Hardin Secure Medical Facility Postdoctoral Fellowship
  Contact Amber Simpler, PhD, for more details.

• University of Massachusetts Medical School

• University of Southern California Institute of Psychiatry, Law, and Behavioral Science

• University of Virginia Institute of Law, Psychiatry, & Public Policy

• University of Washington Child Study & Treatment Center 

• Virginia’s Western State Hospital

• Western State Hospital forensic psychology fellowship 
  Washington Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) and Western State Hospital (WSH)