News & Notes

We are pleased to welcome our new graduate students for the 2007-2008 academic year.

Clinical Health Psychology Pro-Seminar

The Clinical Health Psychology Pro-Semiar is a weekly meeting in which students and faculty in the CHP concentration meet to discuss clinical and research issues, hear outside speakers, and plan concentration activities. We encourage undergraduate students working in CHP research groups to attend, and we warmly welcome all members of the Capstone and Tuscaloosa communities who have an interest an interest in health psychology or behavioral medicine. For more information, click here.

About the Clinical Health Psychology Concentration
Coordinators: Dr. Beverly Thorn, bthorn@bama.ua.edu, Dr. Jim Hamilton, jchamilt@bama.ua.edu

The Clinical Health Psychology training concentration is one of the four concentrations within the Ph.D. program in Clinical Psychology. Iis designed to prepare doctoral students for careers as scientists and scientist-practitioners in the areas of health psychology and behavioral medicine. In addition to the graduate core curriculum and the clinical psychology core curriculum, students specializing in clinical health psychology will have the opportunity to pursue coursework and practical training experiences that will prepare them to work in medical settings. The didactic and practical training experiences focus on the integration of psychosocial and biomedical processes. Complementing the core faculty in the clinical health psychology training concentration, students will also be trained by practicing health psychologists and physicians who are associate faculty members in our training concentration.

Practicum training experiences include assesment and intervention for medical patients seen through our Psychology Training Clinic; inpatient and outpatient experiences with faculty from the internal medicine department in the UA Medical School Family Practice Residency; and consultation-liaison training at a private internal medicine practice. New opportunities for research collaboration and training are being actively pursued.

In addition to the standard clinical health psychology curriculum, students may individualize their training experiences by taking courses or conducting research related to other concentrations in the Department. Crossover training with the clinical geropsychology concentration and the social psychology concentration are especially encouraged.