Adult Clinical & Health Psychology Fellowship
The goal of the Adult Clinical and Health Psychology Post-Doctoral Fellowship is to train fellows in the development of advanced clinical skills, interdisciplinary professionalism, and leadership in both clinical and health psychology for assessment and treatment of adult patients with a wide range of emotional, behavioral and health problems.
Our program of training is comprised of two APA psychology specialties: Clinical Psychology and Clinical Health Psychology. Our fellowship fits best for a psychology graduate who has previous adult clinical psychology training, counseling psychology training, or solid generalist skills in assessment and psychotherapy treatment with a background in adult psychopathology and psychotherapy interventions. It is anticipated that psychologists completing this training program intend to work with adult patients in multidisciplinary health care or community settings as a major emphasis for their careers. Satisfactory completion of this postdoctoral training program meets all postdoctoral supervised practice requirements for licensure in the state of Wisconsin.
During our one-year fellowship program, fellows provide a wide variety of traditional outpatient clinical services and integrated health psychology services in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, Department of Oncology and Hematology, Psychological Testing Service, Bariatric Surgery Program, and Primary Care Behavioral Health Service in the Internal Medicine Department. Fellows also provide services in conjunction with the Sleep Medicine Department. We follow a training model of structured skill development that entails shadowing, to supervised practice, to independent practice. Training for various services is guided by defined observable practice activities (OPAs).
Fellows receive two to three hours per week of scheduled individual supervision with additional supervision of direct clinical activities. Fellows gain 20–30 hours per week of clinical practice experience across diverse clinical services. Fellowship training is anchored by numerous didactic experiences including a weekly Adult Core Fellowship Seminar, monthly Professionalism, Ethics, and Leadership Seminar, clinical service team meetings, Grand Rounds, and other learning activities. Through these training activities, fellows gain both breadth and depth of clinical knowledge and experience.
The fellowship encourages use of a variety of therapeutic approaches grounded in evidence-based practice. Faculty supervisors are integrative in their therapeutic approach with an emphasis on Cognitive-Behavioral, Psychodynamic, Humanistic, Interpersonal, and Acceptance and Commitment therapeutic orientations. Fellows receive extensive training in assessment and intervention to include: diagnostic evaluation, psychological testing, consultation, individual therapy, marital/family therapy; and structured patient education. Fellows additionally gain experience working in multidisciplinary teams, interacting with administration, and engaging in program development and advocacy. We anticipate that graduates of this fellowship will progress in their careers to function at leadership levels.
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