University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, Clinical Psychology Program (Emphasis on Geropsychology)

Contact Information:
Leilani Feliciano, Ph.D.
lfelicia@uccs.edu

Director of Psychology Training: Leilani Feliciano, Ph.D.

Geropsychology Supervisor(s): Daniel L. Segal, Ph.D.; Sara Honn Qualls, Ph.D.; Leilani Feliciano, Ph.D.; Molly Maxfield, Ph.D., Brandon Gavett, Ph.D., ABPP; Magdalene Lim, PsyD

Website Address:
https://www.uccs.edu/psych/

Membership / Certification:

_X__ APA Accredited
_X__ APPIC Member

Geropsychology Training Opportunities / Settings:
_X_ Outpatient Mental Health Clinic
_X_ Neuropsychology / Memory Clinic
___ Community Living Center
___  Home Based Health Care
_X_ Primary Care
___ Inpatient Geropsychiatry/Mental Health
___ Physical / Cognitive Rehabilitation
_X_ Caregiver Support Services
_X_ Hospice / Palliative Care
___ Telehealth / Telemedicine
___ Training in Supervision of Interns / Practicum Students
_X_ Other: Rocky Mountain PACE program (Program for All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly)

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:
Leilani Feliciano, Ph.D. – mental health and aging; behavioral gerontology; behavioral medicine; behavioral interventions for comorbid physical and mental health conditions (e.g., diabetes and depression; behavioral disturbances associated with dementia) in older adults; late life depression

Daniel Segal, Ph.D. – diagnostic and assessment issues in clinical psychology and geropsychology; suicide risk and resilience in later life; anxiety in later life; barriers to mental health services; the expression and impact of personality disorders across the lifespan

Sara Honn Qualls, Ph.D. – Mental health and aging; family caregiving; integrated healthcare; senior housing and wellness; technology and aging

Molly Maxfield, Ph.D. – Social cognition and aging; dementia worry; terror management and aging

Brandon Gavett, Ph.D. – Clinical neuropsychology; cognitive aging; advanced psychometric methods (including item response theory and other approaches to latent variable modeling); Alzheimer’s disease; cross-cultural neuropsychology; forensic neuropsychology