Elizabeth H. Connors, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry and in The Child Study Center, has been appointed director of training for the Yale Doctoral Internship in Clinical and Community Psychology.
Connors brings a decade of experience teaching and training pre- and post-doctoral fellows to this role, through her service as a clinical supervisor and research mentor at the University of Maryland Baltimore (2014-2019) and Yale School of Medicine (2019-Present).
She currently directs the School Mental Health Implementation Consultation and Research area at The Consultation Center at Yale. Her clinical expertise is in school and community mental health prevention, early intervention, and treatment services for children, adolescents, and their families.
She also provides community-based consultation, training and research to promote cross-sector collaboration among child-serving systems to improve access to and quality of mental health services for underserved youth and families.
She will replace David Klemanski, PsyD, MPH, assistant professor of psychiatry, who has been interim director of training for the past year. Klemanski will move to Harvard Medical School, where he will join the faculty and serve as chief of psychology for the Cambridge Health Alliance.
The Yale Doctoral Internship Training Program is one of the nation’s premier internships in clinical and community psychology, developing the next generation of leaders in this field. Fourteen pre-doctoral psychology fellows are accepted annually to the program, which has been accredited by the American Psychological Association since 1970.