Clinical graduate students were strong representatives of the Department of Psychology at this year’s National Annual Convention of the Canadian Psychological Association held in early June in Victoria, BC.
The CMHR was proud to host a visit by Catherine Fife, MPP (Kitchener-ݮƵ). CMHR Executive Director, Dr. David Moscovitch, and CMHR Director, Dr. Ian Nicholson, were joined in hosting Ms. Fife by St. Joseph’s Health Care London’s Operational Stress Injury Clinic (OSIC) Coordinator, Bev Vanderheide, and OSI Psychologist, Dr. Shannon Gifford.
Dr. David Moscovitch, Centre for Mental Health Research Executive Director, and Dr. Susanna Reimer, a psychologist at the University of ݮƵ’s Counselling & Psychological Services, presented a very successful workshop at last week’s Canadian Association for Cognitive & Behavioural Therapies on “Imagery-based Interventions in CBT: Useful Tools for Enhancing Treatment of Social Anxiety (and Related Disorders)”.
The recent partnership between the Centre for Mental Health Research and the Parkwood Institute's Operational Stress Injury (OSI) Clinic at St. Joseph's Health Care, London has continued to be news in our region.
Two more rooms in the CMHR are now equipped with dual cameras, allowing for split-screen video recording of interactions during psychotherapy. This setup provides the much-needed capacity to capture both individuals face-on simultaneously.
In its final workshop for the year, the CMHR was proud to host Dr. Richard Zayed, a psychologist from the Child Parent Resource Institute (CPRI) in London Ontario and an Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Western University. He spoke to a full room of faculty and graduate students on “Attachment Theory and its Clinical Application”.
On Monday, April 4, 2016 the University of ݮƵ held the official opening ceremony of the Operational Stress Injury (OSI) service, expanding the Centre for Mental Health Service’s (CMHR) range of mental health care for the local community with a specialized assessment service for veterans, members of the Canadian Armed Forces and RCMP. The service was created by an important new partnership with Parkwood Institute’s Operational Stress Injury Clinic (OSIC) part of St. Joseph’s Health Care London (St. Joseph’s).
Once again, the CPA-accredited Clinical Psychology Program at the University of ݮƵ has matched its most senior doctoral students with some of the most prestigious residency programs in the country.
Anisha Varghese will be working in the Department of Psychology at BC Children’s Hospital, Ivana Lizdek will be working at the Edmonton Consortium Clinical Psychology Residency, and Derick Valadao will be working in the London Clinical Psychology Residency Consortium. All three will begin their year-long full-time clinical residencies in September.
On March 7, Dr. Ian Nicholson (CMHR Executive Director) and Ivana Lizdek (senior Clinical Psychology doctoral student pictured above) met with representatives of Health Canada. The representatives, led by Hillary Geller, Assistant Deputy Minister, Healthy Environments and Consumer Safety Branch were met as part of their tour in her new role as Champion to the University of ݮƵ for postsecondary recruitment. Ms. Geller and her team were here to learn how Health Canada can work with relevant faculties and departments of the University to support their continued recruitment efforts.