Updated September 23, 2024
• Providing nursing and rehabilitation staff education and support
EBP Opportunities: Mostly short-term problem-focused or solution-focused therapy, with facets of ACT, CBT, MI, CPT, DBT skills. Also opportunities to implement behavioral interventions in dementia care. Cultural Competence Training: Trainees on this rotation will become familiar with special considerations in working with older adults. In addition, our CLC residents are often managing chronic health problems and disability. Trainees will gain competence in understanding the barriers that older adults and people with disabilities face in seeking and receiving treatment, the role of psychologists as advocates on interdisciplinary teams, and the ways other identity variables, such as race, religion, sexual orientation, gender, education level, SES, and cognitive status may intersect with aging and disability.
Training opportunities that are specific to the primary supervisor are as follows:
• Interns working with Dr. Morgan Macaluso would primarily work with veterans admitted to CLC for skilled nursing care and/or subacute rehabilitation, as described above. If interested, a trainee may also be involved with our inpatient hospice service. Hospice is a 17-bed service embedded within CLC that is staffed by a separate interdisciplinary team to provide comfort care to veterans with life-limiting illness. Hospice training opportunities include bedside psychotherapeutic interventions focused on end-of-life matters, anticipatory grief support and education to family, delirium identification and management, and interdisciplinary collaboration to facilitate comfort care. • Interns working with Dr. Phuong Chau would see Veterans either in the CLC (as described above) or at the Acute Rehabilitation Unit (ARU). ARU is a small (<10 bed) inpatient physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM&R) unit that provides intensive rehabilitation services to those recovering from acute surgery, stroke, brain injury, or other medical debility. The Intern will be working within an interdisciplinary rehabilitation team setting. Clinical opportunities can include: mood/adjustment assessment, brief psychotherapy, inpatient neuropsychological assessment, capacity assessment, family support and education, pain management support, motivational interviewing around health behavior changes, and interdisciplinary collaboration to help Veterans achieve optimal care and rehabilitation outcomes.
Note: This rotation is primarily onsite and will require the intern to be on-campus for majority of clinical duties/responsibilities, although there may be some opportunity for telework.
5. Geropsychology – Home Based Primary Care (HBPC) Supervisors: Angela W. Lau, Ph.D., Megan E. Gomez, Ph.D.
Program: VA Home-Based Primary Care (HBPC) is a program that provides comprehensive longitudinal primary care in the homes of Veterans with complex chronic disabling disease. The care is delivered by an interdisciplinary team comprised of medicine, nursing, social work, kinesiotherapy, dietetics, pharmacy, and psychology. HBPC manages (1) patients with multiple interacting chronic medical problems requiring interdisciplinary and longitudinal intervention to
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