> ![](media/image1.png){width="1.125in" height="1.125in"}**Psychology
> Internship Program**
>
> **VA Northern California Health Care System**\
> 150 Muir Road
>
> Martinez California, 94553
>
> \(925\) 372-2138***\
> **<http://www.northerncalifornia.va.gov/>*

## Accreditation Status

The predoctoral internship at the VA Northern California Health Care
System is fully accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of the
American Psychological Association (the next site visit will be during
the academic year 2013).

## 

## Application & Selection Procedures 

***Positions***

We anticipate 5 positions in 2009-2010 with a stipend of \$26,186 (plus
benefits). We do not offer non-funded internship positions.

***Match numbers:***

For our General Track (typically four positions) our **APPIC match
number is: 114112**

For our Neuropsychology Track (typically one position) our **APPIC match
number is: 114113**

***Applications***

Applicants must meet all requirements for VA internship eligibility as
described in the parent VA Psychology Training Website.

### APPLICATION MATERIALS 

Application materials can be downloaded from the APPIC site
([www.appic.org](http://www.appic.org/)). We are using the uniform APPIC
application. Please ensure that you complete the application carefully,
specifically addressing your interests in our program. In addition to
the completed application form, we require letters of recommendation
from three references, a curriculum vita, and transcripts from all
graduate programs attended (copies are acceptable). Please enclose all
materials in one envelope. All applications and supporting materials
must be received by November 1, 2008. Applicants are encouraged to
complete the application as early as possible before that deadline so
that ample time will be available for application review.

***Application materials can be mailed to:***

> **Joel Schmidt, Ph.D.**

Director of Psychology Training

VA NCHCS (116)

150 Muir Road

Martinez, California 94553

***Selection Procedures***

We have a two-part selection procedure. First, application materials
from eligible candidates are independently reviewed and evaluated by at
least two members of the internship faculty. Competitive applicants are
invited for a formal interview. Interviews are an integral aspect of our
selection process, and an on-site interview is required. We will notify
applicants of their interview status by December 15, 2008.

Upon the completion of our interviews, we rank order applicants in terms
of their suitability for our program. In accordance with APPIC
guidelines, applicants who will not be considered for an internship
position will be notified as soon as possible in the selection process.

***Interviews***

We schedule interviews during five \"open house\" dates. These dates
provide the opportunity to learn more about our program and meet with
the training director, several training staff members, and current
interns.

***Our open house dates for 2009 will be:***

> *Monday, January 5th*
>
> *Wednesday, January 7th*
>
> *Tuesday January 13th*
>
> *Tuesday January 20^th^*
>
> *Thursday January 22^nd^.*

![](media/image3.jpeg){width="2.2493055555555554in"
height="1.75in"}***Psychology Setting***

*Martinez VA Outpatient Clinic, Center for Rehabilitation and Extended
Care (CREC), and Oakland Mental Health Clinic*

The Clinical Psychology Internship Program sponsored by VA Northern
California Health Care System, in affiliation with the Department of
Psychiatry at the University of California, Davis School of Medicine, is
a full-time APA-approved clinical internship providing 2000 hours of
clinical experience. We offer training in a wide variety of clinical
settings with diverse patient populations oriented to prepare
psychologists to effectively respond to the challenges and changes in
the modern health care environment.

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Our internship program, first accredited by the American Psychological
Association in 1977 at the Martinez VA Medical Center, was the first VA
internship program in California to be accredited. We continue this
tradition of excellence in internship training while evolving in
response to the changes within VA and health care service delivery.

***U.C. Davis Medical Center and Department of Psychiatry***

In order to broaden the training opportunities for interns, we developed
training rotations within the clinical settings and services of the
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at U.C Davis School of
Medicine and the U.C. Davis Medical Center. The Department offers a rich
and intensive academic environment dedicated to excellence in training.
Psychology interns work closely with psychiatry residents and medical
students in clinical settings and have the opportunity to participate in
the rich educational programs in the Department of Psychiatry. These
programs are built upon the considerable resources of the U.C. Davis
Medical Center. They offer a diverse range of inpatient and outpatient
services. Internship training is concentrated in several of the programs
in the medical center including adult and child consultation-liaison
services, and inpatient psychiatry. These rotations permit interns to
gain experience in the evaluation and treatment of adults, children,
adolescents, and families.

## Training Model and Program Philosophy

## The model we use to develop competencies and skills required to be an effective psychologist is best characterized as scholar-practitioner. We view internship training as a time for intensive clinical training to develop the requisite skills for entry into the practice of professional psychology. As a consequence of internship training, we expect our graduates to perform competent comprehensive assessments of behavioral, cognitive, and emotional problems, to deliver a wide variety of therapeutic interventions tailored to the needs of various clinical settings, to function effectively as consultants in health care settings and as members of multidisciplinary teams, and to practice in a highly ethical and professional manner, appreciating cultural and individual differences and using the scientific literature to inform clinical practice.

## Program Goals & Objectives

### Training Competencies

Internship training competencies are designed to build upon the basic
clinical competencies acquired in graduate training. We have identified
training competencies in seven broad areas: psychological assessment;
psychotherapeutic intervention; interdisciplinary consultation;
multidisciplinary treatment planning; ethical and professional
development; cultural and individual differences; and scholarly inquiry.

***Psychodiagnostic Assessment and Evaluation***. Interns are expected
to refine their abilities to make a comprehensive assessment of the
nature of an individual\'s behavioral or emotional problems. Such
competency requires enhanced knowledge of psychopathology, personality
development, neuropsychology, and the interpersonal and socio-cultural
context in which individuals live. Interns are expected to develop
skills with commonly used psychological tests and assessment methods,
and refine the skills necessary to tailor assessment to the specific
requirements of the patient\'s unique problems and the clinical setting
(e.g., psychiatric, general medical, neurological, substance abuse).

***Psychotherapeutic Intervention.*** A major objective of internship
training is to further the development of flexible and effective
psychotherapeutic skills. Interns are expected to hone their skills in
individual and group outpatient interventions with adults in both brief
and long-term modalities, with an emphasis on psychodynamic and
cognitive behavioral interventions. Additionally, rotation training
experiences provide opportunities for developing competencies in a
variety of techniques such as hypnosis, biofeedback, relaxation
training, stress management, anger management, and pain management.

***Interdisciplinary Consultation.*** Interns are expected to build
competencies as consultants to allied health practitioners. Consultation
skills build on other clinical skills (i.e., assessment), as well as
overall knowledge of clinical, medical, and community psychology.
Interns are expected to develop competency in assessing the needs of
consulting practitioners, and in communicating information and
recommendations (verbal and written) that are timely, clear, accurate,
and useful. Interns also have an opportunity to develop preliminary
consultation competencies in several specialty areas of clinical
psychology.

***Multidisciplinary Treatment Planning.*** Psychologists routinely
function as members of multidisciplinary treatment teams in clinical
settings. Interns are sensitized to the roles of the psychologist as a
team member in a variety of settings, and participate in team treatment
planning in order to enhance their abilities to work cooperatively with
other health care professionals.

***Ethical and Professional Development.*** The internship program is
committed to fostering the development of identity as a professional
psychologist, and the values and ethics of the profession of psychology.
Interns are sensitized to racial, cultural, and gender-related issues in
clinical practice; issues of institutional affiliation and dual
relationships; and roles and values of professional psychologists in
clinical practice, training, and research. Development of professional
identity is facilitated by training and supervision.

***Cultural Diversity and Individual Differences.*** We value cultural
and individual diversity in our interns and in their experiences.
Interns enhance their knowledge of, and appreciation for, the role of
cultural diversity and individual differences in professional practice
through didactic and experiential training in multicultural issues, and
through exposure to a culturally and personally diverse patient
population.

***Scholarly Inquiry.*** We do not require that interns engage in
research while on internship. However, we expect our interns to
effectively utilize the scientific literature to inform clinical
practice, and demonstrate a scholarly approach to clinical practice that
includes critically evaluating research findings and applications. We
also encourage interns to pursue scholary projects as part of their
professional development.

## Program Structure

***Internship structure***

The internship starts on or about September 1st each year and lasts for
a full calendar year until August 31st. Interns work from 8:00-4:30
Monday through Friday. The internship is designed to involve 40 hours
per week though occasionally additional time might be necessary to
complete clinical tasks, such as assessment reports. Interns spend
various parts of the week at the VA facilities in Oakland and Martinez,
and possibly at UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento. The typical
weekly schedule for interns is as follows:

> **MONDAY**
>
> Mental Health: Psychodynamic/ Time Limited Dynamic Psychotherapy in
> Martinez
>
> **TUESDAY**
>
> Rotation: location varies (3 rotations, 4 months each)
>
> **WEDNESDAY**
>
> A.M. didactics in Martinez
>
> P.M. integrative clinic in Oakland or Martinez
>
> **THURSDAY**
>
> Rotation (same as Tuesday)
>
> **FRIDAY**
>
> Mental Health: CBT in Oakland

***Supervision***

Supervision is the primary vehicle for experiential learning and role
modeling. Every effort is made to provide interns with an opportunity to
broaden their professional thinking through exposure to supervisors
representing diverse clinical and theoretical orientations. Interns may
also engage in supervision with professionals from other mental health
disciplines.

Interns receive a minimum of one hour per week of individual supervision
from a qualified supervisor in each rotation or training experience. As
such, interns have three or more hours of individual supervision per
week. In addition, interns receive an additional two hours of group
supervision each week in case-centered psychotherapy supervision (Time
Limited Dynamic Psychotherapy), an hour a week of group supervision in
CBT and 90 minutes per week of group supervision of group psychotherapy.

***Evaluation***

Evaluation is an integral component of the training program. It serves
to assure quality performance and accomplishment of training objectives.
Regular informal and formal evaluation provides feedback about intern
performance, ensures timely identification of clinical weaknesses or
deficiencies, and guides active remedial efforts. In addition, interns
provide routine program evaluations designed to assess the effectiveness
of the program and staff in accomplishing training objectives.

> ***Performance Evaluations*** At the outset of each training
> experience, interns and supervisors develop a formal training plan
> outlining training objectives, required activities, and caseload
> guidelines for the intern on that rotation. Frequently during the
> rotation, supervisors and interns review the intern\'s progress in
> achieving the rotation training objectives, and identify areas
> requiring improvement. Any necessary changes in the training plan are
> made as needed. Upon completion of the rotation, interns receive a
> formal performance evaluation by their clinical supervisors. For the
> year-long Mental Health training experiences, formal written
> evaluations are provided at midyear and again at the end of the
> internship year.
>
> Feedback about each intern\'s progress in the program is provided to
> the Training Director of the intern\'s graduate program at the midyear
> evaluation and again at the end of the internship.
>
> ***Program Evaluation*** Continuous quality improvement is a major
> component of the internship program and feedback from interns is
> essential in evaluating and improving the quality of internship
> training. In addition to regular opportunities for feedback through
> supervisory meetings, opportunities for interns to provide direct
> feedback about the training program are afforded through regularly
> scheduled group feedback sessions with the Training Director.
> Additionally, interns are asked to provide formal feedback about their
> experiences at the completion of rotations. At the end of the training
> year, interns complete a comprehensive evaluation of the program with
> the training director. This information is used to improve programming
> for the next training year. Graduates of the program are surveyed
> periodically to determine how well the program has prepared them for
> their subsequent careers.
>
> Continued monitoring of training effectiveness is a primary function
> of the Psychology Training Committee, which meets a minimum of once
> per month. One intern sits on this committee to represent intern
> interests. Periodic internship faculty retreats are held to focus
> exclusively on the evaluation of training standards and objectives,
> and on program and curriculum development.

## Training Experiences 

The internship training program is structured so that core training is
provided in outpatient mental health clinical settings and in primary
care/behavioral medicine. Interns choose additional training rotations
from several specialty areas (e.g., consultation-liaison psychology
rotations, neuropsychology, substance abuse, UC Davis Inpatient
Psychiatry).

### Core Training Experiences

***Mental Health.*** Comprehensive, multidisciplinary outpatient mental
health clinics at the Martinez and Oakland Outpatient Clinics serve as
the primary training sites for core training opportunities in
psychological assessment, and in individual and group psychotherapy. We
commit 2 ½ days per week to training in these competency areas. All
interns participate in a psychodynamic psychotherapy clinic at the
Martinez site one day per week and in a cognitive-behavioral therapy
clinic at the Oakland site for an additional day. These clinics are
intended to provide intensive training in these two individual
psychotherapy treatment modalities, and include focused didactics and
case-conferences. Interns also spend an additional half day per week at
one of the clinics (Typically, 2 or 3 interns are assigned to the
Oakland clinic and 2 or 3 are assigned to the Martinez clinic). During
this period, interns engage in additional psychotherapy experiences
(individual and group), as well as psychological assessment. As a
function of competency training in group psychotherapy, interns are
required to co-lead a process psychotherapy group for the entire year,
and participate in a group supervision seminar. Interns have the
opportunity to develop skills in clinical supervision through diadtic
instruction and experience supervising practicum students. Interns spend
four days during the training year working with a staff psychologist in
Mental Health Triage

***Primary Care-Behavioral Medicine***. Comprehensive and continuous
medical care is orchestrated by primary care teams at each of the
outpatient medical clinics of the VA Northern California Health Care
System. Primary care settings are fast becoming a major forum for
providing timely and effective mental health services. As a result, we
have established a rotation in Primary Care Behavioral Medicine services
at the Martinez Outpatient Clinic. Activities within this rotation
include spending two mornings each week in the primary care clinic
providing on-site psychological services for patients, as well as
additional rotation time responding to a variety of consultation
requests. Interns are also integrated into the primary care teams and
attend team meetings to coordinate patient care, and provide ongoing
consultation and education to the members of the primary care team.

Training experiences associated with this rotation provide interns with
an opportunity to enhance their understanding of the inter-relationships
of psychological processes and medical illness, and to learn the
evaluative and intervention techniques utilized by professional
psychologists working in primary care settings. Interns are introduced
to the roles of psychologists within the medical system, the functions
of psychologists on interdisciplinary teams, and the skills required to
communicate meaningful psychological information to professionals
outside the mental health arena. Consultation requests frequently
involve differential diagnosis of psychiatric presentations in medical
illness, evaluation of and intervention with medical patients having
chronic pain conditions, difficulties with adherence to medical
treatment regimens, sexual dysfunction, and adjustment problems
associated with acute and chronic illness. Interns also have an
opportunity to learn a variety of specialized psychotherapeutic
techniques including hypnosis, relaxation training, and biofeedback, and
to actively participate in various treatment and patient education
programs based upon behavioral management principles (e.g., smoking
cessation, stress management, and pain management).

**Additional Training Rotations**

Interns are required to select two other training rotations from among
rotations that we broadly see as representing areas of psychological
specialization including consultation-liaison to inpatient units,
neuropsychology, substance abuse, and psychodiagnostic assessment.

***Consultation/Liaison.*** We currently offer several different options
for serving as a consultant in an inpatient setting and interns are
strongly encouraged to round out their training experience with an
inpatient-based option.

> ***Center for Rehabilitation and Extended Care (CREC).*** The CREC is
> located on the Martinez campus and is a 120-bed extended care and
> rehabilitation hospital comprising three units that are organized to
> provide sub-acute medical care, extended care, and specialized
> neuro-cognitive rehabilitation. The intern integrates into the CREC
> mental health consultation team, a multidisciplinary clinical team
> comprising two clinical psychologists, a neuropsychologist, and a
> psychiatrist. This team provides mental health diagnostic and
> intervention services to medical patients, and also serves to educate
> CREC staff on the inter-relationships among psychological conditions
> and medical care.
>
> Patients at the CREC are demographically heterogeneous as a whole, but
> this setting has units and services that afford interns an opportunity
> to gain experience with the medical and psychological problems
> associated with aging, and the mental health service needs of a
> medically ill geriatric population.
>
> ***U.C. Davis Medical Center Psychosomatic Medicine Service***. The
> Department of Psychiatry provides a consultation-liaison service at
> U.C. Davis Medical Center to provide psychiatric consultation and
> liaison to inpatient medical and surgical, services throughout the
> UCDMC. The U.C. Davis Medical Center (UCDMC) is 485-bed tertiary
> medical center located in Sacramento, serving the health needs of
> patients throughout Northern California. The goals of this service are
> to assist medical professionals by diagnosing and treating
> psychopathology and behavioral problems and by educating the medical
> team on the inter-relationships between illness and psychological
> functioning.
>
> Training and experience in the medical consultation-liaison is
> oriented to helping interns understand the complex inter-relationships
> between psychological processes and medical illnesses, and to develop
> skills in providing consultation, evaluation, and treatment in a
> medical setting. The rotation emphasizes the duties and functions of
> the psychological consultant in providing effective consultation as
> part of the comprehensive care plan for patients.
>
> ***Pediatric Consultation-Liaison.*** Interns may also choose a
> pediatric focused inpatient consultation-liaison experience through
> U.C. Davis Department of Psychiatry at the Shriners Hospital located
> on the UCDMC campus. Shriners Hospital provides services to children
> and adolescents with musculoskeletal problems and burns. The Shriner's
> Hospital provides opportunity for interns to work with culturally
> diverse children, adolescents, and families.

### *Other Elective Rotations.*

> ***Neuropsychology.*** VA NCHCS maintains an active neuropsychology
> consultation service and post-doctoral training program in conjunction
> with the Department of Neurology at U.C. Davis and its affiliated
> training sites, as well as with the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute
> at U.C. Berkeley. The internship experience draws on the educational
> and training opportunities associated with these programs.
>
> Inpatient and outpatient consultations encompass a broad array of
> psychiatric, neurological, neurosurgical, and neurobehavioral
> syndromes including dementia syndromes, traumatic brain injuries,
> cerebrovascular accidents, and memory disorders. In addition, training
> opportunities now exist within an innovative neuro-cognitive unit in
> the Center for Rehabilitation and Extended Care (CREC) at Martinez.
> This experience exposes interns to assessment and rehabilitative
> interventions with neurologically impaired patients.
>
> Training and experience on the neuropsychology rotation serves to
> enhance the intern\'s working knowledge of brain-behavior
> relationships, and to introduce interns to the major neurologic
> syndromes and their neurobehavioral sequelae. Interns learn to
> integrate neuropsychological findings with those of neuro-imaging and
> knowledge of neuropathology. Interns also develop preliminary
> competence in conceptualizing and conducting independent
> neuropsychological evaluations, and in effectively communicating
> findings to referral sources. Opportunities also exist for interns to
> participate in the various educational and training activities
> associated with our neuropsychology fellowship program, occurring on
> the Martinez campus, UC Davis Medical Center and U.C. Berkeley
> Neuroscience Institute. Among these experiences are specialized
> neurobehavioral and movement disorder clinics co-directed by neurology
> and neuropsychology faculty, behavioral neuroscience research
> conferences, neurology grand rounds, clinical case conferences and
> CT/MRI scan review teaching sessions.
>
> ***Substance Abuse.*** The Oakland Mental Health Clinic operates a
> comprehensive outpatient substance abuse program for veterans with
> substance use disorders. Many of the veterans also have co-occurring
> psychiatric disorders (such as depression, PTSD, and other anxiety
> disorders). The program includes an Opioid Treatment (Methadone and
> buprenorphine) Program. Therapeutic services include individual,
> group, couples, and family treatment.
>
> Training experiences on the substance abuse rotation provide interns
> with an opportunity to enhance their understanding of substance use
> disorders and the medical, social, and psychological issues that
> typically accompany them. The rotation also provides an opportunity to
> assess and treat co-occurring disorders. Interns function as treatment
> team members and are responsible for assessment, psychotherapy, and
> staff consultation. Cognitive-Behavioral and Motivational Interviewing
> interventions are emphasized. The rotation provides an opportunity to
> develop experience with the unique ways psychologists can contribute
> to a multidisciplinary substance abuse treatment team.
>
> ***Psychodiagnostic Assessment/Inpatient Psychiatry***. The County of
> Sacramento at the Mental Health Treatment Center across from the UCDMC
> campus operates a 100 bed inpatient psychiatry unit that serves as a
> teaching service for the Department of Psychiatry at UCDMC. Psychiatry
> residents, post-doctoral trainees in psychology, and medical students
> rotate there for training. Training experiences on this rotation
> emphasize psychodiagnostic assessment and differential diagnosis of
> complex psychiatric conditions. Interns heavily utilize the major
> cognitive and personality measures (especially MMPI-2 and Rorschach)
> and develop intermediate to advanced competencies with these
> instruments. Patients at the Mental Health Treatment Center are quite
> demographically heterogeneous representing the diversity of the
> greater Northern California area, and present challenges to
> traditional assessment because of language and cultural influences, as
> well as educational background.

***Division 40 (Neuropsychology) Training***. Our training model allows
a select number of interns to satisfy the internship requirements for
Division 40. In order to accomplish this, interns complete a
neuropsychology rotation in lieu of primary care/behavioral medicine.
Interns also complete a consultation-liaison rotation with some emphasis
on neuropsychological syndromes. We will have a separate match number
for the Division 40 Neuropsychology track. We expect to accept one
applicant into this track, but may modify this number before the ranking
deadline. Applicants are welcome to apply for both the General and the
Neuropsychology tracks. Also, interns in the general track are welcome
to complete the Neuropsychology rotation described above

There is a strong emphasis on didactic training in the internship
program. Among our many training opportunities are: a weekly
time-limited dynamic psychotherapy seminar, a twice-monthly assessment
case conference, and a monthly cultural diversity seminar. We also
conduct multiple-session seminars in areas such as ethics, professional
development, neuropsychology, behavioral medicine, PTSD, supervision,
CBT, Motivational Interviewing, and psychopharmacology.

## Interns also participate in training opportunities specific to their training rotations. These include in-service training, lectures and seminars, rounds, and case conferences. The San Francisco Bay Area is rich in educational resources and, when possible, we afford interns the opportunity to participate in workshops sponsored by organizations in the community, including medical schools, academic departments at nearby universities, and neighboring VA facilities.

## Requirements for Completion

Interns are continually evaluated on the seven competencies listed above
during each of the training experiences. Mastery ratings of specfic
skills related to these competencies are completed during midyear and
end-of-year evaluations. Interns must obtain adequate mastery levels in
order to complete the internship. Intern progress is assessed frequently
and interns are provided with continual feedback and (remediation if
needed) in order to help shape successful development.

## Facility and Training Resources

Interns are provided office space for all clinical rotations and
activities. Interns also have access to the computer network for
clinical and professional development needs. All medical record charting
in VA is done on the Computerized Patient Record System (CPRS) and
interns have dedicated computers to complete treatment documentation.
The training program maintains a \"shared drive\" on the network which
holds a large collection of clinically-relevant professional resources,
research articles, patient handouts, and other documents designed to
facilitate professional development. VA Northern California has an
excellent virtual medical library, and interns have access to online
databases and search help from the librarian. There are copies of
statistical software (SPSS) available for use on research projects.

## Administrative Policies and Procedures

Interns receive 13 paid vacation days and up to 13 paid sick days per
year. It should be noted that this leave accumulates over time (4 hours
per 2 week pay period for both vacation and sick leave), so interns
should not plan on taking an extended leave early in the training year.
In addition, up to 5 days per year can be used as \"professional
leave.\" This time can be used for dissertation work/research meetings,
conference attendance, and post-doc interviews but must be approved in
advance by the training director.

***Policy on Psychology Trainee Self Disclosure:*** Consistent with the
Ethical Code of the American Psychological Association, psychology
trainees in the VA Northern California Health Care System are generally
not required to self-disclose sensitive topics (e.g. sexual history,
history of abuse and neglect, psychological treatment or conditions, and
relationships with parents/family members, peers, and spouses or
significant others) during application to the program or during the
course of training. The only exception is in situations in which a
trainee\'s personal problems or condition could reasonably be judged to
put patient care, the trainee, or clinical and educational operations at
risk. This policy is designed to balance the importance of trust and
personal privacy in the supervisory relationship with the supervisor\'s
responsibility for care of the patient and for the safety of all staff
members and trainees. In cases when self disclosure of personal
information is necessary, the required disclosure is limited to
circumscribed information related to managing the specific clinical,
safety, or patient care concern.

***Privacy Policy:*** We will not collect any personal information about
you when you visit our website.

## Training Staff

***VA NCHCS Clinical Psychology Internship Program Core Faculty***

Below are core internship faculty biographies. There are a number of
additional staff members at each of the sites who also contribute to
training and supervision.

***Joel Schmidt, Ph.D.***

Director of Psychology Training

Staff Psychologist, Oakland Mental Health Clinic

Individual and group psychotherapy, Professional Development, CBT, brief
interventions, coping skills, substance abuse, Motivational
Interviewing,

Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, University of Arkansas, 1994.

***Donna Sorensen, Ph.D.***

Associate Director of Psychology Training; Director, Clinical
Neuropsychology Post-doctoral Fellowship Program; Associate Clinical
Professor, Department of Neurology, University of California, Davis

Neuropsychology; traumatic brain injury, subcortical dementia;
neuropsychology of HIV; substance abuse and PTSD; consultation-liaison;
forensic neuropsychology; inpatient psychiatry. Ph.D., Clinical
Psychology, University of Houston, 1992.

***Andreas R. Bollinger, Ph.D.***

Staff Psychologist, Oakland Mental Health and Substance Abuse Clinic;
Assistant Professor, Department of Counseling Psychology, Dominican
University of California

Individual and group psychotherapy, CBT, PTSD and traumatic stress,
coping skills, substance abuse/relapse prevention, Motivational
Interviewing, diagnostic interviewing, manual- and evidence-based
treatments

Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, Pacific Graduate School of Psychology, 1997.

***James A. Bourgeois, M.D.***

Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry

Chief, Psychosomatic Medicine Service

Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Consultation/liaison psychiatry, psychotherapy, personality disorders,
psychopharmacology, and medical/psychiatric education and
administration. M.D.

F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of
Health Sciences, 1989.

***Michael Cole, Ph.D.***

Staff Clinical Neuropsychologist at the Martinez Outpatient Mental
Health Clinic, Oakland Outpatient Neuropsychology Clinic, and Sacramento
Outpatient Clinic

Neuropsychological assessment of traumatic brain injury, dementia,
infectious disease, learning disability, and pre/post neurosurgical
intervention. Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, University of Florida, 2005.

***Matthew Cordova, Ph.D.***

Clinical Psychologist, Behavioral Medicine/Primary Care; Assistant
Professor, Pacific Graduate School of Psychology, Palo Alto, CA

Behavioral Medicine; primary care psychology; psychosocial oncology;
traumatic stress; positive psychology; interpersonal process. Ph.D.,
Clinical Psychology, University of Kentucky, 1999.

***Brent R. Ferm, Ph.D.***

Staff Psychologist, Martinez Outpatient Mental Health Clinic, Day
Treatment Center, and Center for Rehabilitation and Extended Care;
Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of
California at Davis

Time limited dynamic psychotherapy; psychoanalytic psychotherapy; adult
development; therapy with mid-life and older adults; couples therapy;
assessment. Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, Northwestern University, 1991.

***Sylvia Garma, Ph.D.***

Staff Psychologist, Shriners Hospital; Assistant Clinical Professor,
Department of Psychiatry, University of California Davis

Consultation-liaison; pediatric psychology; Post-traumatic stress
disorder; cultural diversity. Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, Syracuse
University, 1992.

***Rita Hargrave, M.D., F.A.P.A.***

Geriatric Psychiatrist, Martinez Outpatient Clinic; Consultant to UC
Davis Alzheimer\'s Disease Center; Assistant Professor, Department of
Psychiatry, University of California at Davis.

Geriatric psychiatry, cross-cultural; psychiatry, psychopharmacology,
consultation-liaison, neuropsychiatry. M.D. Howard University Medical
Center, 1979. Board Certified in Adult and Geriatric Psychiatry.

***James P. Howard, J.D., Ph.D.***

Staff Psychologist, Oakland Outpatient Clinic

Individual, Group, Substance Abuse/Recovery, Spirituality and
Psychotherapy, Multicultural Issues, Smoking Cessation, Substance Abuse,
Staff Support/Development.

J.D., University of Michigan 1976; Ph.D., Clinical Psychology,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1988

***Jeff Kixmiller, Ph.D.***

Director, Neurocognitive Rehabilitation Program, Center for
Rehabilitation and Extended Care, Martinez; Associate Professor,
Department of Neurology, University of California at Davis.

Cognitive rehabilitation in neurological dysfunction; ecological
validity of neuropsychological measures; functional assessment of
neurologically impaired patients; social skills training. Ph.D.,
Counseling Psychology, Ball State University, 1992.

***Nicole G. Miller, Ph.D.***

Staff Psychologist, Martinez Outpatient Clinic; Assistant Clinical
Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of California at Davis.

Psychopathology; dual diagnosis; medication compliance;
psychopharmacology; anger management; individual and group
psychotherapy; stress management; PTSD; cognitive-behavioral approaches
in psychotherapy. Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, California School of
Professional Psychology, Fresno, 1990.

***L. Matthews Moore, Ph.D.***

Director, Substance Abuse Treatment Services; Clinical Manager, Oakland
Mental Health and Substance Abuse Clinic.

Individual and group psychotherapy; chronic mental illness; substance
abuse; mental health management; AIDS/HIV; rehabilitation psychology;
psychosocial education; crisis intervention. Ph.D., Clinical Psychology,
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, 1993.

***James J. Muir, Ph.D.***

Clinical Psychologist, Martinez Outpatient Clinic, Center for
Rehabilitation and Extended Care, Martinez

Neuropsychology and assessment, cognitive rehabilitation in neurological
dysfunction, psychotherapy and behavioral management,
consultation-liason; traumatic brain injury, PTSD, adjustment to
disability, degenerative disorders of aging.

Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, Georgia State University, 2002

***Patrick M. Neer, Psy.D.***

Staff Psychologist, Martinez Outpatient Clinic

Individual psychoanalytic psychotherapy; group therapy; chronic mental
illness; supervision; anger management; interpersonal processes; mood
disorders.

Psy.D., Clinical Psychology, Baylor University, 1998.

***Ju Hui Park, Ph.D.***

Staff Psychologist, UC Davis Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral
Sciences

Interpersonal and psychodynamic psychotherapy, personality disorders,
attachment relationships, trauma, psychological assessment.

Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, University of Utah, 2004.

***Stacey Peerson, Ph.D.***

Staff psychologist, Asst Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry,
University of California Davis; Program Director for the post doctoral
clinical psychology fellowship program, lead psychologist at the
Sacramento County Mental Health Treatment Center (MERT unit), and Child
& Adolescent Psychiatry (CAPS) Clinic.

Assessment and treatment of abused and neglected children, parenting
domains and parental stress, perinatal substance abuse treatment and
supervision.

Ph.D. Clinical Psychology, UC Santa Barbara, 2001

***Robert Schneider, Psy.D.***

Staff Psychologist, Martinez Mental Health Clinic

Psychodynamic and interpersonal psychotherapy; integrative personality
assessment; combat PTSD; dual diagnosis.

Psy.D., Clinical Psychology, Baylor University, 2004

***Allan H. Solomon, Ph.D.***

Staff Psychologist, Oakland Mental Health Clinic and Center for
Rehabilitation and Extended Care, Martinez.

Individual psychotherapy using brief, analytic, Mastersonian,
hypno-analytic, and hypno-behavioral approaches; substance abuse;
consultation; medical psychology; marital, family, and group
psychotherapy.

Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, University of Montana, 1978.

## Trainees

Below is a list of recent trainee classes, the programs they came from,
and their professional activities after internship

***2007 Graduates***

University of S. Mississippi part time post doctoral fellowship/teaching

Washington State University VA psychologist position

Michigan State University psychologist position in a community agency

Brigham Young University re-specialization in Human Factors Program

Wright Institute post doctoral fellowship in clinical psychology

University of Kansas post doctoral fellowship in clinical psychology

***2006 Graduates***

Rutgers University post doctoral fellowship in clinical psychology

Michigan State University post doctoral fellowship in neuropsychology

U. California Berkeley combined clinical and research position on
research grant

U. Northern Illinois post doctoral fellowship in clinical psychology

Arizona State University post doctoral fellowship in clinical psychology

***2005 Graduates***

Temple University post doctoral fellowship in clinical psychology

Northwestern Univ. post doctoral fellowship in clinical psychology

Adelphi University post doctoral fellowship in clinical psychology

Rosalind Franklin School

of Medicine post doctoral fellowship in neuropsychology

University of Nebraska post doctoral fellowship in clinical psychology

## Local Information

The primary training sites for the internship program are in Oakland and
Martinez, two communities in the East Bay region of the San Francisco
Bay Area. U.C. Davis Medical Center is in Sacramento, the state capital,
located in California\'s Central Valley. The East Bay offers a vast
array of world class cultural and recreational opportunities,
comfortable weather, and a rich multicultural environment. Northern
California is home to Yosemite National Park, Lake Tahoe, the Sierra
Nevada Mountain Range, Pacific beaches, and the wine country of Sonoma
and Napa Counties. The cost of living in the region is high, but interns
have been able to find affordable housing in communities convenient to
the training sites. Recent interns have often elected to live in either
the Oakland/Berkeley area or the Walnut Creek/Martinez area.