Updated July 11, 2024
their Fellowship Project, and parts of the project may concur to meet other program requirements (e.g., running a group).
Fellows are also required to participate in BHIP Triage Clinic, offering two or more 60- minute evaluation and treatment planning sessions per week, which emphasize coordinating team services, using commitment strategies to engage patients in evidence- based treatment, and connecting patients to various treatment modalities. *Supervision with Dr. Glivings will only be offered in-person. Cultural Competence Training: Fellows will primarily work with Veterans spanning from the Vietnam era to the current OEF/OIF/OND conflicts era. In addition to the wide array of patient ages, Fellows working on this rotation will also see Veterans with diverse racial, ethnic, educational, and socioeconomic backgrounds. Moreover, occasional opportunities to work with LGBTQ patients also arise as well as addictions recovery. Supervisors will strive to expose Fellows to an intersectional approach to diversity consideration, whereby relevant background factors are taken into account during assessment, treatment planning, and intervention phases of therapy. Common issues associated with working in the VA setting, such as how to deal with encountering various forms of prejudice, will also be a focus.
Women’s Mental Health (WMH) & Trauma Emphasis Primary Supervisors: Shana Napier, Ph.D. and Grace Kim, Ph.D. Delegated Supervisor: Catherine Nash, Psy.D.
Founded in January 2005 through a VA Special Needs Grant, the Women's Mental Health Clinic (WMHC) serves women Veterans by providing gender-specific and sensitive services. The WMHC is unique in that 1) it is one of only a few dedicated women’s mental health clinics in the VA nationally, 2) it functions independently from BHIP and PCMHI, and 3) it affords the opportunity for training in a wide array of therapies to treat general mental health conditions, as well as specialized focus in learning treatments for PTSD. Our treatment philosophy follows a holistic and evidence-based approach, which influences our conceptualization of patients as well as the types of interventions that we use. The WMHC is currently comprised of licensed staff including three full-time psychologists, Dr. Shana Napier (Clinic Lead and WMH Champion), Dr. Grace Kim (Associate Director of Predoctoral Training), and Dr. Catherine Nash (Women’s SUD Psychologist). In addition, Dr. Kayla Costello (Part-Time WMHC psychologist), Jenny Williams, LCSW (full-time clinician), and Sandra Greenman (full- time women’s peer support specialist) make up the WMHC team. The team also regularly consults with psychiatry, primary care, and other specialty care staff outside the WMHC when appropriate in the service of patient-centered care. The WMHC offers a wide variety of evidence-based groups addressing topics such as race and resilience, emotion regulation, interpersonal effectiveness, harm reduction, PTSD, perinatal skills, and coping skills. The clinic also offers gender-specific SUD services and trainees may have the opportunity to co-facilitate the CBT for SUD group if interested. The Psychology Postdoctoral Resident in the WMHC focuses primarily on trauma-focused treatments (e.g, CPT, PE, Trauma Skills Group). There is flexibility for the WMHC resident
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