> ![](media/image1.png){width="1.125in"
> height="1.6979166666666667in"}**Psychology Internship Program**
>
> **VA Central Iowa Health Care System**\
> Director, Psychology Internship Training Program (116B)
>
> 1515 W. Pleasant Street
>
> Knoxville, IA 50138
>
> \(641\) 842-3101, extension 6525
>
> ***\
> **<http://www.centraliowa.va.gov/>*

**MATCH Number: 124812**

**Applications due: November 15**

## Accreditation Status

The predoctoral internship at the VA **Central Iowa Health Care System
(VACIHCS) -- Knoxville and Des Moines Divisions --** is fully accredited
by the Commission on Accreditation of the American Psychological
Association.

The next site visit will be during the academic year **2011**.

## Application & Selection Procedures 

***Internship:*** Applicants for internship must be doctoral students in
an APA-approved clinical or counseling psychology program, who have
approval for internship status from their University Training Director.
They must be U.S. citizens. Applications for internship positions are
due at VACIHCS by November 15. For applications converted into an
electronic format, please follow APPIC\'s instructions.

***Please mail any other materials, if pertinent, to:***

> ***Tomas Gonzalez-Forestier, Ph.D.***
>
> Director, Psychology Internship Training Program
>
> VACIHCS (116B)
>
> 1515 W. Pleasant Street
>
> Knoxville, IA 50138
>
> *(641) 842-3101, extension 6525 (voicemail available)*
>
> *email: <tomas.gonzalez-forestier@med.va.gov>*

VACIHCS uses APPIC\'s Application for Psychology Internship (AAPI).

***Please note that applicants should submit the following items:***

-   APPIC Application for Psychology Internship ( AAPI)

-   A current academic vita

-   A grade transcript of undergraduate and graduate courses

-   A statement from the applicant summarizing why he/she wishes to
    receive training at VACIHCS.

Three letters of recommendation, including one from the applicant\'s
closest faculty advisor, stressing the areas of training that should
receive particular attention if the applicant is chosen as a trainee or
intern at VACIHCS. (Additional letters of recommendation are welcome.)

The above materials are needed at the time of application. Intern
applicants also MUST register for the Matching Program. After the
application deadline, the selection team screens the applications and
determines which do not represent a likely good fit between an applicant
and our program. Then all applicants will be notified of their
application status, including whether they will be interviewed. Group
interviews typically occur in January. The applicants matched to our
site will need to complete, after their selection, additional forms
required by our Human Resources office, including information like date
of birth and social security/insurance number.

***Psychology Setting***

Psychologists in Des Moines and Knoxville work in several
interdisciplinary areas including Mental Health, Extended Care, and
other specialty areas. Psychology uses a Continuous Quality Improvement
(CQI) approach to improve customer satisfaction. Through a course of
self-study, we developed the following mission, vision, and values
statements for our professional community, and attempt to live by them:

**The Mission** of VACIHCS Psychology Community is to provide a
comprehensive range of effective psychological services to veterans
including psychotherapy, assessment, rehabilitation and psycho
education, and to enhance patient care through collaboration with other
service providers. The Psychology Community also provides up-to-date
training for pre-doctoral students and supports medical center
functioning by providing Interdisciplinary Treatment Team (IDT)
facilitation, team building, staff education, program evaluation,
clinical research, and program coordination.

**The Vision**

To promote improved physical health, interpersonal functioning, and
emotional well-being, psychologists will provide effective, empirically
based and compassionate services by employees who are continuously
learning, dedicated and responsive to customer needs. Psychologists will
promote a collegial environment that fosters high morale, nurtures
individual potential, and maintains open communication and shared
decision making.

**The Guiding Principles**

***Individual Worth and Dignity:*** We believe that each person has
intrinsic value and should be treated with respect and compassion. We
appreciate the diversity in the customers we serve and in ourselves.

***Lifelong Learning:*** We encourage in ourselves and others the
development of improved skills, innovative thinking, self-awareness, and
improved ways of relating.

Quality is Paramount: To maximize veteran and employee success and
satisfaction, empirically-based assessments and other psychological
services are our number-one priority.

***Continuous Improvement is Essential:*** We strive for excellence in
everything we do: our relationship with veterans and their families; our
programs, facilities, equipment and services; and our relationship with
the community. Psychologists\' unique contributions as clinical
scientists are supported within our professional community and are
promoted in our relations with other professionals.

***Collaborative Involvement is Our Way of Life:*** We work together by
sharing information and ideas openly and honestly. We support each other
in supplying assistance, providing counsel, offering constructive
feedback, and giving encouragement.

Integrity is Never Compromised: We are personally and socially
responsible and earn respect by making a positive contribution to the
Medical Center, veterans, professional psychology, and society. We
strive to uphold the highest ethical standards of our profession.

***Customers are the Focus of Everything We Do:*** Our services are
provided with customer needs in mind and are reflected in exemplary
psychological services. We seek customer input and promote customer
involvement in our decision-making. We act as an advocate for veterans
as appropriate.

## Training Model and Program Philosophy

Training offered at VACIHCS provides practical clinical and counseling
experience with ongoing supervision and assessment of intervention
effectiveness. This program also is viewed as an integral part of the
VACIHCS mission of providing high quality patient care.

The VACIHCS internship provides students with a broad range of
experiences that are consistent with their goals and anticipated
professional roles. The appropriateness of these experiences depends
less on the label the intern\'s graduate program carries (counseling,
clinical, or combined professional-scientific) than on his/her
individual professional development. Sometimes interns have experienced
significant shifts in the professional identities they formed in
graduate school. VACIHCS designed the program to be responsive to these
shifts. Therefore, we allow the intern, with his/her graduate faculty,
to design the internship experience in collaboration with the Psychology
Staff at VACIHCS. Within the flexible framework, we do uphold minimal
standards in testing, therapy, teaching, and research to assure
experiences we believe all professional psychologists should receive
during their training. Likewise we seek a progression from the interns'
initial levels of knowledge, skill, and competence into intermediate and
advanced levels.

## Program Goals & Objectives

The basic goal of the Training Program is to provide a healthy
interaction between enhancing the quality of patient care programs and
providing professional growth opportunities for the psychology interns.
This naturally results in a more dynamic Psychology Community, with the
interns actively involved with the professional staff. The seasoned
professional staff can constructively help the interns find directions
for their goals and ideals. In turn, the interns challenge the staff to
more creative and innovative approaches by their energy and up-to-date
academic training.

We designed the training program to provide supervised diverse
experiences in assessment, therapeutic intervention, and program
development. Specialization occurs in response to specific intern goals.

***The program offers an opportunity for the student to***:

1.  consolidate and crystallize theoretical and empirical approaches to
    the study of behavior

2.  apply a broad spectrum of skills and strategies for assessment and
    therapy of diverse patients

3.  learn to work within the interdisciplinary approach to patient care

4.  gain general competence and confidence as an independent and ethical
    professional

5.  become more aware of oneself as a psychologist in various roles

6.  enhance one\'s professional scientific abilities through scholarly
    inquiry and clinical problem solving.

## Program Structure

The internship is a fully APA-approved, full-time, one-year program that
begins in early July. The intern is required to gain 2080 hours of
training during the internship year. A 40-hour week provides adequate
time in which to meet expectations for number of patient contact hours,
staffing, report writing, and various training activities. Some interns,
however, become involved in projects that take them beyond minimal
expectations. An intern may arrange a minor rotation for dissertation
research, under the supervision of a staff psychologist. We strongly
encourage interns who are required to complete a dissertation to do so
during internship.

**Course of the Internship:** During the first week, interns orient to
the Psychology Professional Community, get acquainted with policies and
procedures, and meet individual staff members. The Intern Training
Manual is required reading during the orientation period. At the end of
the orientation, interns draft a statement of training goals and
identify major and minor rotations for the twelve-month period. Interns
select the specific rotations and their duration and order to maximize
the achievement of each intern\'s training goals. Interns are free to
revise these plans as necessary during the year. A program usually
consists of three major rotations, each lasting four months, and some
minor rotations. Although the percentage of time spent doing assessment,
individual and group therapy, and consultation with the IDT may vary
widely between rotations, each intern participates in a minimum of ten
hours of patient contact, and two hours of supervision per week, in
addition to didactic training.

Major Rotation: An intern devotes a 20 to 24 hours (three days) per week
to the major rotation. These usually involve working in the areas
identified under the \"Major Rotations\" section of this brochure. While
interns do get the rotations they select, they sometimes need to
negotiate the sequence of rotations to accommodate the training goals of
other interns.

**Minor Rotations:** Typically, this involves one day per week or less,
is narrower in focus, and interns negotiate the content with the staff
member who will do the supervision. The rotation areas may be selected
from the same areas listed for major rotations or they may be special
projects. For example, an intern may work with the leadership of the
professional community to gain experience in administrative activities.
Another intern may work on dissertation research, or may develop skills
in logotherapy. Interns may carry the same minor rotation(s) across the
training year or may change them when they change major rotations.

Major Rotations: Available major rotations in Knoxville include Mental
Health Primary Care, Geropsychology, and the Day Program. Specifics
depend on the supervisors chosen and the nature of experiences sought by
the interns. The Des Moines Division offers the opportunity for major
and minor rotations focused primarily on Health Psychology, PTSD, and
Primary Home Health.

**The Day Program (Knoxville Division**) rotation provides outpatient
psychological services aimed at preventing psychiatric relapse and
re-hospitalization. The rotation focuses on services to veteran visiting
daily from the community (Day Program) and services to veterans in the
Domiciliary. The Day Program\'s format has been evolving recently on the
basis of the Recovery Model. Rotation objectives are to participate
effectively in a day program as a team member, develop/improve skills in
group and individual psychotherapy, develop skills in psychoeducational
services, particularly by presenting psychological \"jargon\" in
down-to-earth terms, develop/improve skills in documentation of
services, and develop/improve skills in psychiatric relapse prevention
and the Recovery Model.

*Activities in this rotation can include:*

-   to familiarize oneself with the whole program

-   interview newcomers to the Day Program and attend their orientation
    meetings

-   participate in short-term and/or long term group psychotherapy

-   observe and later present logotherapy classes every four weeks

-   participate in computer-assisted therapies

-   document services.

**The Geropsychology rotation** provides services to older veterans on
the Nursing Home Care Units (NHCU). Interns choose from among
specialized programs for long term psychiatric patients, dementia
patients, palliative care for terminally ill patients, for medically
frail elderly patients, and a physical rehabilitation unit. Psychology
provides consultation to the interdisciplinary treatment teams regarding
clinical and administrative issues in these programs as well as direct
services to veterans including psychological assessment, individual and
group therapies, and behavior management. Also, Interns typically
complete assessments of decisional capacity in older adults. Most
interns choose to do a rotation on the Rehabilitation Unit. Presenting
problems on the Rehab Unit include stroke, surgical recovery, general
physical decline, and recovery from serious accident. The treatment team
includes a physiatrist, nurse, social worker, and physical,
occupational, recreation, and speech therapists. The intern is an active
participant on the unit and is viewed as a valuable member of the
treatment team.

**The Mental Health Primary Care rotation** serves patients on the Acute
Psychiatry Unit, the Domiciliary Program, and the Out-Patient
population. This rotation provides opportunities to gain experience with
a diverse psychiatric population, from acutely and severely impaired to
those independently living in the community. Services emphasized include
assessment, consultation, intervention, management, research, and
teaching. The philosophical orientation is eclectic and integrative,
with an emphasis on a meaning-centered cognitive-behavioral orientation,
particularly Viktor Frankl\'s Logotherapy. Practical application and
demonstrated outcomes are stressed. 

**The Des Moines Division** is a medical surgical hospital, with
emphasis on outpatient care. Psychologists provide assessment and
treatment to medicine and mental health patients. The assessments
include diagnostic workups for mental disorders, competency, and
dementia. There is a Day Treatment Program as well as Domiciliary
programs for the treatment of PTSD and chemical dependency. Psychology
also offers smoking cessation treatment. Major or minor rotation goals
at the Des Moines Division are individually tailored to meet the
intern's specific training needs and interests. Recently added
experiences include Home Based Primary Care (HBPC), pain clinic, and
weight management..

**Supervision** of interns, trainees and other students at VACIHCS as an
educational activity has both formal and informal components. Interns
receive abundant informal supervision daily by staff and fellow
students. Formal supervision is provided according to the dictates of a
model designed to insure a minimum of two to three hours of structured
contact each week. We describe the components of this model below.

**Mentors.** Mentors will be selected by the interns within their first
month. The selection will be by mutual agreement with those staff
members who have made themselves available for such a role. Mentor and
intern will meet as frequently and for as long as helpful to the intern.
Mentors will encourage the interns and help them to stay on track toward
completion of their various competency requirements during the year.

**Rotation Supervisor:** This role is filled by the staff psychologist
responsible for the unit/activities on which the intern has elected to
do a major or minor rotation. Interns and major rotation supervisors
meet for a weekly formal, hour-long, task-oriented rotation supervision
meeting. The rotation supervisor completes a brief monthly evaluation of
the intern\'s work and forwards it to the mentor.

**Interdisciplinary Team (IDT) Meeting Attendance:** To involve the
intern in assessing the patients\' total needs and designing a
comprehensive treatment package, one hour of IDT attendance is expected
each week for interns who work on patient-unit rotations.

**Peer Supervision:** At least one hour of peer supervision is expected
each week. Generally, this involves interns meeting to discuss
internship experiences, therapy and assessment cases or issues.

**Director of Training Supervision:** Interns meet as a group with the
Director of Training for one-half hour each week, which helps the
Director toget to know the interns and to discuss administrative matters
with them.     

## Training Experiences 

At VACIHCS, interns provide and receive training.

***We require interns to demonstrate teaching competence by providing
presentations in several formats and having the product certified as at
least minimally competent by one or more VACIHCS psychologists
present:***

1.  psychoeducational modules for patients

2.  in-services to psychology staff

3.  other types of presentations. Interns receive educational
    opportunities such as didactic seminars and occasional on or
    off-station day-long workshops, which can help them to prepare a
    presentation.

Didactic sessions are offered several times a month. Interns\' needs and
interests, as well as staff areas of specialty, are considered when we
develop the training schedule each year. Selected titles of offerings
from these sources for the current and previous years are listed below:

**Therapy/Psychopathology Issues**

Logotherapy, treatment of dissociative disorders, brief therapy series,
psychopharmacology, PTSD therapy, hypnotherapy, treatment for
depression/anxiety, management of anger, schizophrenia, clinical
approaches to alcohol and drug treatment, Critical Incident Stress
Debriefing, treatment of sexual abuse/incest, psychological aspects of
illness, treatment of panic disorder, adult developmental stages and the
implications for therapy, atheoretical psychotherapy, stress
inoculation.

**Assessment/Diagnosis Issues**

Axis I assessment, assessment of personality disorders, assessing the
critical triad, seizure spectrum disorder, neuropsychological
assessment, assessing the elderly, dissociative disorders, differential
diagnosis, special assessments (e.g. Social Security Disability
examinations), fairness in psychological testing, forensic
psychology/custody evaluations.

**Other Issues**

Women\'s issues, men\'s issues, psychology of war, managed care
implications for practice, Bowen Family Systems, rural life issues and
mental health, psychology administration, Continuous Quality Improvement
(CQI) tools, patient education, interface of social and clinical
psychology, guidelines for providers of psychology services to minority
populations, multicultural/gay and lesbian issues, private practice
issues, avoiding burnout, scientist-practitioner model, sexual
harassment, the Learning Organization.

**Diversity Seminar**

Monthly presentations and/or discussions on topics of interest within
this area (some of the topics are listed above).

## Requirements for Completion

Criteria for Successful Completion of the Internship: By the end of the
training year, interns must meet or exceed minimal standards for
psychological assessment, therapy skills, research, and teaching. They
need a minimum of 520 hours of direct patient contact, at least 104
hours of structured didactic training on psychological topics, and at
least adequate recommendations for completion by the Training Advisory
Committee. To provide feedback and to assure progress toward successful
completion of the program, interns and their supervisors participate in
monthly constructive and mutual written evaluations of their work.

## Facility and Training Resources

**Offices:** Psychologists maintain staff offices in most patient-care
buildings of the hospital, with the Professional Community itself
(Psychology mailboxes, Psychology files, psychological testing, and the
Psychology conference room) centrally located. To facilitate intern peer
interaction, each intern has an individual office in the professional
community area. The interns may also have auxiliary office space
depending on the rotations chosen. The intern offices and furniture are
comparable to those used by doctoral staff, and the interns typically
personalize the decor to reflect their interests and taste.

**Library:** An excellent medical library of about two hundred journal
titles is available to interns and fellows at the Des Moines division.
The library has an extensive collection of psychology journals and it
provides Psych Lit and other databases on CD-ROM. In addition, Web-based
literature searches and some full-text journals are available.
Interlibrary loan services are available to interns, fellows, and other
staff.

**Computer Facilities:** VACIHCS has an active centralized computer
system that has many terminals and printers on all buildings, including
a terminal in each intern office at the Knoxville facility. The medical
center has a fully computerized patient records system (CPRS).
Psychology staff uses the mainframe system or personal computers for
progress notes, electronic mail, appointment scheduling, patient
information, and centralized testing.

## Administrative Policies and Procedures

**Due Process:** To take effect, a recommendation to terminate a
student\'s training from the Training Advisory Committee must receive a
majority vote of the psychologists on the Committee at a regular or
special meeting of that Committee. The intern will be provided an
opportunity to present arguments against termination at that meeting.
Direct participation by the Director of Training or designee from the
intern\'s graduate program shall be sought. If he or she is unable to
attend personally, arrangements shall be made for some means of on-line
communication.

Concerns of sufficient magnitude to warrant termination include but are
not limited to: a) incompetence to perform typical psychological
services in this setting and inability to attain competence during the
course of the internship; b) violation of the ethical standards of
psychologists; c) failure to meet the minimum standards for either
patient contact, didactic training or testing competence; and d)
behaviors which are judged as currently unsuitable and which hamper the
intern\'s professional performance.

## Training Staff

Listed below are the present staff who comprise the Psychology
Professional Community at VACIHCS. Psychology values the diversity of
orientations, training and backgrounds found within its staff. We
believe that such diversity is a necessary ingredient in serving our
patient population, and it provides students with a variety of role
models. Interns\' autonomy in selecting rotations maximizes the
opportunity to profit from this diversity. All psychologist supervisors
are licensed in the state of Iowa, and most are Health Service
Providers. New psychology positions are expected to be filled within the
next year.

***David Dettmann*** (Ph.D., Counseling Psychology; certificate Aging
Studies Program; University of Iowa, 1984) is the psychologist for the
grant-funded Cognitive Behavioral Social Skills Training for Serious
Mental Illness (CBSST-SMI) program. Prior to his reassignment to the
CBSST-SMI program in late 2005, he was Director of the Neuropsychology
Clinic (1989-2005), geropsychologist/neuropsychologist for the NHCU and
director of a NIMH-funded geropsychology post-doctoral fellowship
program (1984-1989), and developed/coordinated the Employee Wellness
Program (1985-2003). David enjoys gourmet cooking and dining, humor,
bowling, hosta collecting and is a certified show judge, chain sawing,
music, bicycling, walking, and is a retired volleyball enthusiast.
Volunteer activities include Board Chair for the Federal Employees
Credit Union, critical incident stress debriefing, American Cancer
Society boards/grant reviewing/advocacy/programs, and several other
organization boards of directors. Home repair, landscaping, and log-home
living have caused or found many of his neuropsychological deficits.
David is a former VACIHCS intern.

***J. M. \"Mike\" Gaffney*** (Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, Auburn
University, 1978) serves as a Clinical Psychologist. He currently spends
the majority of his time doing Compensation and Pension assessments with
veterans. His professional interests include strategic and provocative
psychotherapies. As has been true for several other former VACIHCS
interns, an interest in gerontology played a role in bringing Mike to
Knoxville. Subsequently, he has participated in treatment programs on
many of the units. He has reinvented himself as a triathlete, and
contributes exuberance and modest athletic ability to a volleyball team.
He is a participant in a group private practice with several other
VACIHCS psychologists and has offered courses through nearby colleges.
With David Dettmann, he offers stress debriefing through Central Iowa
Critical Incident Stress Debriefing Team.

***Tomas Gonzalez Forestier*** (Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, University
of Arizona, 1983) is a Clinical Psychologist who serves as Director of
Training. He consults with the Day Program and the Behavioral Health
Clinic. Some of his areas of interest include smoking cessation,
post-traumatic stress disorder, dissociation, minority affairs, and
issues related to victims of abuse. His duties include individual and
group psychotherapy, smoking cessation, psychoeducational classes for
patients, and disability evaluations.

***Tara Gordon-*** is the Psychology Aide, providing support to the
Behavioral Health Clinic and centralized testing. Prior to coming to the
Psychology department she worked in nursing at VACIHCS. Additionally,
Tara has worked for Home Health as a nurse, billing coordinator, and
Quality Assurance Officer. Spare time hobbies include family activities,
walking, reading, and attending sporting events.

***Steven Hagemoser*** (Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, University of
Kentucky, 2000) is a psychologist working in the PTSD program at the Des
Moines Division. His professional interests include personality theory,
personality assessment, and personality disorders. Special interests
include cognition and emotion relationships, particularly as they relate
to how emotion variables (e.g. mood, motivation, trauma) influence
cognitive processes. In his personal life, Steve has been a drummer for
years, but is working toward becoming a musician.

***Robert R. Hutzell*** (Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, Florida State
University, 1975) is one of our Clinical Psychologists in Mental Health
Primary Care and is Registry Officer for our APA-accredited CEU Program.
Bob has been involved in several professional organizations (including
President of the National Organization of VA Psychologists, President of
the Iowa Psychological Association, and a member of a number of
editorial boards). He holds a Diplomate in Logotherapy from the Viktor
Frankl Institute of Logotherapy. With his wife, Vicki, he publishes the
international journal Forum for Logotherapy. He is a Fellow of APA, and
is a nationally certified Health Service Provider in Psychology. He most
frequently employs cognitive-behavioral therapy and logotherapy. His
research interests include efficient + effective psychological
assessment and psychotherapy. He has published widely and has received
several national and international recognitions.

***Phyllis Martin*** (Psy.D., George Fox University, 2000) is the most
recently hired psychologist at VACIHCS. Her main assignment is with the
Home Based Primary Care (HBPC) program in the Des Moines area. Prior to
graduate school, Dr. Martin was a home health/hospice nurse on the
Oregon coast. Dr. Martin came to the Knoxville VA from Oregon to
complete her internship in 1999. Upon completion of her internship and
doctoral degree in July 2000, she began employment as a clinical
psychologist at the Iowa Veteran's Home where she continued to serve
veterans until her return to the Des Moines V.A. in fall 2007. As an
HBPC team member, she visits veterans in their homes and provides
psychotherapy, brief neuropsychological evaluations, and determination
of decision-making capacity. She also provides consultative services and
training as needed for the interdisciplinary treatment team members. In
addition to matters related to geropsychology, she is particularly
interested in the study and treatment of personality disorders. Dr.
Martin and her husband Steve enjoy attending a variety of music venues
(including jazz and blues), biking the beautiful trails of Iowa, and, of
course, visiting grand children in Oregon.

***Sandra Nett*** (Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1965) is a former Staff
Psychologist at the Des Moines Child and Adolescent Guidance Center and
a Consultant to the VACIHCS. Sandy consults about family and individual
therapy, particularly using a Bowenian approach. She has also taught
seminars on borderline personality and use of the Rorschach as discussed
by Exner.

***William Stearns (***Psy.D., Clinical Psychology, Indiana State
University, 1990) is a Clinical Psychologist working in the Extended
Care Service Line. His duties involve providing assessment, therapy, and
consultative services on the Nursing Home Care Units and Physical
Rehabilitation Unit. He most frequently utilizes meaning centered,
cognitive-behavior therapy. He is a member of the Palliative Care
Consultation Team, Extended Care Council, and the Clinical Advisory
Board. Professional interests include inferential errors in clinical
judgment and assessment of decisional capacity in older adults. Bill is
a former intern at VACIHCS. He enjoys table tennis and Wii based video
games.

***James Talone*** (Ph.D., Combined Professional Scientific \[Clinical\]
Psychology, Utah State University, 1983). Jim has worked at five
different VA facilities including his internship at Salt Lake City and
has been at Des Moines since 1987. He grew up in Philadelphia, served in
the Navy and after discharge remained in Hawaii. He attended the
University of Hawaii and got interested in teaching psychology,
hypnosis, and group psychotherapy. He worked in Addiction Treatment
programs there. He considers himself a generalist with specific
interests in neuropsychology, geropsychology, stress management, and
smoking cessation. His practice at the Des Moines Division is primarily
focused on psychotherapy, dementia and depression assessments, and
smoking cessation. He is involved in county and state-wide tobacco use
prevention and cessation. He enjoys bicycling and fishing.

## Trainees

**2008-2009**

Female Intern, Argosy University, Schaumburg Campus, Schaumburg, IL

Female Intern, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Chicago,
IL

Male Intern, Minnesota School of Professional Psychology at Argosy
University, Eagan, MN

**2007-2008**

Female Intern, Iowa State University, Ames, IA

Female Intern, Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, CA

Female Intern, Minnesota School of Professional Psychology at Argosy
University, Eagan, MN

**2006-2007**

Female Intern, Forest Institute of Profes. Psych, Springfield, MO

Female Intern, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN

Male Intern, Illinois School of Profes. Psych, Chicago, IL

**2005-2006**

Female Intern, Fielding Graduate Institute, Santa Barbara, CA

Female Intern, University of Maine, Orono, ME

Female Intern, Minnesota School of Professional Psychology at Argosy
University, Eagan, MN

**2004-2005**

Female Intern, Minnesota School of Professional Psychology, Eagan, MN

Female Intern, Minnesota School of Professional Psychology, Eagan, MN

Female Intern, Nova Southeastern Univ. Center for Psychological Studies,
Florida

**2003-04**

Female Intern. Immaculata University. Immaculata, PA

Female Intern. Minnesota School of Professional Psychology at Argosy
University. Twin Cities, MN

Female Intern. Minnesota School of Professional Psychology at Argosy
University. Twin Cities, MN

**2002-03**

Male Intern. Ball State University. Muncie, IN

Male Intern. The University of Montana. Missoula, MT

Female Intern. Minnesota School of Professional Psychology at Argosy
University. Twin Cities, MN

## Knoxville Information 

***Knoxville Facts:*** Knoxville, the county seat of Marion County and
home of eight thousand people, is located in central Iowa, about 35
miles southeast of the state capitol, Des Moines (pop. 220,000).
According to Morgan Quitno Press, Iowa in 1996 was named the healthiest
state in the nation. They also named Iowa \"most livable state.\"
Knoxville was a 1995 finalist (one of 33 nationwide) for All American
City. A variety of housing choices are available, including apartments,
duplexes, rental houses, and trailers. As you might expect, commuting
time in Knoxville is minimal (even for staff who walk or cycle to work),
and traffic jams are virtually non-existent! Knoxville\'s excellent
public schools are conveniently located. Please visit the Knoxville
Chamber of Commerce website at www.knoxville-iowa.com or the City of
Knoxville website at www.knoxvilleia.com.

***Recreation:*** Recreational opportunities are plentiful in the
Knoxville area. Recreation facilities at VACIHCS \-- primarily for
patient therapy but also available to employees \-- include bowling
alleys, tennis and basketball courts, a lighted softball field, and
picnic areas. Directly adjacent to the center grounds is the Marion
County Park with abundant areas for picnicking, fishing, hiking, and
camping. Also located in the park are a Little League ball field and the
Marion County Museum. Knoxville provides community chorus and community
theater groups, indoor swimming, racquetball, golf, tennis, basketball,
softball, and a popular, city-wide volleyball league. Knoxville is the
home of the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame and features dirt-track
racing on summer weekends, with the national championship races held
every August. The movie theater offers two first-run selections for a
small-town charge. The Knoxville Public Library offers modern
facilities. Lake Red Rock, the state\'s largest (9000 acres), is six
miles from Knoxville and offers an array of water sports and
bicycling/hiking trails. Nearby Pella holds a widely-acclaimed Dutch
Tulip Time festival yearly, and nearby Indianola hosts national hot-air
balloon races each summer. Des Moines provides the usual entertainment
found in larger cities.

Two state universities, each enrolling about 25,000 students, are within
a two-hour drive and offer a heavy schedule of sporting events, theater,
and musical entertainment. Several private colleges are nearby. In
recent years, Iowa universities and the Des Moines Civic Center have
hosted many popular entertainers, theater companies, and symphonies,
spanning the spectrum from the Rolling Stones to Victor Borge, from
Broadway productions of \"Les Miserables\" and \"Miss Saigon\" to the
Harlem Globetrotters, from Genesis to yearly productions of the Joffrey
Ballet. The Iowa State Fair, held in Des Moines each summer, also draws
national talent while retaining such traditions as the \"butter cow\"
and the hog-calling competition. Various tourist sites, a large
amusement park, and several historical attractions are located in
central Iowa.

Directions to VACIHCS: Knoxville is located 25 miles south of Interstate
80, taking the Newton Highway 14 exit (Exit 164). The VA itself is
bounded on the south by Highways 5 and 92, and on the east by Highway
14.

VACIHCS-Knoxville Division buildings spread across a 162-acre
tree-dotted campus. Free parking is liberally available.

***Des Moines Information***

Information about Iowa\'s capital is readily available per electronic
information means.

Commute time between VA Des Moines and Knoxville divisions is normally
about one hour.