Welcome to the web site of the Department of Health Psychology
(DHP), a program of the School of Health Professions of the University
of Missouri-Columbia. We are truly dedicated to meeting the needs
of Missourians with disabilities by means of service, research
and training.
DHP is the sole provider of neuropsychological
and rehabilitation psychology services for the entire MU Health
Sciences Center and central Missouri. Department staff members
travel throughout Missouri to provide these services. The DHP
faculty includes seven of the 11 board certified rehabilitation
psychologists and neuropsychologists in Missouri.
DHP faculty members have received the following
recognitions:
The Department of Health Psychology is an active participant
in the Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental
and Related Disabilities training program funded by HRSA. The program provides
intensive interdisciplinary training for advanced graduate students
and post-doctoral fellows in the field of neurodevelopmental
and related disabilities. Psychology trainees dedicate one day
per week to working side-by-side with others from a range of
health disciplines, including pediatrics, nursing, occupational
therapy, physical therapy, speech/language pathology, audiology,
dentistry, nutrition, social work, and health management and
informatics. Family members are also included in the training
process.
The
Thompson Center for Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders at the University of Missouri-Columbia promotes research, teaching
and service innovations designed to improve the lives of children
with autism spectrum disorders and other neurological problems.
The Thompson Center was created on April 29, 2005, through the
philanthropy of William and Nancy Thompson. DHP Professor Janet
E. Farmer is director of the Thompson Center. For more information
on the Thompson Center, visit: http://thompsoncenter.missouri.edu/
The
University of Missouri's Wellness Initiative was
launched in 2004 in response to the health and wellness needs
of our employees and their families. With a Wellness Steering
Committee, a Wellness Work Team, and a Wellness Research Team,
the MU Wellness Program links employees, clinicians, researchers,
and administrators in a wide-ranging interdisciplinary
approach to promoting optimal health in the workplace. Beginning
among the staff of UM Health Care in 2004, health risk assessments
have become a key tool that will enable employees to access
health resources appropriate to their needs. For more
information on the UM Wellness Initiative, please go to http://prepro.umsystem.edu/ums/curators/wellness/. Dr.
Laura Schopp, Associate Professor of Health Psychology in the
School of Health Professions, Department of Health Psychology, manages
the UM
Wellness Program.
DHP
Chair Brick Johnstone was named a Fulbright Scholar and spent the fall 2004 semester working at the University
of Ireland-Galway. He taught at the only health psychology
master’s degree
program in Ireland and conducted research on people with disabilities
in rural Ireland in collaboration with the UI-G faculty and staff
from Ireland’s National Rehabilitation Hospital. He compared
rural disabilities in Missouri and Ireland, reviewed the effectiveness
of vocational rehabilitation programs, and international differences
between Missouri and Ireland. He also researched financial impacts
for people with brain injuries.
DHP is comprised of board certified neuropsychologists
and rehabilitation psychologists who provide a wide variety of
clinical services across the state of Missouri. At Rusk Rehabilitation
Center in Columbia, we provide inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation
psychology and neuropsychology services focused on treating individuals
with a history of traumatic brain injury, spinal cord and/or
other orthopedic injury, stroke, and general debilitation. The
DHP Pediatric and Adult Neuropsychology Clinics located at Ellis
Fischel Cancer Center in Columbia provide outpatient neuropsychological
assessment services for individuals with developmental and acquired
neurocognitive difficulties. Additionally, outreach neuropsychology
and rehabilitation psychology services are provided to individuals
in rural communities across the state by our travel to satellite
clinics and through the Missouri Telehealth Network. Our board
certified faculty located at Missouri Rehabilitation Center in
Mount Vernon provides inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation
psychology and neuropsychology services to individuals served
at this rural hospital as well. Across all sites, DHP services
are focused on helping individuals and their families adjust
to disabilities by assisting with the clarification of impairments,
the development of compensatory strategies, the process of coping
with residual difficulties, and the identification of appropriate
community resources.
In 2004, the DHP staff completed a Missouri
Traumatic Brain Injury Needs Assessment under contract
by the Missouri Head Injury Advisory Council. The assessment
was conducted to describe the breadth and depth of need among
persons with traumatic brain injury and their families in
Missouri. DHP faculty member Laura H Schopp, PhD, was Principal
Investigator of the study, DHP Chair Brick Johnstone, PhD,
was Co-Principal Investigator, and post-doctoral fellow John
Mahalik, PhD, was Project Manager. The assessment report
is available at: http://www.dhss.mo.gov/HIA-Council/hiac_needs_assessment.pdf
Staff offices and
outpatient clinics are located on the west end of the first
floor of Ellis Fischel Hospital in Columbia, Mo.
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