Post-doctoral Fellowship
Health Psychology Program
California Pacific Medical Center is one of the largest private, not-for-profit, academic medical centers in Northern California and is a Sutter Health affiliate. We are a tertiary referral center providing access to leading edge medicine while delivering the best possible personalized care. The Health Psychology Program provides consultation and liaison services to Radiation Oncology and Cardiac Rehabilitation, as well as inpatient consultation and liaison services to Palliative Care. The Health Psychology Program collaborates with medical staff and provides psychosocial support to patients and families coping with the effects of major medical illnesses.
Contact Information
Department of Psychiatry
2340 Clay Street, 7th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94115
415-600-3540
Kristine Ashe, Ph.D., Director of Health Psychology
ashek@sutterhealth.org.
Our Mission
Our mission is to serve the community by providing high quality, cost-effective health care in a compassionate and respectful environment, which is supported and stimulated by education and research.
Training Type
The Post-doctoral Health Psychology Fellowship Program includes training in:
Theoretical Orientation
The theoretical orientation of our supervisors are biopsychosocial, cognitive-behavioral, existential, and psychodynamic.
Patient Population
The clients and patients seen in the fellowship program are patients from California Pacific’s Oncology and Cardiology outpatient clinics, and Palliative Care inpatient service.
Health Psychology Staff
The staff consists of three licensed clinical psychologists, post-doctoral fellows, and delegated supervisors from the community.
Training and Education
Specialized training in health psychology is designed to develop clinical competence in the evaluation and treatment of cancer, cardiac, and palliative care patients. Training includes a health psychology seminars, individual and group supervisions, and participation in weekly multidisciplinary team meetings.The medical staff and psychosocial teams work collaboratively to provide coordinated care and to devise comprehensive treatment plans.
Responsibilities
As a principal member of multidisciplinary teams, post-doctoral fellows provide evaluation and brief clinical intervention to patients of Radiation Oncology, Cardiac Rehabilitation, and Palliative Care. Trainees are afforded the unique experience of working primarily with a wide ranging non-clinical population. A large proportion of time is spent conducting evaluations and delivering brief therapy services to patients and their spouses and family members as appropriate. Trainees facilitate weekly support groups, provide educational lectures for patients and staff, and contribute to program development. Opportunities exist to work with ongoing therapy cases on fee-for-service basis.
Prerequisites
Prerequisites include:
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