Intern - Psychological Health

• Delivers manualized psychological health skills training content to Servicemembers in a small group format. The training is focused on teaching dialectical behavior therapy skills, safety planning, and other resilience-based, performance-focused skills. (training is provided for learning the protocol).
• Co-leads small-group skills training in direct collaboration with mental health professional group leaders. Interacts and engages with study participants.
• Performs research tasks for assigned project(s), including collection and organization of data, as well as basic data analysis and interpretation. Performs data entry for research projects and maintains databases.
• Performs administrative and coordination tasks. Assists with the preparation of technical reports, summaries, protocols, manuscripts.
• Maintains compliance with established research study safety and other procedures.
• May perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned or directed by the supervisor. This may include attendance of and participation in required training and supervision for role.

Join the HJF Team!

HJF is seeking an Intern - Psychological Health whose work will involve performance of a variety of laboratory tasks related to understanding the effect of traumatic brain injury to the stress axis. Will provide technical work involving a variety of laboratory support duties. These may include data acquisition, data analysis and assist in the interpretation of data.

This position will be in support of Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress and the SAFEGUARD research project. The Suicide Avoidance Focused Enhanced Group Using Algorithm Risk Detection machine learning and predictive analytics to identify soldiers at greatest risk for suicide, and deliver targeted interventions, trainings, and psychoeducation programs aimed at mitigating risk for suicide and other harmful behaviors. SAFEGUARD consists of three projects - Life Skills, Life Force, and Pathfinding - that will evaluate the effectiveness of three different targeted interventions. This role will support the SAFEGUARD Life Force project, which will be evaluating a group-based training through which Soldiers will learn and apply behavioral skills (including mindfulness, emotion regulation, and interpersonal skills) to increase mental toughness and decrease their risk for suicide.

The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine (HJF) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing military medicine. We serve military, medical, academic and government clients by administering, managing and supporting preeminent scientific programs that benefit members of the armed forces and civilians alike. Since its founding in 1983, HJF has served as a vital link between the military medical community and its federal and private partners. HJF's support and administrative capabilities allow military medical researchers and clinicians to maintain their scientific focus and accomplish their research goals.