Psychoeducational Tutor - Joseph Strayhorn (Ithaca, NY)

The Psychoeducational Tutor holds sessions by telephone with children or adolescents who need improvement in "psychological skills" such as anxiety-reduction, anger control, conflict-resolution, joyousness, decision-making, and others. The project also seeks to help children who need improvement in ordinary academic skills, such as reading and mathematics. The reason the sessions are held by telephone is so that they can occur frequently -- typically 6 days a week, half an hour each day -- without the need for transportation logistics. The children are mostly patients of the child and adolescent psychiatrist who directs the tutoring program. The intervention is "manualized" -- the tutor is not responsible for reinventing interventions. The sessions that occur within the "psychological skills track" have three parts: alternate reading aloud from manuals on psychological skills; taking turns in the doing of psychological skills exercises, and social conversation. Students on the "reading track" do work in a curriculum for the teaching reading skills, but rapidly move into reading passages that illustrate or explain psychologically skillful functioning. The tutor is paid directly by the family of the tutored student rather than by the director of the program. The tutor has an independent contractor relationship with the family. The payment is $200 per month of sessions carried out 6 days a week. This works out to a little over $15 per hour; it's less if you count the time in supervision and preparation and in doing some record-keeping regarding the sessions. But the time requirement outside the sessions themselves is fairly small. The sessions take place after school, usually in the hours between 3 pm and 7 pm. Most tutors take on no more than 4 children. Thus this is very much a part time post. The ideal candidate for this position enjoys working with children, has excellent appointment-keeping and organization skills, does not mind being tied down to nearly daily appointments, and can commit to continuing the tutoring with any one child for at least one year. The ideal candidate can speak very clearly and can speak with enthusiastic tones of voice. The ideal candidate does not mind both having the intervention specified very thoroughly, but also having to exercise some creativity and imagination in coming up with the specifics in exercises or in conversation. A background, or at least a strong interest, in psychology and education is very useful. For more information on the tutoring intervention, see psychoeducationaltutoring.com; for more on the manuals, see psyskills.com; for more on the director of the program, see josephstrayhornmd.com. People interested in doing this tutoring are invited to send a resume to Dr. Joseph Strayhorn at

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