COPGTP Members List

Colorado State University (Psychology: Counseling Psychology Doctoral Program)

Program Name: Colorado State University, Department of Psychology
Location: Fort Collins, CO
Training opportunities: Counseling Psychology doctoral program (APA-accredited)
Clinical training settings: Long-term care facilities; outpatient psychological service center
Faculty clinical/research interests: long-term care/nursing home; end-of-life; psychotherapy with older adults; LGBT issues for older adults; geropsychology training
Contact person/info: Tammi Vacha-Haase, PhD; Tammi.Vacha-Haase@colostate.edu
Website address: http://www.colostate.edu/Depts/Psychology/ and http://www.colostate.edu/Depts/Psychology/counseling/great.shtml

Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology (PsyD Program, Aging)

Program Name: Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology (MSPP)
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Training opportunities: focus on clinical geropsychology within an APA approved PsyD program
Clinical training settings: Out-patient and day program practica and internship, community mental health centers; hospital based neuropsychology practicum
Faculty clinical/research interests: Personality disorders in old age; long-married(partnered);suicidal ideation in the very old; resilience in old age
Contact person/info: Erlene Rosowsky, Psy.D., Erlene_Rosowsky@mspp.edu; 781 449 4215
Website address: http://www.mspp.edu/academics/degree-programs/psyd/default.asp

University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa (Psychology, Clinical Geropsychology)

Program Name: The University of Alabama Clinical Geropsychology Training Program
Location: Tuscaloosa, AL
Training opportunities: Pre-doctoral training in clinical geropsychology
Clinical training settings: Mary Starke Harper inpatient geriatric psychiatry; Veterans Affairs Medical Center neuropsychology, mental health, and community living centers (including pending Green Houses); Elder Law Clinic Geropsychology Consultation Service, Hospice of West Alabama; West Alabama Rural Mental Health Clinic; outpatient geropsychology assessment and treatment through the UA Psychology Clinic
Faculty clinical/research interests: (in alphabetical order by faculty)
Allen: interventions to reduce the stress of family and professional caregivers and of older adults with terminal and chronic illness, the dynamics of healthcare decision making, older prisoners, and lifespan development
Black: age-related changes in attentional and semantic processes andage-related changes in episodic memory
Crowther (Director of Clinical Training): the nature, impact and consequences of custodial grandparenting as well as interventions to reduce stress in this population and the relationship between spirituality, mental health, and well-being across the life span
Parmelee (Director of the Center for Mental Health and Aging): late-life depression, the interaction of mental and physical health in older adults, the quality of formal and informal long-term care, staff interventions to improve nursing home quality, measurement of nursing home quality, and supportive interventions with family caregivers
Scogin: geropsychology, depression, and psychotherapy research, specifically the effectiveness of CBT with rural older home health care patients and memory and depression treatment for older adults
Snow: geriatric health services research, particularly nursing home quality of care, nursing home models of care delivery, nursing home organizational change, and models of dementia care delivery within primary care including the evaluation and management of pain in persons with dementia and the development and evaluation of assessments and treatments of other psychological disorders in persons with dementia.
Contact person/info: Rebecca S. Allen, PhD; rsallen@ua.edu; 205-348-9891 or 205-348-7518
Website address: http://psychology.ua.edu/

University of Colorado at Colorado Springs (Psychology)

Program Name: Clinical Psychology Ph.D. with emphasis in Geropsychology, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado
Training opportunities: Doctoral Training in Clinical Psychology with curricular emphasis in Geropsychology
Clinical training settings: CU Aging Center, a community-based mental health agency operated by the Psychology Department that includes rotations in: neuropsychology, psychotherapy, caregiver family therapy, integrated mental health within primary care, home-based mental health services, nursing home, PACE program, developmental disabilities, and senior housing consultation.
Faculty clinical/research interests: Aging-related mental health assessment, neuropsychological assessment, caregiver family therapy, vascular dementia and depression, suicide, trauma, behavioral interventions, dehydration in long term care, behavioral health interventions for diabetes, personality disorders, elder abuse, terror management theory, perception and attention, cognitive changes across the lifespan
Contact person/info: Daniel Segal, Director of Clinical Training; dsegal@uccs.edu; 719-255-4176; Psychology Department, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, CO 80933-7150
Website address: http://www.uccs.edu/~psych/pages/phd.htm

University of Louisville (Psychological & Brain Sciences)

Program Name: University of Louisville Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences (Clinical Program)
Location: Louisville, KY
Training opportunities: Geropsychology emphasis within a scientist-practitioner model Ph.D. program.
Clinical training settings: Geropsychology team practicum within Psychological Services Center; State psychiatric hospital rotation with older patients; nursing homes; primary care; pain clinic
Faculty clinical/research interests: Suzanne Meeks: Mental health and wellness in nursing homes; late life depression Benjamin Mast: Dementia, late life depression, geriatric assessment, vascular depression
Contact person/info: Benjamin Mast, Ph.D.; b.mast@louisville.edu; 502-852-3280
Website address: http://louisville.edu/psychology/doctorate/clinical-psychology

University of Massachusetts, Amherst (Psychology)

Program Name: Clinical Psychology Program, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Location: Amherst, Massachusetts
Training opportunities: Doctoral training, postdoctoral respecialization.
Clinical training settings: Practica available in university mental health clinic, neuropsychology outpatient and inpatient settings.
Faculty clinical/research interests: Personality development in midlife and later adulthood, neuropsychology assessment, mood and cognition.
Contact person/info: Susan Krauss Whitbourne, Ph.D., swhitbo@psych.umass.edu; Director of Clinical Training, David Scherer, dscherer@psych.umass.edu; 413-545-0662.

Website address: www.psych.umass.edu/clinical

   University of Southern California (Psychology)

Program Name: University of Southern California
Location:   Los Angeles, CA
Training opportunities: Doctoral program in clinical psychology with aging track
Clinical training settings: Tingstad Older Adult Counseling Center; Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center; USC Dept of Neurology; UCLA-NPI.
Faculty clinical/research interests: risk factors for dementia; age differences in emotion and cognition; cross cultural caregiving; health psychology.
Contact person/info: Margaret Gatz Ph.D., gatz@usc.edu
Website address: http://college.usc.edu/psyc/doctoral/areas-clinical-specialty-tracks.cfm

Washington University in St. Louis (Psychology)

Location: St. Louis, MO
Training opportunities: Doctoral program in clinical psychology
Clinical training settings: Outpatient geriatric mental health clinic; outpatient interdisciplinary geriatric evaluation; inpatient geriatric psychiatry; nursing home; inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation; Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center; hospice and palliative care
Faculty clinical/research interests: Psychological assessment and treatment of older adults, palliative care & hospice, family-based interventions in late-life, patient-provider relationships, neural basis of cognitive aging, cardiovascular health and brain integrity, cognitive training.
Contact person/info: Brian D. Carpenter, Ph.,D.; bcarpenter@wustl.edu; (314) 935-8212
Website address: http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~psych/clinical/

West Virginia University (Psychology)

Program Name: West Virginia University
Location: Morgantown, WV
Training opportunities: Geropsychological research and clinical training
Clinical training settings: Quin Curtis Center (older adult team within psychology department’s outpatient clinic); Family Medicine (geropsychology team in primary care setting); Hopemont Hospital (long term care facility with nursing home and psychogeriatric patients)
Faculty clinical/research interests: etiology of depression and suicidal behavior in late life and the implications for prevention, behavioral sleep medicine, medical decision making, capacity assessment, older anxiety, geropsychological assessment
Contact person/info: Barry Edelstein, Ph.D.; Barry.Edelstein@mail.wvu.edu; 304-293-2001, ext. 31661
Website address: http://www.wvu.edu/~psychology/index.htm/

Wheaton College (PsyD Psychology)

Program Name: Wheaton College Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology (APA Accredited)
Location: Wheaton, IL
Training opportunities: Generalist doctoral program in clinical psychology with opportunity to develop a focus in geropsychology/neuropsychology
Clinical training settings: medical settings & VA Hospitals; Community based agencies, including mental health agencies, community center with older adults program (Mood & Memory Clinic, community-based interventions)
Faculty clinical/research interests: community-based interventions to support ability of older adults to "age in place;" mid & late-life family issues; training issues in geropsychology
Contact person/info: Helen M. DeVries, Ph.D.; helen.m.devries@wheaton.edu; 630 752-7047
Website address: http://www.wheatongrad.com/PsyD_Clinical_Psychology

Xavier University (Psychology)

Program Name: Xavier University’s APA accredited Doctor of Clinical Psychology (Psy.D.)
Location: Cincinnati, OH
Training opportunities: Geropsychology area of interest with 4 required courses: Assessment of Older Adults; Health Issues in Geropsychology; Therapy and Psychopathology in Geropsychology; and Clinical Neuropsychology.
Clinical training settings: Rehabilitation Hospital (inpatient and outpatient assessment, therapy, and consultation); VA Medical Center (geriatric neuropsychology; intensive pain rehabilitation program); Nursing Home Settings (assessment, therapy, consultation); and Private Practice setting focused on older adults.
Faculty clinical/research interests: geriatric neuropsychology; applied research; gerontological education; and psychosocial oncology.
Contact person/info: John J. Barrett, Ph.D.; barrettj@xavier.edu; 513-745-4260

Website address: http://www.xavier.edu/psychology-doctorate/overview.cfm

Yeshiva University/ Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology (PsyD Clinical Psychology, Older Adult Program)

Program Name: Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology of Yeshiva University
Location: Bronx, NY
Training opportunities: Geropsychology “concentration area” within the Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program (PsyD); offers doctoral level didactic, research, and clinical training
Clinical training settings: Primary care clinic of affiliated public hospital; neuropsychology research clinic; University outpatient clinic.
Faculty clinical/research interests: Assessment and treatment of personality-disordered older adults, depression and suicide in the elderly, measurement of social adjustment, and gero-psychology training
Contact person/info: Richard A. Zweig, Ph.D., rzweig@aecom.yu.edu; 718-430-3958.
Website address:
http://www.yu.edu/ferkauf/page.aspx?id=16616&ekmensel=15074e5e_1380_1602_16616_1

Internship/Postdoctoral Training Sites

Bay Pines VA

Boston VA

Program Name: VA Boston Healthcare System:
Location: Boston and Brockton Massachusetts
Training opportunities: Geropsychology postdoctoral fellowship; Geropsychology internship rotation
Clinical training settings: Outpatient geriatric mental health clinic, Community Living Center (nursing home and rehabilitation care); outpatient interdisciplinary geriatric evaluation (neuropsychology training), inpatient psychiatry
Faculty clinical/research interests: medical decision making: capacity assessment, values; cancer survivorship in older adults, palliative care, nursing home culture change, geriatric neuropsychology, geropsychology training, psychotherapy with older adults
Contact person: Michele J. Karel, PhD; Michele.Karel@va.gov; 774-826-3725
Website: http://www1.va.gov/bostonpsychologyfellowship/

Center for Aging Resources (Heritage Clinic)

Program Name: The Center for Aging Resources’ Predoctoral Internship in Professional Psychology
Location: Pasadena, California
Training opportunities: Community gero-psychology; long-term and short-term psychotherapy with community dwelling older adults; largely low income, ethnically diverse population; neuropsychological assessment; consultation with community agencies.
Clinical training settings: Clients’ homes; skilled nursing facilities; outpatient clinic; assisted living facilities; other community sites.
Faculty clinical/research interests: Gero-psychology training; community psychology; depth-oriented psychotherapy; services for elders with dementia; services for elders with psychotic disorders.
Contact person/info: Janet Anderson Yang, Ph.D; jyang@cfar1.org; 626-577-8480.
Website address: www.cfar1.org

Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center Hub
(Joint Fellowship Program with the Palo Alto VA Health Care System and Stanford University School of Medicine, VA Special Fellowship in Advanced Psychiatry and Psychology)

Program Name: Advanced Fellowship Program in Mental Illness Research and Treatment
Location: VAs Nationwide
Training opportunities: Clinical research opportunities spanning multiple areas of mental health; multiple sites have a geriatrics focus in dementia and late life psychiatric disorders.
Clinical training settings: Varies by site.
Faculty clinical/research interests: Varies by site.
Contact person/info: Ruth O'Hara, PhD, Hub Site Fellowship Director / Sherry A. Beaudreau, PhD, Hub Site Fellowship Associate Director, 650-493-5000 ext. 64119 or Sherry.Beaudreau@va.gov for more information
Website address: http://www.mirecc.va.gov/mirecc-fellowship.asp

Minneapolis VA Medical Center (Predoctoral Internship in Clinical Psychology)

Program Name: Minneapolis VA Medical Center Predoctoral Internship
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Training opportunities: Geropsychology internship rotation, GRECC memory loss clinic
Clinical training settings: Outpatient geriatric mental health clinic, Community Living Center (nursing home and rehabilitation care); outpatient interdisciplinary geriatric evaluation (neuropsychology training), inpatient psychiatry
Faculty clinical/research interests: Family/couple's counseling, caregiver education and support services, functional implications of cognitive decline, mindfulness interventions for chronic pain, evidence-based interventions for PTSD.
Contact person/info: Wayne Siegel, Ph.D., ABPP; wayne.siegel@va.gov; 612-467-4024
Website address: http://www.minneapolis.va.gov/education/psychology/psyc_home.html

Piedmont Geriatric Hospital (Psychology)

Program Name: The JFS Collaborative
Location: In and around Richmond, Virginia
Training opportunities: One slot at one site within a predoctoral internship consortium (full-time)
Clinical training settings: Piedmont Geriatric Hospital slot: inpatient psychiatric hospital—dementia/skills preservation unit and forensic/behavior management unit rotations (each half-time and concurrent)
Faculty clinical/research interests: Behavioral interventions, ethics in psychogeriatrics, decision-making capacity, forensic evaluation, management, and treatment, interpersonal and psychodynamic psychotherapy, interdisciplinary treatment, cognitive and personality assessment
Contact person/info: Andrew L. Heck, Psy.D., ABPP; andrew.heck@pgh.dmhmrsas.virginia.gov; (434) 767-4582
Website address: www.pgh.dmhmrsas.virginia.gov/internship

Sharp HealthCare - Sharp Mesa Vista Hospital (Psychology)

Program Name: Sharp Mesa Vista Hospital Senior Intensive Outpatient Program/Inpatient Older Adult Program; Sharp Grossmont Hospital Senior Intensive Outpatient Program
Location: Sharp Mesa Vista Hospital-postdoctoral fellowship/internship rotation/ Sharp Grossmont Hospital internship rotation
Training opportunities: Geropsychology postdoctoral fellowship/ Geropsychology internship rotation
Clinical training settings: Intensive psychiatric outpatient program for older adults-group, individual, couples and family therapy, brief psychosocial assessment and cognitive assessment; training in medical-psychiatric interactions/health psychology with older adults; inpatient psychiatry; inpatient multidisciplinary team assessment and triage; possibility of consult liaison training if desired.
Faculty clinical/research interests: acute mental illness in older adults Axis I and Axis II disorders; personality disorders in older adults; development of specific CBT and DBT interventions for this population; in the fall starting program development for opiate dependence/chronic pain program for this population; neurocognitive screening; health psychology/behavioral medicine interventions with older adults; community education and advocacy for older adults
Contact person/info: Training Director: Ira Grossman, Ph.D., ABPP, Ira.Grossman@Sharp.com; Mesa Vista Hospital Internship & Fellowship Supervisor: Kristie Earnheart Ph.D., Krisite.Earnheart@Sharp.com; Sharp Grossmont Hospital Internship Supervisor: Lynn Northrop Ph.D., Lynn.Northrop@sharp.com
Website address: www.Sharp.com/APPIC

University of Illinois at Chicago (Psychiatry)

Program Name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Location: Chicago, IL
Training opportunities: Internship and postdoctoral fellowship with geropsych experiences
Clinical training settings: Inpatient medical setting, outpatient health psych clinic, outpatient neuropsychology clinic.
Faculty clinical/research interests: Capacity assessment, dementia/delirium, health psychology, neuropsychology.
Contact person/info: Susan Labott, Ph.D., ABPP, slabott@psych.uic.edu
Website address: www.psych.uic.edu/internship/index.htm

University of South Florida (Aging & Mental Health)

Program Name: University of South Florida Department of Aging & Mental Health Disparities (AMHD)/ School of Aging Studies (SAS)
Location: Tampa, Florida
Training opportunities: Currently AMHD offers a post-doctoral research fellowship in aging & health disparities. SAS offers a PhD in Aging Studies.
Clinical training settings: Previously we had a joint USF/James A. Haley VA geropsychology post-doctoral fellowship program in public sector interdisciplinary training featuring rotations in long term care, neuropsychology, health, and rehabilitation. I also recently supervised an assisted living facility rotation through the Florida Mental Health Institute’s pre-doctoral psychology internship program. However, we offer no clinical experiences at this time. We plan to apply for funding soon.
Faculty clinical/research interests: Mental health in long term care; substance abuse in older adults; behavioral health disparities; homicide/suicide/violence in long term care; depression in primary care; cognitive aging; hospice; and veterans’ mental health.
Contact person/info: Victor Molinari, Ph.D., ABPP, vmolinari@fmhi.usf.edu; 813-974-1960
Website address: http://amhd.bcs.usf.edu/

University of Texas Medical Branch (Rehabilitation Sciences)

Program Name: The University of Texas Medical Branch
Location: Galveston, Texas
Training opportunities: Clinical Health Psychology Postdoctoral Training Program (APA Accredited)
Clinical training settings: Geropsychology rotations include: Acute Care for Elderly (ACE) Inpatient Unit; Chronic Medical Condition rotations include: Chronic Pain (Neurology & Anesthesiology Pain Center), Transplants for liver, kidneys, heart, and lungs (Transplant Center); Rehabilitation and neuropsychology (Transitional Learning Community).
Faculty clinical/research interests: Sealy Center for Aging; Division of Rehabilitation Sciences; Education and Training in Psychology;
Contact person/info: Jeff Baker, Ph.D., ABPP; jbaker@utmb.edu; 409.747.2250
Website address: https://www.utmb.edu/psychology

VA New York Harbor Healthcare System (Brooklyn Campus)

Location: Brooklyn and Queens
Training opportunities: Geropsychology postdoctoral fellowship; Geropsychology internship rotation
Clinical training settings: Outpatient geriatric primary care clinic (includes an Octogenerian Clinic), Palliative Care (nursing home, medical inpatient units and outpatient clinic); Memory Disorders Clinic (neuropsychology training), Oncology (Chemotherapy Clinic, Radiation Therapy Clinic and Inpatient Cancer Care Unit), Home Based Primary Care
Faculty clinical/research interests: palliative care intervention and competencies, dignity therapy and oral history collection with older adults, culture change in medical units and nursing home, geriatric neuropsychology in palliative care and oncology, caregiver assessment and quality of life, geropsychology advocacy and public policy
Contact person: Donna Rasin-Waters, Ph.D., Donna.Rasin-Waters@va.gov; 718.836.6600 x3406,

Mercer School of Medicine and Georgia Neurosurgical Institute

Location: Macon GA, with affiliate medical center in Savannah, GA
Training opportunities: Geropsychology postdoctoral fellowship;
Clinical training settings: Primary Care Clinic, Inpatient Psychiatry Unit, Palliative Care Program, Long term care facilities, Neurosurgery patients, Pain and Sleep Clinic, Rehabilitation Hospital, Outpatient Neurodegenerative Clinic and Memory Program.
Faculty research interests: Palliative care models of psychological intervention; diabetes and anxiety/depression/cognition, spinal chord patients and pain, post-CBBG adjustment, neuroprotection in Parkinson’s disease, pluripotent stem cells and neurodegenerative regeneration, geriatric neuropsychology, assessment measures, personality at late life.
Contact person: Lee Hyer, Professor of Psychiatry, Mercer School of Medicine, GNI, 840 Pine St, Suite 880, Macon, GA., 31201; leehyer@ganeurosurg.org; 478-952-5936
Website: http://www ganeurosurg.org

Post-licensure Training

Gregory A. Hinrichsen, Ph.D.

Member Name: Gregory A. Hinrichsen, Ph.D.
Location: New York, N.Y.
Training opportunities: Introductory and Intermediate Workshop Training on: Geropsychology, Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Late Life Depression
Clinical training settings: In-person and distance supervision of professionals acquiring competency in the delivery of Interpersonal Psychotherapy to older adults
Faculty clinical/research interests: Late life depression; psychotherapy to older adults; geropsychology education & training; family caregiving; mental health and aging public policy
Contact person/info: Gregory A. Hinrichsen; geropsychgah@aol.com
Relevant Website resources:
APA Videos: http://www.apa.org/videos/4310796.html
APA Books: http://books.apa.org/books.cfm?id=4317102

Joseph Casciani, Ph.D., Concept Health

Program Name: Concept Healthcare, LLC
Location: Main office in San Diego, California; services delivered in multiple locations and states, plus online training programs for professionals working with older adults
Training opportunities: Training for licensed psychologists is provided online, via phone, and onsite, and consists of applying psychological and geropsychological principles to professional behavioral health services with older adults.
Clinical training settings: Settings will vary depending on where psychologists are working, and where they apply the content provided from the online courses. For practitioners affiliated with Concept Healthcare, services are delivered to residents in rehabilitation units, skilled nursing, and residential / assisted living settings.
Faculty clinical/research interests: integrating behavioral health services within the total care provided in LTC; addressing psychological complications that interfere with or complicate the management of medical conditions in older adults
Contact person/info: Joseph M. Casciani, Ph.D.; 858-272-3992; jcasciani@cohealth.org
Website address: www.cohealth.org

Associate Member

Office of Mental Health Services, Department of Veterans Affairs

Contact Person: Toni Zeiss, Ph.D., Antonette.Zeiss@va.gov

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Last updated: October 14, 2009