Fellowships & Training

Over the past 25 years, we have trained more than 45 postdoctoral fellows, 135 doctoral psychology fellows, 30 social work trainees, a dozen psychiatric residents, and several dozen graduate students from different fields.

Our students are diverse and come from around the globe. They go on to careers in academia, clinical or community practice, medicine, public policy, education, nonprofit organizations, and government.

The Consultation Center at Yale is a multidisciplinary training site for undergraduate, graduate, and professional students in psychology, social work, psychiatry, nursing, education, public health, and divinity. Training is a central part of The Center's mission and integrated fully into service and research activities. Predoctoral Fellowship in Clinical & Community Psychology and Postdoctoral Training Program in Substance Abuse Prevention Research. If you are interested in an undergraduate or graduate internship opportunity, please email your resume and cover letter to susan.florio@yale.edu.

The major aim of the Pre-doctoral training program is to foster the student's acquisition of skills as a clinician, as a provider of clinical, consultative, and preventative services, and eventually as a clinical investigator. We emphasize the coordination of intensive, theoretically-based, supervised, clinical experiences with systematic evaluations of observations and assumptions made in clinical and community practice. Primary placement at the Center provides fellows with a range of community-based training experiences in consultation, prevention, program evaluation, staff development, and related research. Fellows receive professional training through project assignments under the supervision of faculty and staff. Click here for more information about the Pre-doctoral Training Program.

Two-year NIDA T32 Postdoctoral Fellowship: The Division of Prevention and Community Research, Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine.

The focus areas of the Research Training Program are aligned with NIDA’s Prevention Research Branch (PRB) and organized by place-based settings where research is anchored to systems and populations central to prevention, namely: 1) Community, 2) Education, 3) Healthcare, 4) Justice, 5) Social Services, and 6) Digital Delivery/Social Media. Additionally, this training program is organized along the continuum of prevention research from identifying mechanisms to prevent substance use and addiction, to developing, testing and disseminating interventions that address addiction and related problems.

The program emphasizes five research training objectives: 1) understanding drug use and addiction and related behaviors within an ecological framework that emphasizes relevant developmental, family, social, cultural, and neurobiological contexts; 2) enhancing knowledge in pre-intervention, implementation, and dissemination research; 3) learning state-of-the-art data analytic methods that incorporate rigorous field and laboratory research methods, including mixed method designs when appropriate; 4) gaining experience in interdisciplinary research through collaborations with scientists working in interdisciplinary teams across departments, centers, and programs; and 5) increasing knowledge and skill relevant to translation of research into real-world settings in order to impact prevention practice and policy, and ultimately, public health.

Please click here for more information about the program.