• Are you looking for a post-doc position starting next summer/fall (2025)?
• Are you interested in mechanisms (personality) of psychopathology (BPD)?
• Do you want to learn more about conducting treatment outcome research + get hours for licensure?
• Do you want ~20 hours/week of research time and access lots of archival mechanism/treatment data?

Matt Southward (at Ohio State) and Shannon Sauer-Zavala, Ph.D (at the University of Kentucky) have the post-doc for you (you can apply here: https://ukjobs.uky.edu/postings/550856) 

Here are the details:
We are seeking 1-2 postdoctoral scholars (in person at UK) who will primarily be involved in the treatment, assessment, and analyses of our NIMH-funded clinical trial, “Engaging Higher Order Mechanisms of Psychopathology: A Parsimonious Approach to Precision Medicine.” We are testing if discrete cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) modules can engage higher-order personality vulnerabilities (neuroticism, antagonism, disinhibition) and if matching modules to patients’ personality profiles results in efficient improvements in psychopathology symptoms (learn more about the project here). Postdoctoral scholars will serve as study therapists or study assessors, which will provide supervised hours for clinical licensure. They will have the opportunity to participate in tiered supervision of graduate student clinicians and provide research mentorship to the group’s graduate students and post-baccalaureate project coordinators. Postdoctoral scholars will typically have 20 hours per week of protected time for scholarly activities (manuscript preparation, grant writing) with access to ample archival data from two completed and two ongoing clinical trials examining the mechanisms and personalization of CBT to support this work. 

If this sounds like a good fit for you, send your application!

Shannon Sauer-Zavala, Ph.D.

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