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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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