William James College

Location: Boston, Massachusetts

Contact Information:
Katherine King, PsyD.
drkateking@gmail.com

Director of Psychology Training: Shellee Robbins,PhD

Geropsychology Supervisor(s): Katherine King,PsyD

Website Address:
https://www.williamjames.edu/academics/clinical/psyd/index.cfm

Membership / Certification:

_X_ APA Accredited
___APPIC Member

Geropsychology Training Opportunities / Settings:
___ Outpatient Mental Health Clinic
___ Neuropsychology / Memory Clinic
___ Community Living Center
___ Home Based Health Care
___ Primary Care
___ Inpatient Geropsychiatry/Mental Health
___ Physical / Cognitive Rehabilitation
___ Caregiver Support Services
___ Hospice / Palliative Care
___ Telehealth / Telemedicine
___ Training in Supervision of Interns / Practicum Students
_X_ Other:  Field training occurs in all four years of our graduate program, followed by a full-time APA internship. Multiple sites involve working exclusively or partially with older adults. Students frequently train in Elder Services, Protective Services, Skilled Nursing Facilities, Veterans Administration, and more.

Format of Geropsychology Training:
_X_ Specialty Track in Geropsychology
___ Major Rotation
___  Minor Rotation
___ Opportunities to work with older adults included in other rotations

Faculty Clinical/Research Interests:

Strong focus on training to practice clinical geropsychology, e.g. psychotherapy, assessment, consulting.

Interests include serving under-served older adults, intersectional aging, creativity and the arts, aging in the family and community context, older couples, retirement, coping with medical illness, caregiving, grief, end of life. Also engaged in research exploring the geropsychology workforce shortage, death anxiety, and narrative medicine.

We have a strong social justice mission and seek to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion within our institution and the broader field of psychology. We welcome applicants with diverse identities and backgrounds, first generation scholars, adult learners, career changers, as well as ‘traditional’ applicants coming straight from undergrad psychology programs.

Faculty Bio: https://www.williamjames.edu/about/profiles/faculty/kathering-king.cfm