Chicago | Associate Director of Training and Associate Professor, Clinical Psychology (Psy.D.)
I have truly come to appreciate the integration of clinical psychology and social responsibility that Adler University achieves through its mission to engage future clinicians in an understanding of the multiple roles that psychologists adopt as they engage the community as practitioners and scholars. I believe that teaching graduate students a knowledge base in evidence-based practice needs to include a level of critical thinking that integrates an understanding of human diversity, the importance of socio-cultural context, and a need for both the prevention and amelioration of psychopathology. The classroom should be more than a vehicle to disseminate factual knowledge; it should also provide an environment that helps students become curious to explore both the professional and personal sides of their overall development as future psychologists.
My clinical interests include community mental health, supervision and training, trauma, grief and loss, assessment, and psychotherapy with children and adolescents. In my work with individuals across the lifespan, I have come to understand the vital role that psychologists play in helping communities beyond the provision of psychotherapy. Advocacy, psycho-education, coalition building, and program development and outreach are also major areas of practice for clinical psychologists. I enjoy helping our students begin to understand and assume roles in these essential areas of practice as they grow as clinical psychologists who work from a community-centered framework.
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