Get Involved: Information for Graduate and Undergraduate students
Graduate Students
Periodically, the lab has openings for evaluators and group
leaders to work on the project. Evaluators are trained in our diagnostic
evaluation protocol using the K-SADS and/or the SCID. Evaluators are asked to
make at least a 2-year commitment to the project, and will follow a group of
adolescent participants and their parents during that time. Evaluations will be
conducted both over the phone and in-person, and will take place on both
weekday evenings and some weekends. Evaluators must be available to take part
in trainings and supervision meetings in addition to the evaluation meetings.
Graduate students may also get involved as group leaders,
either for the Interpersonal Psychotherapy – Adolescent Skills Training
(IPT-AST) intervention developed by Jami Young, or for the Coping With Stress
(CWS) intervention, a cognitive-behavioral prevention program. Both group
programs require two group co-leaders, and each group leader is asked to make a
2-year commitment to the project and take part in training and supervision
meetings. The prevention groups take place on weekday evenings and last for 8
weeks. The programs each include some individual meetings as well. IPT-AST
group leaders are supervised by Dr. Christie Schueler here at GSAPP. CWS group
leaders are supervised by an expert in this intervention outside of the
university.
Undergraduate Students
Each year, there are opportunities for undergraduate
students to volunteer and receive course credit as research assistants. Research
assistants will have the opportunity to assist with in person and phone
assessments with adolescents and their parents who are involved with the
project. In addition, research assistants will have the opportunity to gain
extensive research experience through their involvement in all phases of
research currently being conducted in the lab including lab material
preparation, data entry, and data analysis. Students can elect to receive
course credit each semester (PSYCH 495 or 496) for their work in the lab.
Research assistants attend a weekly lab meeting, commit to a weekly 4-hour time
block in which they will assist in the research lab, one evening per week where
they will be available to assist with assessments, and a full weekend day
(either Saturday or Sunday) every 3 to 4 weeks to assist with assessments.
Unfortunately our application deadline for the 2014-2015 academic cycle has passed. If you're still interested in learning when the next round of applications can be submitted, please contact us at micheline.anderson@rci.rutgers.edu.
