Didactics

Internship Seminar – a weekly (Fridays at 1 pm) didactic focused on professional issues, ethics, preparing for postdoc applications, clinical supervision, and a monthly discussion of diversity topics.

Departmental Colloquium (First Friday of the month) – An examination of cross-cutting topics that apply to the many-faceted members of the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology. 

Previous topics include:

  • Suicide prevention
  • Science and trends
  • Rethinking P-values for replicative research
  • Discussion and guidelines
  • Adherence and self-management in pediatric epilepsy
  • From theory to intervention
  • Measurement Based Care: Transforming a good idea into everyday practice.

Education and Advocacy Colloquium (Third Friday of the month) – The Education and Advocacy Colloquium focuses on topics related to multiculturalism, cultural humility, personal and professional growth, and social justice. 

Previous topics include: 

  • What can we do when others can’t breathe?
  • A multidimensional town hall on social justice
  • Psychological first aid and COVID-19; Awake to woke to work
  • Building a race equity culture
  • Healthcare in translation: A discussion with Carma Bylund
  • At the crossroads of failure: A discussion on how failure interacts with personal identity and social norms

Area-Specific Seminars

Clinical Child and Pediatric Psychology Seminar: This weekly seminar series covers a wide range of topics for our clinical child and pediatric psychology trainees. Topics include clinical skill-building, professional development, ethics, and child-focused research. We regularly have invited speakers from outside disciplines. This seminar is attended by faculty and attendance is required for post-doctoral fellows, interns, and child area graduate students.

Med/Health Seminar:  This bi-monthly seminar focuses on clinical and research topics for our med/health trainees.  One monthly session is focused exclusively on interns and topics specific to them from getting oriented to applying to postdocs.  The other monthly meeting is an “all play” for all med/health trainees for a wide range of health psychology topics.