Responsibilities and Training
Fellow responsibilities and training experiences
- Conducting behavioral health assessments and providing individual and group psychotherapy using evidence-based interventions
- Conducting ADHD/LD evaluations (1 to 2 per month)
- Serving as behavioral health consultant and conducting targeted assessments and brief interventions as part of a primary care-behavioral health integration team
- Learning to implement an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) approach with a broad range of presenting concerns
- Participating in a chronic pain rehabilitation program that uses an ACT approach
- Providing collaborative care in an interdisciplinary Refugee Health Clinic serving patients from diverse cultural backgrounds
Psychology fellows work with economically and ethnically diverse patient populations at our Rardin Family Practice and CarePoint East locations. Common clinical issues addressed in these clinics include:
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Insomnia
- Grief
- Substance use
- Chronic pain
- Trauma
- Somatization disorders
- Health behavior change
- Chronic health conditions such as diabetes, headache, cardiovascular disease
- Acculturation and resettlement issues in immigrant and refugee populations